TiktokWork

2022 - Today

Art Direction, Motion & Animation, AR Design & Creative

Part of TikTok's U.S. Design & Creative Team, I create interactive AR effects and in-app editing tools. These features inspire over 1 billion users worldwide to share their stories.

Editor Pro - Design Lead

TikTok launched a new feature which allows users to add stylized type, animated text, and dynamic captioning to their videos. 

Leading design-side production, I worked with designers, engineers and product managers to help develop this library of creator tools.

AR Effect Production - Effect Creator

As an Effect Designer, I create AR Camera Effects for TikTok and TikTok LIVE. 

I work closely with product managers and content teams to shape creative concepts for TikTok’s worldwide audience. My cross-functional colleagues include illustrators, 3D Artists, technical artists, UX designers, and game developers. Technical Effect production includes VFX, 2D/3D animation, and Effect House development. 

Throughout my Effect productions, I've developed expert-level knowledge of TikTok Effect House's Visual Scripting Language and Material Graph shader tool.

Design Operations - Motion Design Lead

As a Motion Designer for TikTok's U.S. Design Operations team, I led motion projects for TikTok Effect House promotional materials.

I created animated content for platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Discord, overseeing concept development, production planning, and delivery.

My focus was creating high-quality content for the Effect Creator community. Most notably, bringing Effect House's mascot Archi to life!

DM Stickers - Character Animation

On the side, I'll team with illustrators at TikTok to create animated stickers for our direct messaging feature--users can share them in DMs just like emojis 😎