Hire the best freelance animators available

YunoJuno is a leading all-one-platform to find, hire, manage and pay elite and vetted freelancers. Working with global brands, we’ll find the best animators for your project with just a few clicks.

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Vetted freelancers on the network

150,000+

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Countries with compliant freelancer payments

165+

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From signed brief to signed contract

<24 hrs

Work with the top & vetted animators

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Why hire an experienced freelance animator?

A key benefit of hiring a freelance animator is the wealth of experience they command across many aspects of animation. This can range from 2D animation, 3D animation, motion graphics, stop motion and Cel animation. Animators gain that breadth of creative knowledge as a natural result of working with multiple clients across various industries.

How hiring animators through YunoJuno works

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Create your project brief

Specify your project brief with a few clicks and get matched instantly.
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Find the best freelancer

Select from a pool of 150,000+ vetted freelancers, available remote or on-site.
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Manage contracts and payments

Easily manage all payments, contracts and communication through YunoJuno.

What does a animator freelancer do?

Designing complex graphics and animation, animators use independent judgement, creativity, and computer equipment to create special effects, animation, or other visual images. Their responsibilities typically include:

Liaising with clients, developing animation from concepts
Stroyboard creation
Sketching
Developing the timing and pace of the movements of a character to object
Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional images depicting objects in motion or illustrating a process, using computer animation or modeling programs.
Using technical software packages, such as Flash, 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave, Softimage and Cinema 4D

Manage beyond the hire

Finding the right contractor is only the first step. YunoJuno gives your team the tools to manage your external workforce compliantly, whether hiring one contractor or running a program across your company.

Onboarding

Bring new or existing developers onto the platform quickly.

Worker classification

Every engagement is assessed for worker status.

Contracts, including IP assignement

Create, send and store contracts.

Timesheets & approvals

Approve hours or milestones through a simple workflow.

Payments

Pay developers from one supplier, tax deducted at source where required.

Reporting & spend visibility

See who you're engaging, where, and at what cost across engineering.

Enterprise teams already seeing results

77%
reduction in workforce
costs
Global CPG · enterprise contingent workforce program across multiple regions

"YunoJuno is a seamless experience and takes a lot of the stress away. Itreally helps from an agility and productivity perspective, quickly answering the business needs and helping to create a much more diverse and output-focused team. The quick payment of freelancers is a game changer — we have managed to reduce time to hire from a week to a couple of hours."

75%
reduction in time to hire + full spend visibility
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Global imaging and technology · creative and technical contractor program

"There were a few critical results for us. The obvious one was keepingeverything housed in one place — payments and keeping track of monthly spending. Perhaps more importantly, we were able to build up a bulletproof directory of talent. This has been super helpful for us as a team and as a business, across our regions."


Frequently asked questions

Animation is a method in which figures are manipulated to give the illusion they are moving.

There are several reasons why now might be the time to hire an animator. This includes:
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Time — You will have someone dedicated to creating your animation, to an exceptional standard, whilst giving you time to focus on other areas of the business.
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Skills/knowledge — If you have a visual story to tell, animators are able to help. By hiring a professional animator, you're able to get customised animation that fits your business and your goals. Freelancers have built up their experience and skills through various projects, which means you can leverage this for your own project.
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Ideas — Due to their diverse background, freelancers are able to bring new ideas to the table. Not only can they help give a fresh perspective on your business with their knowledge and expertise, they can also help develop animation that can help improve your customer experience.

Results driven —  As freelancers build their portfolio from reputation and word of mouth, it is important that they build and nurture their relationships. Due to this, they’re motivated to provide and deliver the highest quality of work.

Animators have a wide variety of skills. The most common attributes include:

  • Artistic talent and technical skills
  • Communication and storytelling skills
  • Natural creativity
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Empathy
  • Drawing skills
  • Computer literacy and familiarity with graphics software including Adobe Creative Suite
  • Editing
  • The flexibility to switch between several projects at once.
  • The ability to present their work
  • An eye for detail
  • Teamwork

Each of our animator experts have been manually vetted by our dedicated onboarding team to ensure they have the right skills and experience to be considered an elite Freelancer. They have their own profile that outlines their skills and experience, giving you the opportunity to review this to ensure they have the right background for your project.

Our contracted rates for animators in 2019 ranged between £100 and £450, with the average day rate being £300.

Manage your global contractor workforce with confidence

From sourcing to payments, manage your contingent workforce with automation, compliance, and real-time visibility built in.

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