MD Alumni

05/24/2024

Congratulations to Hanna Kazeka (MD'24) and Matthew Pearson (MD'24) for their winning design and animation at the 45th Annual Telly Awards.

Matthew Pearson's WWE Summer Slam Promo won two Silver Telly Awards in the categories of Best Student, and in Promotion Video.

"I am so honored to be part of such a great community and to work with such great collaborators to win these awards. I will be putting my motion design efforts to work for the WWE in this next chapter of my life after Ringling." - Matthew Pearson

The collaboration between Hanna Kazeka and Matthew Pearson, NFL Network Promo, won a Bronze Telly Award in Promotional Videos.

“Receiving a Telly Award is a proud moment for me, it proves the success of our collaborative teamwork and shared commitment to quality and creativity in every project we undertake.” -Hanna Kazeka. Hanna will be interning at Nickelodeon this summer.

From the winning announcement: "This is an incredible achievement! We received over 13,000 exceptional entries this year, and the winners represent the most innovative stories being told across all screens. As a Telly Winner, you are truly a standard bearer of excellence in our industry." Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 250 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks.

Congratulations to our recent Motion Design grads!

Check out the work here: https://matthewmotion.com/wwe-summer-slam-promo
and here: https://matthewmotion.com/nfl-network

05/15/2024

Ringling Motion Designers win at The Young Ones!

Congratulations to recent Motion Design graduates, Olive Mei & Sehui Kim (MD '24) for winning a Student Bronze Cube from The Young One Competition. The winning work, in the category of Motion/Film Craft/Animation, was for their animated explainer, Sesame Street - Food Chain.

Congratulations to Kyuri Kim (MD '23) for winning the Student Portfolio Award in the category of Animation/Visual Effects. This award recognizes the full portfolio of student work.

Congratulations to Yixuan Shi (MD '24) for being honored with a Merit Award for her Digital Illustration series; Bridge, Memories, and Homeland.

The Young Ones competition is one of the most acclaimed advertising, interactive and design student competitions. It has a tradition of excellence dating back to 1986.

Congratulations to all our Ringling Motion Design winners!

03/04/2024

FutureProof '24 starts next Monday!
All alumni are invited to attend. Check out the RinglingFutureProof.com website for the schedule!

07/12/2023

MD alumni, Steven Dvornik is a contender for the People's Choice Award for The Rookies - Motion Graphics.

Congratulations to all our Ringling MD finalists: Sol Bourdeau-Garcia, Kaisin Qiu, Josh Young, and Steven Dvornik.

Make sure to VOTE for all of our Ringling contenders for the People's Choice Awards! Go on the Rookies site, select the individual MD portfolio, and scroll down to the bottom of the page, share the portfolio on facebook to cast your vote.

Link to the Finalists page: https://www.therookies.co/contests/313/results

This is a combination of the work I've completed through this year with some additions from last year. I try to diversify the final look of each piece as working in 3D can be a very flexible medium, allowing you to achieve clean renders as well as a look that has qualities of a painting.

07/12/2023

MD alumni, Kasin Qiu is a contender for the People's Choice Award for The Rookies - Motion Graphics.

Congratulations to all our Ringling MD finalists: Sol Bourdeau-Garcia, Kaisin Qiu, Josh Young, and Steven Dvornik.

Make sure to VOTE for all of our Ringling contenders for the People's Choice Awards! Go on the Rookies site, select the individual MD portfolio, and scroll down to the bottom of the page, share the portfolio on facebook to cast your vote.

Link to the Finalists page: https://www.therookies.co/contests/313/results

These are some of the pieces I enjoyed making dearly at Ringling College of Art and Design. Many of them are inspired by my friends, family, and my culture background. The rest are inspired by late night 3AM thoughts in bed and doodles in class.

07/12/2023

MD alumni, Josh Young is a contender for the People's Choice Award for The Rookies - Motion Graphics.

Congratulations to all our Ringling MD finalists: Sol Bourdeau-Garcia, Kaisin Qiu, Josh Young, and Steven Dvornik.

Make sure to VOTE for all of our Ringling contenders for the People's Choice Awards! Go on the Rookies site, select the individual MD portfolio, and scroll down to the bottom of the page, share the portfolio on facebook to cast your vote.

Link to the Finalists page: https://www.therookies.co/contests/313/results

Portfolio Collection of all my work over my years at Ringling's Motion Design Department.

07/12/2023

MD alumni, Sol Bourdeau Garcia is a contender for the People's Choice Award for The Rookies - Motion Graphics.

Congratulations to all our Ringling MD finalists: Sol Bourdeau-Garcia, Kaisin Qiu, Josh Young, and Steven Dvornik.

Make sure to VOTE for all of our Ringling contenders for the People's Choice Awards! Go on the Rookies site, select the individual MD portfolio, and scroll down to the bottom of the page, share the portfolio on facebook to cast your vote.

Link to the Finalists page: https://www.therookies.co/contests/313/results

My 2023 portfolio, which includes work from my 4 years at Ringling College of Art and Design!

09/20/2022

The 2022 Department of Motion Design Show Reel. This is a collection of work produced this past year by the students in the Department of Motion Design at Ringling College of Art and Design. Congratulations and thank you to all the alumni whose work in included in the reel. Enjoy.

02/22/2022

02/01/2022

Check out this highlight of one of our amazing alumni, Sanjana Sharma. Sanjana is currently at SpaceJunk in Columbus, OH.

Congratulations Sanjana!

Hailing from India's capital city of New Delhi, Sanjana comes to Spacejunk with her love of color, typography, and good design. Passionate about well-crafted storytelling, she wears many hats at SJ along with her most recent one of associate art director. She is always looking to learn and experimen...

01/27/2022

Alumni Alert! We are so blessed to have so many alumni want to come back and visit MD again! It's really heartwarming to see how the Motion Design Alumni want to return and reach out to help their current MD family!

Alexis Copeland MD'14 from Microsoft came to visit!
Sarahina Borgia MD'17 visited all the way from Portland, Reed College.
Mitchell Blass MD' 18 visited from Nickelodeon to talk to the senior class.
Morgan Allison MD'19 visited from Buck.
Hannah Bridgham MD'17 from Nickelodeon even joined in the MD Fall Mixer!

We love to have our alumni visit anytime! It's so great to see you and catch up on all your successes.