Description:
Retina is a multi-award-winning global advertising, marketing communications and technology services company - and both 2020 & 2021 ANA B2B Agency of the Year and The Drum's 2020 Martech Agency of the Year. Our aim is to enable our clients, empower our teams, and always push boundaries. We’re seeking a video artist (animator and editor) to join our rapidly growing team in Scotland. You'll be a strong conceptual thinker with outstanding creative abilities and a deep knowledge of all areas of video production, videography, editing, animating, sound, and 3D.
Who we’re looking for:
- You are a team player and fierce collaborator, though can also work independently
- You are proactive and self-directed
- You maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends
- You cultivate relationships with production partners and others for production support
- You take ownership of the projects assigned to you and ensuring they meet agreed deadlines, and always to a market-leading standard
What you’ll be doing:
- Continually maintaining and improving the standard of motion graphics, animation and editing and created at Retina
- Acting as the go-to person for any queries, questions or advice related to anything video, audio or animation related
- Creating dynamic animations and motion graphics
- Brainstorming ideas and concepts for breakthrough video and audio content
- Maintaining expertise in videography and audio production
- Preparing concept treatments, storyboards and animatics/prototypes
- Working closely with creative colleagues and third-parties – and maintaining a database of reliable equipment and crew
- Video and image sourcing
- Demonstrating a strong attention to detail and process
- Helping create production estimates and managing production budgets, schedules and delivery
Qualifications:
- 2-5 years of video production/animation experience in agency, in-house setting or production company
- Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite and Editing/Graphics Software (Premiere, AfterEffects); fluency in Microsoft Office/Apple software (Word, PowerPoint, Keynote)
- 3D experience a huge plus – Cinema 4D or Maya
- University degree (undergraduate level) in Communications, design or another creatively or culturally interesting field and/or completion of an ad/design school program
- Experience working in B2B or business marketing in complex categories a plus