2D anime style animator. Mostly animal-humanoids.

You will be part of a 3-4 person animation team working directly with me.

General Role & Responsibilities

A 2D Animator works through a three-stage process (pre-production, production and post-production) to create a sequence.

During the pre-production stage they write the story, design characters, create a storyboard, choose a design style, and prepare the backgrounds on which the action will occur. The voice-overs are then recorded by actors based on the dialogue in the script. 

In the production stage, the animators pull together all the elements to start animating the scenes. This includes initially animating rough sketches and then refining them to line drawings; layering the scenes against the backgrounds; matching the character visuals to the recorded dialogue; and compositing to final render.

At the post-production stage Animators will do a final visual clean up, assist with mixing sound effects and music, integrating visual effects, and render all the elements together to create the finished work.

• Liaising with writers, directors, clients regarding the style, method and execution of the animation to be produced


• Developing storyboards based on the script


• Preparing presentations of rough sketches for clients


• Creating models, drawings and illustrations


• Designing frames and characters


• Choosing color palettes, style and general look of animation


• Establishing artwork for the backgrounds and layouts


• Setting up exposure sheets, divided into actions and timing, dialogues and music, animation layers, backgrounds, view perspective


• Drawing rough sketches and animate 


• Illustrating key frames and producing inbetweening


• Inking


• Coloring


• Clean ups


• Integrating images, characters, etc into background graphics


• Syncing visuals with audio and voiceover tracks


• Preparing all animation elements for compositing, including delivering in set formats


• Enhancing animation with special effects at post-production stage