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Hire a Motion Designer.

Animations, explainers and UI motion, made to brief.

Also called: Motion Graphics Designer, Motion Graphics Artist, After Effects Animator

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • SaaS & tech
  • Agencies
  • E-commerce
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Motion Designer gets doneSample day
  • Turns a brief into a motion concept, styleframes and a timed animaticConcept & pre-production
  • Animates 60-120 second explainers in After EffectsAnimation production
  • Animates UI flows from Figma for product marketingProduct & UI motion
  • Syncs animation to voiceover, music and SFXFinishing & handoffDoing
In your tools
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Figma

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Motion Designer£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns an explainer or ad set from script to final.

  • 60-90 second explainer
  • Animated ad sets with variants
  • Lottie icon and loader packs

2-4 years producing explainers, ads or brand motion.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Motion Designer

Tasks

  • Concept & pre-production

    • Turns a brief into a motion concept, styleframes and a timed animatic
    • Adapts scripts with the copywriter
    • Prepares Illustrator, Figma and Photoshop artwork for animation

  • Animation production

    • Animates 60-120 second explainers in After Effects
    • Creates logo animations and brand stings with sound
    • Produces animated social ads in 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1 with variants
    • Builds kinetic typography sequences synced to voiceover or music
    • Adds motion to pitch decks and presentations

  • Product & UI motion

    • Animates UI flows from Figma for product marketing
    • Builds Lottie and Rive animations for web and apps

  • Finishing & handoff

    • Syncs animation to voiceover, music and SFX
    • Renders and optimises exports
    • Builds reusable toolkits and document motion guidelines for the brand

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English and brief interpretationAll levels20 min
  2. After Effects tool testAll levels60 min
  3. Explainer segment work sampleAll levels4 hrs
  4. Lottie and UI animation testIntermediate and up60 min
  5. Portfolio review with process breakdownsIntermediate and up45 min
  6. Creative direction scenarioExpert and Specialist45 min

One score on every profileSample shown

86%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

Work by our Studio makers

See all the work
  • The Cloudo wordmark types in on navy, then the cloud mark appears beside it.
  • A pale blue tile with a navy oval and the words Yummy starts today.
  • The Emoil mark assembles from four white shapes on black.
  • The Eros wordmark and its striped mark in white on black.
  • Green Cointo marks slide in on black, labelled Sending money, Blockchain and Receiving.
  • The Cointo wordmark with its green arrow mark on black.
  • The letters N and F in square brackets move apart and back together on pale blue.
  • The Virtua wordmark with its blue mark on white.
  • A pattern of small line icons switches its ground from brown to cream to lime.
  • The Gumi wordmark in black serif type on cream.
  • Big numbers and letters flash over stripes in green, blue, red and pink.
  • The Oasis wordmark in white on bright blue.

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Motion Designer is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Concept & pre-production, animation production, product & ui motion and finishing & handoff, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English and brief interpretation, after Effects tool test and explainer segment work sample. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Motion Designer works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Motion Designer works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Motion Designer owns an explainer or ad set from script to final. An Expert Motion Designer owns motion outcomes for a brand or product and handles stakeholders directly. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Motion Designer is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Adobe After Effects and Adobe Illustrator, before you meet them.

In week one: access set up: Slack, Drive or Dropbox, Figma, Frame.io and the project tracker; software and plugins confirmed; and SOP walkthrough: project naming. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Motion Graphics Designer, Motion Graphics Artist and After Effects Animator. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

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