// motion

Motion

Motion is where my practice started: 15+ years of 2D animation, VFX, and video for brands and agencies. Most of that client work lives under NDA, so this page holds my own work: patterns I've drawn, set in motion, and studies in directing animation with AI and code.

// Patterns in motion

Where the two halves meet

Most pattern designers don't animate, and most motion designers don't draw surface patterns. I do both, so a pattern of mine doesn't have to stay still.

Pot Party is built from two of my hand-drawn collections, Cactus in a Pink Pot and Pink Plant in a Pink Cup. The pots hop in a wave, with a sparkle at the top of each hop, inside a repeat that drifts and loops without a seam: the animated-wallpaper technique I've used for brand work, applied to my own designs.

See the original patterns →
Colorway shuffle Athena's Vases drifts as a seamless tile while an iris wipe steps through all eight hand-drawn colorways.
Whirling Blooms Retro Flora in motion: each bloom turns while the grid shifts underneath.
Tile to product The print pipeline in one move: a single Art Deco Tulips tile repeats outward, then closes down onto the bag it's printed on.
// Trend studies

Four short studies built from 2026 trend forecasts. Each one was made in code with Remotion, then rebuilt as a native After Effects project with its timing on sliders, so it can be retimed by hand.

Neo Deco fan Brass line art draws itself on stroke by stroke, mirrors, shrinks to tile size, and repeats into an Art Deco fan.
Gimme Gummy Sixteen glossy candies squish in a wave: a four-second loop that lands back on its first frame.
Neo Deco sunburst A quarter of a Deco sunburst draws on in brass, flips across both axes into a whole tile, and repeats under a chrome sheen.
FunHaus Harlequin diamonds flip through three colorway waves while the stars spin and pop as each one passes.
// Seasonal series

Daily series for social. Each post takes one effect from my motion glossary, plays it with a holiday twist, and names the knob that makes it work: the frame gap, the depth, the ease.

5 Nights of Motion

Halloween · Oct 27–31
Night 1 · Line draw
Night 2 · Stagger
Night 3 · Liquid motion
Night 4 · Parallax
Night 5 · Glitch

Thanks in Motion

Thanksgiving · Nov 23–28
Part 1 · Line draw
Part 2 · Stagger
Part 3 · Liquid motion
Part 4 · Parallax
Part 5 · Glitch
// Illustration in motion
Girl in Starlight, in parallax The finished painting, set in motion: thirteen hills cut from the original Procreate layers, each swaying at its own depth while the camera drifts in toward her.
The Worm Was Slow — animatic The whole picture book in 44 seconds: the opening spread animated from its Procreate layers, the inked pages in story order, and the ending straight off the sticky-note storyboard.
See the original illustrations →
// Studies in craft & AI

A running series of experiments in making animation with Claude, code, and AI generation tools. Each one is directed like a client job: a script, a palette, timing to the beat. Every explainer also ships as an editable After Effects project.

How I animate with AI The process, explained by the process: a conversation becomes code, code becomes frames, and the craft stays in the choices.
The golden ratio A short design explainer: proportion drawn line by line, timed to narration with word-by-word captions.
The subscription audit Three steps, one forgotten subscription. Interface motion built to make a dull task feel finished.

Motion glossary

Twenty-four effects, each rebuilt in Remotion with the one setting that makes it work named underneath. It's the reference my seasonal series draw from. The effect list comes from AI animation research by @showheyohtaki.

1/3 · Entrances & text Pop-in, stagger, burst, line draw, mask reveal, typewriter, count-up, kinetic type
2/3 · Adding feel Easing, overshoot, squash & stretch, shape morph, liquid motion, motion trail, particles, parallax
3/3 · Transitions & showpieces Mask, shape and liquid transitions, zoom through, flip, light sweep, glitch, impact shake
Shop spot An 18-second promo for my Etsy shop, built from its own tiles and photos: pick a design, see it become a pillow, then visit the shop.
Colorway lab An eyedropper samples the four inks of my hand-drawn Art Deco Bloom, then the palette remixes into three new colorways.
Monogram ident A wall of 36 pattern cards flips three times, through Art Deco Bloom and Art Deco Tulips, and lands on the Colorworks logo.
The Great Automation How a post leaves my studio: approve it, it's scheduled for 10 am, and it goes out Mon, Wed and Fri on five platforms. Toggle, chart, morph and confetti, with a different transition between every scene.
Kinetic type Four type techniques in my brand fonts and colors: word pops, a letter cascade, mask reveals, and a stack that swaps on the beat.
Roll & Do promo An 18-second spot for my own app, built as interface motion from the app's real colors, copy, and hobby art.