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Resume Roast for Motion Designers

Motion Designer resumes get read after the reel and only if the reel earns it, so treat the document as the reel's spec sheet: tools, pipeline position, deliverable types, and clients. After Effects is the field's handshake; Cinema 4D, rigging, or real pipeline experience changes your bracket. Sixty deliverables a year across broadcast and social, brand toolkits included, tells a studio what shelf you sit on.

What Gabe checks first on a Motion Designer resume
  • Reel link first and current, 60 to 90 seconds. Studios hire the reel; the resume just has to not lose the meeting.
  • Name your technical depth precisely: After Effects with expressions, Cinema 4D, character rigging, or Lottie exports for product teams. Depth beats montage.
  • State deliverable range and volume, like 70 pieces a year spanning explainers, broadcast bumpers, and social cutdowns with template systems for reuse.
Worth knowing

Recruiters spend about 7 seconds on a first resume scan. (Ladders eye-tracking study)

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