Motion Graphics Artist

What you'll do

Despite the title, you will not be making motion graphics. The work is evaluating and annotating short video clips of robots or people performing actions, for a robotics and human-activity training pipeline.

Each clip comes with a written directive. You decide whether the action matches it and whether it reached the defined end state, completely and accurately. In comparison tasks you see two clips and choose which better fulfils the instruction. In correction tasks the AI has already drafted the annotation (where an action starts and stops, what it is, the key feedback points) and you fix, tighten or extend it.

The ad asks for a motion graphics artist because the job turns on seeing small differences in movement, timing and object interaction frame by frame, which is exactly what animators and compositors train their eyes to do. Everything is scored against detailed rubrics and written up in clear notes.

Who fits

The ad lists no formal qualifications, no years and no degree. The required skills it names are video annotation, attention to detail, written communication, quality assurance and robotics domain knowledge. In practice that points to:

• Motion designers, animators or compositors used to scrubbing footage frame by frame
• People who can hold a rubric steady across many similar clips
• Clear written English for short, precise notes
• Some sense of how robots move and fail, which the ad lists as a skill

What it pays

$15–80/hour, micro1's published band. The top is more than five times the bottom and nothing says what decides placement, so plan around $15 until you see an offer. No compensation structure, weekly hours or project length is stated.

Worth knowing

Good:

• One hundred openings and a high-demand flag
• No formal bar listed, so a portfolio or annotation background may be enough
• Frame-level motion judgment is directly useful here
• No country restriction named on the ad

Less good:

• A very wide band, starting at $15, with no stated basis for placement
• The title oversells: this is annotation, not motion design
• Clip-by-clip rubric work is repetitive
• No preferred qualifications, hours or duration published, so it is hard to judge fit in advance
• Contractor engagement: no benefits, no notice period, your own tax to manage

About this listing

Posted by micro1 on its own jobs portal and read on 24 September 2026; it had been up for about a month. The $15–80/hour band, 100 openings and the scope described above are its published text. micro1 runs the identical brief and band under a Video Annotation Expert title as well, so apply to one rather than expecting two separate projects. No country restriction is stated. See micro1.