Zak Tietjen
Animator/Designer

About

Hello!

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About

You can call me Zak.

I’m a freelance animator & illustrator from Columbus, OH. What I enjoy about this industry is the variety of work. You can find me animating some complex 2D shapes, photo collages, hand drawn characters frame-by-frame, and even some realistic 3D animation. I’m always finding a new avenue to explore and bring my style to.

I love hanging out with my wife, our two knucklehead dogs & our three little girls. As a food-lover, I’m always trying to make huge gnarly meals, so feel free to swing by for breakfast on the weekend.

Contact:

me@zaktietjen.com

Select Studios & Clients:

Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, Marvel, Microsoft, Logitech, Uber, Perception, Buck, Oddfellows, IV Studio, We Are Royale, Newfangled, Dash Studio & more.

Some fun BTS on the Zeplin x Figma videos I posted this week. I had a few people asking me about the workflow on these and I think seeing the keyframes in motion definitely helps. I also helped establish the motion language on some other elements us
The lovely team over at @oddfellowstv brought me on to animate these lovely designs that are always shifting and changing, as if they’re being edited live by other collaborators in the project. Definitely one of the more complex projects in ter
I was able to work with the wonderful folks at @thisisbien last year on this super fun spot for Instagram. I hadn’t played soccer since little league so I definitely had to watch a bunch of slo-mo Futbol videos to accurately portray the physics
Some BTS from my work with @iv___studio that I shared earlier today! For the majority of our scenes we did a mix of rigged characters and replaced limbs with frame-by-frame animation, which gave it some extra personality. #motion #aftereffects #2da
Moon Knight behind-the-scenes! I’m so thankful the awesome team at Perception trusted me to learn Redshift on the fly and dust off some 3D skills & @seijigram for answering any questions. Not only was I able to develop the actual title an