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Freelance Art Director
BigStar Motion Design (BGSTR) is looking for a talented and hands-on Freelance Art Director to help shape and elevate our creative vision. This role is a key part of our growing team, you’ll work alongside BGSTR Creative Directors and Producers to shape the creative vision, blending artistic leadership with technical expertise to push the boundaries of motion design. As an Art Director at BGSTR, you’ll take a lead role in art direction setting and maintaining standards for projects across all facets of our business. You should have an entrepreneurial mindset, exceptional client communication skills, and the ability to develop and execute concepts from ideation through final delivery. Above all, you must have a passion for creating visually stunning, cutting-edge work—and be ready to do so in a highly hands-on capacity.
This is a full-time freelance role and will require working onsite in our New York studio. Our office operates on a hybrid work model - work from home Fridays, in office Mondays - Thursdays.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creative process throughout the entire project cycle—from initial client brief and ideation to design and animation.
- Setting & Maintaining Standards while working closely with Creative Directors and Producers for the duration of multiple projects.
- Work alongside the artist team to develop tools, workflows, and methodologies that ensure best practices and deliver the highest-quality results.
- Partner with producers on project management, offering feedback on production schedules, crew allocation, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
- Hands-on execution of style frames, concept development, pitches, and final project delivery.
- Provide creative leadership and problem-solving insights for complex and high-profile projects.
Qualifications
- 5+ years experience in Design and Motion Graphics for film and commercials and broadcast clients.
- Being able to multitask and run multiple projects and teams. To ensure that each project is running smoothly and efficiently.
- Superior client management skills.
- An extensive portfolio of your own creative work, including directing experience, if applicable.
- Passion and a broad knowledge of the Design, Motion Graphics, and VFX industries with an eye for future developments and challenges.
- Demonstrated excellent leadership skills across all levels, strong communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong knowledge of Design, Animation, CG, VFX, and shot production.
- Ability to remain calm and confident in a fast-paced environment whilst juggling multiple projects.
- Ability to work within and inspire a team and also under your own initiative.
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, both on a technical and creative basis.
- Strong time management & organization skills.
- Expert knowledge of the Adobe Suite and Cinema 4D.
A little about us
We’re more than just a design shop or motion studio.
̸ Studio
An award-winning creative studio with a singular focus: telling the bigger story.
̸ Work
A multidisciplinary blend of design, animation and live action that elevates brands, campaigns, films and series.
̸ What we do
We bring stories to life. We create icons. We connect to people.
̸ Telling the bigger story
We're an award-winning group of artists and makers who love nothing more than creating something iconic.
Most of the time, we let our work do the talking. But we're also not afraid to talk about how our work can elevate yours. How we can take stories and make them into something bigger. Something that is going to resonate with your audience and make people stop and take notice. Whether it's through design, motion graphics or live action content, we do it all in service of telling the bigger story.
