Animation & motion graphics · Adelaide SA · 4+ yrs
A maker at heart, I construct visual identities, brand stories, motion graphics, social media strategies for the creative and ambitious.
I have multifaceted experience working as a digital designer in one of Australia's top creative production agencies, while simultaneously running my freelance design business. I have experience across boutique brand design all the way through national retail brands.
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Animation & motion graphics · Hobart TAS · 15+ yrs
Hobart-based creative working across cinematography, video editing, photography, graphic design and visual art. With a background in design, advertising and filmmaking, I bring a considered visual approach, technical expertise and a strong attention to detail to every project. My work spans commercial, editorial, screen and artistic projects, with a focus on thoughtful visual storytelling and finding the right creative solution for each brief.
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I'm an event designer specialising in 3D renders, production design and creative content for live, hybrid and virtual events. I design spaces that look stunning in a render and actually work on the day. Beyond the 3D, I handle the full visual layer of an event: presentation design, motion graphics and animated screen content, event branding, social media and landing pages .
Animation & motion graphics in Adelaide, questions
Most gigs run in three beats: a script and storyboard so you both agree what happens before anyone animates, the design of the frames and characters, then the animation, sound and final exports. An explainer might include a voiceover and music; a logo sting or animated social post is shorter and skips the script. Be clear up front whether you need the writing and design done too, or just the animation from assets you already have, because it changes the bid.
Motion graphics is moving design: animated text, logos, icons, charts and shapes, the stuff that makes an explainer or a social post feel alive. Animation in the fuller sense usually means characters and storytelling, 2D or 3D, with more craft and time behind it. Plenty of freelancers do both, but a kinetic-type promo and a character-led short are different jobs, so match the freelancer to the one you actually need.
2D is flat, faster to produce and great for explainers, icons, kinetic type and most social content. 3D adds depth and realism, think product renders, spinning packaging or a more cinematic feel, and it costs more and takes longer because of modelling and rendering. For most small business jobs 2D does everything you need. Reach for 3D when the product itself is the hero and you want to show it from every angle.
A short animated logo or a simple social post can turn around in a few days to a week. A 60 to 90 second explainer with a script, storyboard, custom design and voiceover usually runs 3 to 6 weeks, since each stage has to be signed off before the next. 3D work takes longer again. The biggest delay is approving the script and storyboard, so lock those early because changes after animation starts are slow and pricey.
Because changes are cheap on paper and expensive on screen. Reworking a storyboard frame takes minutes; re-animating a finished scene can take days. A good freelancer won't touch the animation until you've signed off the script and the storyboard, so you know exactly what you're getting. Treat the storyboard as the real decision point, not the first cut.
Canva and CapCut handle simple animated text and basic transitions, and for a quick social post that's plenty. Where a freelancer earns their keep is the harder stuff: custom characters, smooth timing, a logo animation that feels considered, and the kind of work built in After Effects that templates can't fake. AI can generate clips fast, but it won't nail your brand, your message or the polish a paying audience notices. For anything that represents the business, that craft is the difference.
Hook people in the first second, build it to read with the sound off, and cut it for vertical. The numbers are brutal: average watch time on Meta is 1 to 2 seconds, and about 95% of people don't make it past 1.5 seconds. So open on the payoff, burn in captions or on-screen text, and keep it short. Kinetic type is great for this because the message lands even on mute.
The final video exported in every format and aspect ratio you need: 16:9 for YouTube and web, 9:16 for reels and stories, 1:1 for the feed, plus a captioned version since most social plays muted. If you want a transparent version of an animated logo (for example a ProRes or PNG sequence with alpha) so you can drop it onto other videos, ask for that. The editable project file (the After Effects source) isn't always included, so write it into the gig if you'll want future edits.
In Adelaide, a short animated logo or simple motion graphics post often runs $300 to $900. A custom 60 to 90 second 2D explainer with script, design and voiceover typically lands between $2,000 and $6,000, and 3D or character animation goes higher again. Price tracks length, the style, how custom the design is, and whether voiceover and sound are part of the gig.
Hourly rates for motion work run about $70 to $190. A junior nearer $70 can animate to an existing style frame or template, which suits social cutdowns and simple logo stings. Most motion gigs land in the middle of the band, a motion designer handling design and animation together. Hourly rates are only half the picture here, though: most animation is quoted per finished minute or per gig, because the work is front-loaded into design and storyboarding before anything moves. Always compare quotes on the finished deliverable, not the rate.
Start with the showreel and match the style to what you want, since animators specialise hard, a 3D product artist and a 2D explainer animator are different people. Look for work in your style and ideally your industry, read their verified reviews on Unjumble, and confirm the deliverables, the formats and how many revision rounds are included. A quick chat about the concept tells you whether they get the brief.
Post an animation gig in 60 seconds. Describe the work, set your budget and timeframe, and choose whether it's time-based or outcome-based. Local freelancers send a bid with a quote, you compare their profiles, showreels and verified reviews, then pick the one that fits. Posting a gig is free. When you accept a bid, each stage is the freelancer's price, plus GST if they're registered, plus our 5% platform fee (worked out on the price before GST, GST included). A $1,000 stage from a GST-registered freelancer comes to $1,150.
Every gig runs on a payment schedule you both agree on up front, and every payment runs through Stripe. On an outcome-based gig the stages are often the storyboard and then the final animation. Each one is charged before the work starts and held by Unjumble until sign-off, or until it pays out on its own 14 days after it's submitted. On a time-based gig you're charged for each month as it starts, and it pays out when the next month starts unless you raise an issue.
