Opening title sequence using After Effects

Motion Designer / After Effects Artist 25-Second 4K Broadcast Title Sequence — Sports Documentary Fixed-bid freelance project · Remote · Animatic and full spec already complete The Short Version We need a motion designer to take a fully locked, fully specified 25-second title sequence and build it at broadcast quality in After Effects. The creative work is done. Choreography, timing, layout, typography, and the finale are approved and documented to the frame. You are not designing this — you are elevating a finished animatic into finished broadcast graphics. That means no design-by-committee, no mood boards, no concept rounds. You get a written build guide with exact coordinates, timings, easing curves, and color values, plus a reference render to match. We are looking for craft and 3D chops, not concepting. The Project “GOATS 2” is a sports documentary featuring 17 all-time-great athletes across baseball, football, basketball, golf, tennis, surfing, and the Olympics. The opening title sequence is six 3-second sport “beats” joined by whip-pan transitions, resolving into a cosmic finale where a spinning Earth becomes the “O” in the GOATS 2 logo. The signature idea: one continuous flight handed off from sport to sport. A baseball rushes the camera and exits frame left; a football enters from that exact position and lands on the field; a golf ball launches and exits; a basketball picks it up — and so on, through to a gold medal and finally the Earth. Every handoff is position- and scale-matched across the cut so it reads as a single unbroken motion. Beat Sport Motion Featured 1 Baseball Launches from home plate, rushes camera, exits LEFT 4 names 2 Football Enters from LEFT (matching), spirals, lands center 3 names 3 Golf / Water Launches from bunker, exits LEFT 2 names 4 Basketball Enters from LEFT (matching), lands center 4 names 5 Tennis Picks up at center, launches, exits RIGHT 1 name 6 Olympics Medal enters from RIGHT (matching), lands center 3 names 7 Finale Earth picks up from center, becomes the “O” in GOATS 2 Logo + credits Scope & Deliverables • One 25-second title sequence, UHD 4K 3840×2160, 24 fps, delivered as ProRes 422 HQ (or better) plus H.264 review copies. • Alpha/matte version of the title lockup and name supers for downstream use. • Packaged After Effects project with organized comps, labeled layers, and any 3D scene files. • Key parameters exposed as controls/expressions — spin speed, launch frame, blur amount, land position, hold length — so director notes can be dialed without re-rigging. • Two rounds of director revisions included in the bid. What you are building • Six stadium/field aerial plates — baseball diamond, football field, golf course with water, basketball court, tennis court, athletics track. Each with packed crowds filling the stands. Style is stylized/illustrated but polished — not flat vector, not photoreal. At 4K these plates carry real scrutiny: crowds, turf, and court surfaces need genuine texture, not flat fills. • Six hero 3D objects — baseball, football, golf ball, basketball, tennis ball, gold medal. These must be real 3D with proper texture, seams, and a camera-fixed key light. • A textured spinning Earth — all-blue ocean with green continents, atmosphere rim, starfield with subtle distant planets. • 17 name supers composited into the playing surface in perspective (not flat overlays), plus the GOATS 2 logo lockup and two subheads. • Five whip-pan transitions with directional motion blur, carrying an object mid-flight through each cut.   Requirements Must have • Strong After Effects craft — this is the primary tool. • Genuine 3D capability — Cinema 4D, Element 3D, Blender, or equivalent. Several shots do not work in 2D: a football spiraling on its long axis, balls that read as spheres while spinning, and a rotating globe. If you are 2D-only, this is not the right fit and we would rather know now. • Broadcast or sports motion graphics on your reel — not just social/explainer work. • 4K delivery experience — all elements built or rendered at UHD 3840×2160 with no upscaled assets. Vector/shape layers and 3D renders should be native; any raster textures must be sourced at 4K or higher. • Hardware and render capacity for 4K comps with 3D, motion blur, and large crowd fields — plus a workable review/proxy pipeline so notes do not take a day to turn around. • Comfort working to a written spec and matching a reference render precisely. • Clear English communication and a predictable weekly check-in. Nice to have • Documentary or sports-network title work specifically. • Experience with crowd systems or large-scale stadium environments. • Your own texture/asset library for leather, felt, hardwood, turf. What You Get From Us This is an unusually well-prepared brief. You will receive, on day one: • A scrubbable HTML animatic — the definitive frame-by-frame timing reference. Drag the scrubber to any moment and see exact object position and scale. • A reference render (MP4/MOV) of the full 25 seconds to match. • A written build guide with per-beat coordinates, motion constants, easing curves, hex values, crowd densities, name placements, and the finale timing — all in a 640×360 working space that scales ×6 to UHD 3840×2160. • A clear list of expected director notes so you can build the right things as adjustable controls from the start. Because the creative is locked, we are asking for a fixed bid, not hourly. You should be able to scope this accurately. How to Apply 1. A link to your reel, with 1–2 specific pieces called out that are closest to this job. 2. One or two sentences on how you would build the spiraling football and the spinning Earth — which tools, and whether you do the 3D yourself or subcontract it. 3. Your fixed bid for the full sequence as scoped above, including two revision rounds. 4. Your realistic delivery timeline from kickoff. 5. Your time zone and typical weekly availability. Please skip generic templated pitches. A short, specific reply referencing the actual work will get read first. Paid test beat We are shortlisting a small number of candidates for a paid test: build the opening baseball beat only — roughly 3 seconds — from the supplied spec. It is compensated at your quoted rate, it is a real deliverable that goes into the final piece if we proceed, and it is the fastest way for both of us to know if this is a fit. Logistics Item Detail Engagement Freelance, fixed-bid, single project Location Fully remote — open to international Budget Please quote. We are evaluating on value, not lowest number Timeline Please propose; we have some flexibility Payment Milestone-based: test beat, first full pass, final delivery Delivery spec UHD 4K 3840×2160, 24 fps, ProRes 422 HQ + alpha passes Rights Full buyout of the delivered sequence and project files Credit Motion design credit available