2D Motion Designer - Calm 2-Min Animated Micro-Lessons (Mental Health) - Paid Test, Ongoing

We're producing a library of short animated micro-lessons for a mental health and wellbeing platform. The scripts are finished - 50 episodes, each about two minutes long. We're looking for one or more motion designers to bring them to life, starting with a single paid test lesson. WHAT EACH LESSON IS A calm, professional 2D animated explainer, roughly 2:00 long, built from a beat-by-beat script we provide: six scenes of about 20 seconds each, with exact timecodes, an on-screen visual cue per scene, and caption text that must appear verbatim. Think clean illustration, simple diagrams, restful pacing - not flashy, not corporate-slick. The subject matter (grief, anxiety, recovery, relationships) calls for warmth and restraint. WHAT WE PROVIDE - Complete scripts with timecodes and on-screen cues for every beat - A short production brief (brand colors, pacing, content rules) - Fast feedback, usually within one business day WORK IN YOUR OWN TOOL - NO LOTTIE REQUIRED You do NOT need to deliver Lottie files or author for lottie-web. Use whatever you do your best work in - After Effects, other Adobe apps, or equivalent. We only ask that you deliver organized, layered, clearly named source project files with your renders, so our team can export to Lottie or other formats later. Any third-party assets must be cleared for commercial use, with source and license noted. DELIVERABLES PER LESSON 1. Master render: 1080p 16:9 MP4 (must stay legible at mobile sizes). 2. Layered source project files (organized and named) 3. A short list of any third-party assets used, with licenses HOW WE'LL WORK - One paid test lesson first, to align on style (full rate - no spec work) - If it's a fit: batches of five lessons, with a per-lesson fixed price - 50 lessons total are scripted, so this can be a long engagement for the right person - and we're open to splitting the library across two or three designers - The $400 budget shown is for the single test lesson; per-lesson pricing for batches is negotiated after the test TO APPLY, PLEASE INCLUDE 1. Two or three portfolio samples in a calm, explainer style (links) 2. Your fixed price per finished 2-minute lesson 3. Your typical turnaround per lesson 4. One sentence on your toolchain and what your source-file handoff looks like Sensitive subject matter is involved (grief, addiction, crisis support). We need someone who can treat it with care - if you've done healthcare, education, or nonprofit work, mention it.