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Animator / Motion Designer

Contract • Remote

This is Tortilla. She's the mascot for the Down Dog app. Over the years, we've turned Down Dog into a monument to Tortilla through various icons:

While these static images add personality to our app, we'd like to bring Tortilla to life within the app using animations. That's where you come in!

We're looking for someone curious, with great attention to detail, who cares about making beautiful things and resonates with our mission of providing the best at-home yoga experience.

We want 2D animations (not 3D) in the Lottie format that match the style of the stills we already have in the app. Here are some animation ideas we'd love to explore:

Tortilla walking in a circle, then lying down for a nap (with snoring)
Tortilla sneezing and shaking afterwards
Tortilla doing a vinyasa
Tortilla wagging her tail, then doing a backflip
Tortilla chasing a stick thrown from off screen

You'll be a great fit if you have:

A portfolio of 2D character animation
Experience delivering Lottie animations that play smoothly in mobile apps
The ability to animate from our existing vector artwork and stay true to its style

When you apply, please include a link to your portfolio.

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Don't see a fit? We'd still love to hear from you.

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Work at Down Dog

We want Down Dog to be the ideal place for extremely smart, productive, and self-motivated people. This is how we believe we can make that happen:

We aim to be as small as possible at every stage
We each work under our own ideal conditions
We don't set deadlines, and we won't manage you
We only hire individual contributors
We move quickly
We minimize blocking
We iterate
We bail
We build our own tools
We don't make decisions by committee
We create more value than we capture

Learn more about our values here.

Impact

Here's what we've accomplished with a team of 5 people full time:

We've had 240+ million practices completed across 6 different apps (on iOS, Android, and web).
Since August 2019, we've given away 200,000+ years worth of free memberships to users who can't afford it.
In response to COVID-19, we made our apps completely free during the worst of the lockdowns in March and April. Additionally, we've gave free access to 1,000,000 students, teachers, and front line healthcare workers during the pandemic.