Multimedia Designer

Multimedia designers create experiential or interactive presentations of information.

Every year, an Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Design is awarded to one lucky winner. Movie title design is a true form of art and it’s one of many areas of specialization a multimedia designer may pursue in his or her career.

Multimedia designers create visual effects that excite, explain, and entertain. Multimedia designers may work in the entertainment industry, creating special effects for movies, television, and video games. Or, they may work to create attention-grabbing visuals and multimedia presentations for corporations and organizations. With multimedia designers, gone are the days of static PowerPoint presentations and boring slide shows! (At least we can dare to dream.)

Tools used for multimedia development can vary widely by industry, but a multimedia designer will generally need to be familiar with the standard Adobe Creative Suite tools—Photoshop, Illustrator—as well as Adobe Premiere and After Effects. They will be expected to plan, shoot, and edit high quality video content and photographs. Unless they specialize in video games or broadcast media, web skills such as HTML, CSS, and social media savvy are very much in demand, and programming skills are a plus.

The field of multimedia is like the movie industry. To be good at it, you must accept that a tremendous amount of planning and preparation, as well as painstaking craft and editing, goes into the final product. Five minutes of high quality media could take a month of 60‑hour weeks to create. This is true whether you are designing computer‑generated animations, video game interfaces, or instructional videos for major corporations.

But the reward is working in a creative field and entertaining people for a living.

Do you have what it takes? Here is a typical entry‑level job description for a Multimedia Designer:

Multimedia Designer

Luminous Aquatic Systems – Portland, OR

Job Description
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Luminous Aquatic Systems is looking for a creative, talented individual to join its marketing department as a Multimedia Designer. The candidate will develop and design creative video/interactive content for print, exhibition, website, advertisements, and social media.

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