Client: Freewheel Production: Diagonal Media Role: Motion DesignerA hype video for FreeWheel’s Programmatic Activation Summit 2023, where media industry leaders discussed programmatic buying for premium video. I was responsible for all designs, and…
Client: Red Hat, Inc. Role: Motion DesignerIn collaboration with BIEN - the Inclusive Motion Design Studio, I worked along with the marvelous art director Luis Roca and other talented animators to…
Client: Camera 40 Productions Role: Creative Technologist, Motion DesignerWhen independent India awoke to its freedom at the stroke of midnight in August 1947, millions lost their homes and histories. As their final…
Client: SCAD MOME Department Role: Motion Designer, Technical ArtistFor the SCAD Motion Media Design Senior/Graduate Showcase, I collaborated with Aanvik Singh to produce about 30 title cards of the students' names…
Project OverviewCoMotion, established in 2010, is an annual event hosted by MOMELove and held at the Savannah College of Art and Design. As the longest-running and largest student-led symposium dedicated…
This is my MFA Motion Media Design Thesis, completed at Savannah College of Art & Design between Winter 2022 and Winter 2023. The thesis statement I explore is "ISOTYPE employs…
Client: Domestika Role: Motion Designer, Course InstructorThis title sequence was created for a fictional documentary series inspired by the book "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart…
Project OverviewIn celebration of SCAD Lacoste's 20th anniversary, my team and I designed and produced a projection mapping exhibition featuring 60 minutes of original programming, mostly animation and expanded cinema,…
The project is a study in visual music to advance my skills in identifying synchronization strategies, evaluating their effectiveness, and applying direct and counterpoint synchronization techniques in visual music compositions. The music I chose…
The project is another attempt and study of visual music and as well my pursuit of my own artistic expression. Highly inspired by the repetition and recursion of live-action footage…
DESMOND
DU IT BETTER
Desmond Du is a Motion Designer that specialized in animation using JavaScript expression rigging and scripting, procedural workflow, tool kitting, and automation. He also makes AE tutorials and love to teach!
He also enjoys teaching and runs a software tutorial YouTube channel called NoSleepCreative. He has a virtual fragment of his brain online here.
Other than that, his hobbies include singing, playing the ukelele, an acousmatic experience while drinking coffee, and of course the occasional intoxication with good company.
