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Career History

KYLE STEPHENS

Proven lead motion designer, animator, compositor, and VFX artist with extensive experience executing projects within marketing, television animation, live broadcast, streaming, advertising, and web content from start to finish. A positive team player and lead with immense production pipeline knowledge and the ability to improve efficiency and optimize productions to achieve production goals.

CORE COMPETENCIES

EXPERIENCE

IGN ENTERTAINMENT - Los Angeles, CA 10/2022-3/2025

Freelance Motion Graphics Producer

Designed and animated titles and visuals in After Effects and Blender for IGN's Inside Stories, IGN's Summer of Gaming, gamescom 23, IGN Studio's Skills Jam 2023, and the IGN Awards.

SHADOW MACHINE - Portland, OR 2017-18, 2023-24 VFX Artist/Compositor

Developed and produced post production, compositing, and animated visual effects in Adobe After Effects for multiple television projects including Nickelodeon's Emmy Award winning "Tiny Chef Show", Peacock's "In The Knowand Honda’s animated Christmas campaign.

Provided VFX supervision for stop motion shots and improved production time by communicating post needs.

COMCAST, G4TV - Burbank, CA 1/2022-12/2022

Motion Graphics Designer/Animator

Designed and animated title and transition visuals in After Effects and Blender for WWE’s & G4’s Arena and Hey Donna. Primarily focused on week-to-week animated headers and segment titles for Attack of the Show.

Worked with many producers at once to achieve quick turnarounds on visuals for multiple live shows each with their own individual style for both linear and streaming formats.

STOOPID BUDDY STOODIOS - Burbank, CA 7/2019 – 12/2021

VFX Artist/Animator

Developed and produced post production, compositing, and animated visual effects for multiple television shows simultaneously including Robot Chicken, Modok, Ultra City Smiths, Woke, Crossing Swords, and dozens of commercial and web projects.

Worked closely with the Director and VFX Director to create style guides, briefs, project templates, and tutorials for new shows, and instructed new hires on production processes and best practices.
Decreased production time and improved output by updating file management protocol.

FREELANCE - Clients Around the World 9/2012 – Present

Motion Graphics & Animation

Produced and managed the creative and production process for multiple television and web animation projects simultaneously from concept through completion for motion graphics, 2D, 3D, VFX, and stop-motion animation projects.

Worked with and managed multiple teams to ensure delivery of numerous projects, assigning artists, facilitating and prioritizing project needs, requirements, organization, QCing, budgets, timelines, and delivery.

BALLAD HEALTH (Formerly Mountain States Health Alliance) - Johnson City, TN 9/2009 – 9/2012

Video Editor/Animator

Designed, edited, animated and provided VO for television commercials for the Northeast TN/Southwest VA region of healthcare departments and intitiatives.

Partnered with Niswonger Children's Hospital to create animated tv spots and in-office cartoon entertainment for children undergoing medical treatment.
Designed and animated mascots for a children's musical health campaign "5-2-1-0"

EDUCATION

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA BFA Animation

TECHNICAL SKILLS