Animator, Work From Home
This is a full-time animation position, done entirely from home, paying $65,000 a year. The company is open to candidates anywhere, so there's no relocation involved and no office to report to, ever.
The animator on this team turns scripts, storyboards, and rough creative direction into finished motion. Some weeks that means short explainer videos for a client's product launch; other weeks it's character work for a mobile app or a batch of social clips that need to land fast and look clean. The work moves between styles often enough that a portfolio showing range tends to stand out more than one showing depth in a single niche.
What You'll Be Doing
- Build 2D or 3D animated sequences from scripts, storyboards, or reference footage provided by the creative lead
- Storyboard new sequences before animation begins, so the pacing and shot choices are agreed on early
- Revise finished or in-progress animations based on feedback from creative directors, producers, or clients
- Maintain consistency in character rigs, color, and motion style across a project so scenes cut together cleanly
- Export and format final assets to the specs each platform requires, whether that's a broadcast deliverable or a vertical video for social
Feedback cycles run on a normal schedule, not an urgent one, but they do happen often. A given piece might go through three or four rounds of notes before it ships, and being able to take direction without losing the original intent of a scene matters more here than having a signature style you defend.
Most projects come in through the same intake process: a creative brief lands from the account team, a kickoff note goes out with references and tone examples, and the animator has a rough cut ready within the first few days for an early gut check. That early check saves a lot of rework later, since it's much cheaper to fix a pacing problem in a rough blocking pass than after the piece is fully rendered and polished. Clients occasionally send reference videos as a starting point, and part of the job is translating that reference into something original rather than copying it outright.
Project variety is one of the more genuine perks of the role. A single month might include a two-minute explainer for a fintech client, a set of looping social clips for a food brand, and a handful of onboarding animations for a software product. Anyone who gets bored animating the same style of content over and over tends to find that useful, though it does mean re-learning a client's visual language every few weeks rather than settling into one long-running show.
What You'll Need
- Working proficiency in Adobe After Effects
- Experience with Blender or Maya for anything requiring 3D
- Solid grounding in animation principles: timing, weight, follow-through, the basics that make motion read as believable
- Comfort storyboarding a sequence from a script or brief, not just animating one someone else planned
Nice to have, though not required: After Effects plugin experience (Duik or similar rigging tools), motion graphics work alongside character animation, or prior experience animating for both broadcast and social in the same role. None of these will disqualify someone who doesn't have them, but they do shorten the ramp-up time.
Education and Experience
A bachelor's degree is the baseline for this role, typically in animation, film, or a closely related field. What matters more in practice is the demo reel; a strong one from a less traditional academic background will still get a serious look. Beyond the degree, the team is looking for at least 18 months of animation experience, whether that came from an agency, an in-house studio job, or a steady run of freelance projects. A demo reel showing 2D or 3D work is expected alongside the application either way.
Naukri Mitra lists this one as fully remote with flexible hours, which in practice means the team schedules a handful of overlapping hours each week for review calls and leaves the rest open.
Compensation and Benefits
- Health insurance for full-time staff
- Paid time off, accrued from the start date rather than after a waiting period
- Remote-work flexibility, including the option to shift daily hours around the weekly review calls
- A yearly software stipend toward licenses or plugins used for the job
Freelance and project-based arrangements come up from time to time on the animation side of the business, too, so candidates who'd rather work contract-to-contract rather than full-time are welcome to say so during the initial conversation.
Raises and rate reviews for full-time animators happen annually, tied to a mix of reel growth and the complexity of projects taken on over the year. Someone who moves from mostly 2D motion graphics into 3D character work, for instance, is usually reviewed for a rate adjustment sooner than the standard cycle. There's no formal ladder of titles beyond this role right now, so growth here looks more like expanding scope and rate than climbing a title chart.
How This Role Actually Runs Day to Day
New scenes usually start as a written brief and rough storyboard from the creative lead. From there, the animator blocks out timing, gets an early check before investing hours into polish, then finishes the sequence and sends it back for notes. Deadlines are real but not brutal; most projects run on a two- to three-week cycle, with the occasional shorter turnaround for social content that needs to go out on a specific date. Some stretches are quiet, and some are packed, depending on what clients have in the pipeline that month, and the schedule reflects that rather than pretending output is even week-to-week.
Because the whole team works remotely, most coordination happens through recorded notes and a shared project board rather than constant messaging. People who do well here tend to be comfortable working independently for long stretches and then engaging fully during review calls, rather than needing frequent check-ins to stay on track.
Applying
Include a demo reel with the application; it's the single most useful thing a reviewer looks at, more than the resume itself. If the reel mixes styles, a short note on which pieces were solo work and which were team projects helps the hiring team read it accurately. The $65,000 salary listed here is the actual figure for the role, not a placeholder range, and it applies whether the successful candidate is based in the same city as the studio or on the other side of the world.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and shortlisted candidates are usually contacted within two weeks. There's no cover letter requirement, just the reel, a resume, and a note on availability to start.
