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Motion Designer résumé example — mid level, written for United States, set in the Nova design
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Broadcast promos into product motion, with churn, render hours and first-cut acceptance doing the talking.

Written for United States, at mid level, in the design field, shown in the Nova design. Every name, employer, address and number below is invented.

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Theo Marchetti — Motion Designer

Brooklyn, NY

Motion designer with eight years across broadcast promos and product marketing, three of them freelance across 19 clients. Built the animated onboarding sequence that cut first-week churn on a fitness app from 34% to 21%. Now directs a two-person animation team and the motion system the product engineers apply themselves.

Experience

Motion Designer, Halyard Fitness · May 2023 – present

Brand studio of seven inside a subscription fitness product.

  • Built the animated onboarding sequence that replaced four static tutorial screens, cutting first-week churn from 34% to 21% across 260,000 new members.
  • Set the motion system of six easing curves and three durations that product engineers now apply themselves, ending the inconsistent-transition bugs that had run at nine a quarter.
  • Cut render time on the weekly social set from nine hours to 40 minutes by templating the sequences and rendering through a queue script.
  • Directs two animators and an outside illustrator on every campaign; the last four launched on the date first promised.

Freelance Motion Designer, Independent · February 2020 – April 2023

Contract motion design for agencies, two streaming networks and three software companies.

  • Delivered 60 spots and title sequences across 19 clients, 94% of them accepted on the first or second cut.
  • Animated a six-part claims explainer for an insurer whose support team credits it with a 28% drop in calls about eligibility.
  • Ran the whole pipeline alone, from bid and storyboard through animation, sound and delivery, on budgets from $3,000 to $70,000.

Promo Editor and Animator, Crestline Broadcast Group · July 2018 – January 2020

  • Cut 300 on-air promos a year for four cable networks, turning a same-day brief into a delivered spot in under three hours.
  • Rebuilt the network ident package in 3D; the brand team kept it on air for the following four seasons.

Projects

  • Kinetic Kit — A free pack of 40 After Effects expressions for interface motion, each with a one-page rule sheet.

Education

  • B.F.A. Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts · New York University · September 2014 – May 2018

Skills

  • Motion: 2D animation, Title sequences, UI motion systems, Storyboarding, Cel animation, Sound design
  • 3D and finishing: Cinema 4D, Redshift, Rotoscoping, Camera tracking, Color grading
  • Tools: After Effects, Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D, DaVinci Resolve, Figma, Lottie
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