Job Description
Element Animation are hiring a Freelance Story Artist!
Element Animation are a small but mighty team of artists and weirdos with a passion for creating hilariously entertaining videos and content. Not only do they create a wide range of content for their huge audience over on YouTube but also for commercial projects, global events, and basically anywhere else that will let them loose with their IP.
About the Job:
They’re on the lookout for a Story Artist who understands their shared delirium and wants to contribute to it.
As a Story Artist, you’ll help bring their fever dreams to life: setting the scene, finding the rhythm, and making sure every joke lands. Teaming up with directors, writers, and their wider creative crew, you’ll turn their wild ideas into clear, engaging storyboards and animatics that take the adventure from concept to screen. You’ll also lend your design eye to the graphics that help their content stand out. If this hasn’t scared you away yet, they would love to hear from you!
This role is Freelance and Fully Remote. Applicants must be based within the UK or Europe.
Key Responsibilities
- Interpret scripts, story outlines, and creative briefs to develop engaging visual sequences.
- Create storyboards that communicate action, emotion, character performance, camera angles, and scene composition.
- Pitch gags and visual ideas that help shape the project. We want your creativity!
- Establish clear visual storytelling, pacing, timing, and continuity between shots.
- Build animatics from your storyboards, timing shots to dialogue, music, and sound so the pacing and gags land.
- Collaborate with directors, writers, designers, and animators to develop and refine ideas.
- Revise storyboards in response to creative feedback and production requirements.
- Maintain consistency in character design, environments, and style across projects.
- Contribute to story development, visual problem-solving, and the overall creative direction of projects.
- Ensure storyboards align with the project’s artistic style, tone, and production goals.
- Create digital graphic design assets as needed, such as YouTube thumbnails, title cards, social media graphics, and pitch materials.
Desirable Skills
- Experience in 2D or 3D animation, television, feature films, commercials, or other screen-based productions.
- Familiarity with storyboard and digital drawing software such as Storyboard Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, or equivalent tools.
- Familiarity with comedic editing, short-form storytelling, or sketch content.
- Basic skills with 3D tools such as Maya, Blender, or Cinema 4D.
How to Apply
Please apply by emailing apply@elementanimation.com, and include:
- Your storyboard portfolio (especially comedic work!).
- Clips of animatics you have created or contributed to.
- A few examples of your graphic design work.
- A quick note on your availability, rates, and preferred tools.
- A short paragraph about yourself. What do you enjoy outside of work? What kind of projects excite you?
If you have applied to thewm before, please don’t hesitate to apply again for this role. If you have any questions before applying, just ask via the email above.
Requirements
- A strong portfolio demonstrating storyboard work, visual storytelling, and sequential art, with a focus on clarity and humour.
- A good understanding of comedy, expressions, staging, and timing.
- A solid understanding of composition, perspective, staging, camera language, and cinematic techniques.
- A strong sense of depth, perspective, and spatial logic.
- Excellent drawing skills, and the ability to draw fast and loose when needed while still communicating ideas clearly.
- A keen sense of timing, pacing, acting, and character expression.
- Proven experience creating animatics, with a strong feel for editing and how a sequence plays in motion.
- The ability to interpret scripts and translate them into effective visual sequences.
- Solid digital graphic design skills, with a good eye for layout, typography, and colour.
- Confidence to work collaboratively in a live writers' room.
- The ability to work independently and collaboratively, manage deadlines, and respond positively to feedback, while being proactive with ideas of your own.
- Effective communication, collaboration, and time-management skills.
Offer includes
- 100% remote work.
- Flexible hours.
- Creative freedom to contribute your ideas and style.
- A chance to work on fun, character-driven projects with a comedic twist.
- A supportive, creative team that values your input.
- Your work will be seen by millions of people around the world.
- Potential for a long-term role with ongoing projects.
Salary
Based on interview results
