USAPraetorium Media
3D Map Animator
3 дн. назад
1200–1500 USD / monthUSAMiddleRemote
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Praetorium Media is looking for a 3D map animator to join their YouTube channel The Hidden States to create documentary animations focusing on America's geography and history.
About the company
- Praetorium Media is the employer.
- The Hidden States is one of the fastest-growing American geography channels on YouTube.
- In the first four months: 21,000+ subscribers and 2.8 million views from only 20 videos.
About the product
- The Hidden States is a faceless channel making documentaries about America's forgotten regions — the history, the disasters, and the things locals don't talk about.
- The maps are integral to the films, not just decoration.
- The channel's films feature 3D map animations built on real geographic data with camera work across terrain, showing floods, distances, and water rising over towns.
Responsibilities
- Animating 3D maps built on real geographic data — regions drawn along their actual borders.
- Camera work across terrain — travelling over land, drawing boundaries, lighting a region as it's revealed.
- Putting history onto the ground where it happened — floods tracing a valley, distances measured across a route, water rising over a town.
- Create animations from a written shot-by-shot storyboard before starting work with minimal revisions.
- Complete a paid test sample of around 20 seconds of animation based on a storyboard.
Requirements
- Animate from real boundary data, not by tracing shapes by eye.
- Experience with After Effects + GEOlayers, Blender, Cinema 4D or Google Earth Studio.
- One map or diagram sequence in your portfolio counts for more than a full showreel.
Conditions
- Rate: $4-8 per minute depending on skill level plus monthly bonuses for milestones reached.
- Salary: $1200 - $1500 per month possible after working together for 2 months, not mandatory.
- Flexible schedule with clear deadlines.
- Bonuses for viral videos.
- Direct access to the founder without agency layers or ticket queues.
- A written shot-by-shot storyboard is provided for guidance.
How to apply
- After submitting the form, if experience fits, resources to build a short test sample are provided.
- Payment: $50 on a completed test sample that meets the brief.
- Deadline for test assignment: 2 days.