YouTube Video Thumbnail Design

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Summary

Job Title: YouTube Thumbnail Designer - Cinematic History/Engineering Niche (John Garand Story) Job Description: I am looking for a talented thumbnail designer to create a high-converting, premium thumbnail for an upcoming video about John Garand—the factory dropout who invented the M1 Garand rifle and revolutionized WWII infantry combat. The Visual Style: Clean, minimalist, and cinematic. Refrence Primal Space, Fern, or Solve on Youtube for thumbnails. I am looking for a professional who excels at lighting effects, high-contrast framing, and realistic 3D compositing/photo manipulation. No cluttered text, or low-effort stock imagery. The Concept: A striking image of a 12-year-old boy in a gritty, dark 1900s textile mill alongside a clean, highly detailed, floating 3D blueprint rendering of the M1 Garand rifle mechanism. It needs to tell a "rags to mechanical genius" story at a glance. Deliverables: Optimized 1280x720 PNG/JPG (must look sharp and readable at mobile scale). To Apply: Please share 2 to 3 examples of your best documentary-style or highly technical thumbnails. To prove you read the entire brief, please start your response with the word "CLIP."

  • $20.00

    Fixed-price
  • Intermediate
    Experience Level
  • Remote Job
  • One-time project
    Project Type
  • Contract-to-hire
    This job has the potential to turn into a full time role
Skills and Expertise
Mandatory skills
Graphic Design
Video Production
Nice-to-have skills
Video Editing
YouTube Marketing
Activity on this job
  • Proposals:10 to 15
  • Last viewed by client:4 weeks ago
  • Interviewing:
    6
  • Invites sent:
    4
  • Unanswered invites:
    0
About the client
Member since Jun 6, 2026
  • USA
    Sleepy Hollow10:36 AM
  • $120 total spent
    1 hire, 1 active

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