Produced at: Perception
Client: Marvel Studios
Description: So grateful to get to team up with Perception to animate the main-on end titles for the film, “The Marvels”. I got to animate about 1/3 of the shots in the sequence, all in a 2.5D space in After Effects and built in a way to be rendered out as a stereoscopic 3D render. (for the 3D version of the film) I especially loved animating the “cat eggs” and the kitten bursting out of one. I’ve included a few GIFs on this page of some of my favorite shots that I got to animate.
Produced at: Perception
Client: Marvel Studios
Description: I worked with the talented design team at Perception on the main-on end title sequence for the Disney+ show, “Ms. Marvel”. My main responsibilities were animating several of the illustrative murals as well as designing and animating the neon red Ms. Marvel title at the end of the sequence.
Below the video, I’ve included a few looping clips of some of my favorite shots that I got to animate.
Produced at: Perception
Client: Marvel Studios
Description: I recently had an amazing opportunity to team up with the talented folks at Perception to animate this fun, colorful Special Presentation title card for Marvel Studios.
Creative Director: Greg Herman
Supervising Producer: Eric Daly
Animation: Jake Mathew
Designers: Boyang Ma, Jake Mathew
Logo Designer: Greg Herman
Produced at: Flavor
Client: McDonalds
Description: Worked with the Flavor design team on this animated Hello Kitty Happy Meal spot for McDonalds. My main responsibilities were rigging and animating all of the 3D characters in the spot. (using Cinema 4D)
Animation/design by Jake Mathew, Colby Capes, Brian McCauley, Mack Neaton, JC Tecklenburg, and Levi Reardon
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: Caldrea
Description: Worked with the Sarofsky design team on this animated Caldrea spot. My main responsibilities were animating/designing the “Exquisite” scene as well as the product shots/endtag.
Animation/design by Jake Mathew, Leah Evans, Josh Smiertka, and Matt Miltonberger
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: Chicago Cubs
Description: Worked with the talented Sarofsky design team on this animated holiday video for the Chicago Cubs.We went for a classic holiday special/stop-motion look. My main responsibilities included overall art direction, character design/modelling/rigging, backdrop illustration, and snowfall particles. Animated with C4D and rendered wih Arnold.
Creative Direction: Erin Sarofsky, Duarte Elvas
Art Direction: Jake Mathew
3D Animation: Jake Mathew, Gabe Crown, Andrew Hyden, Vincent Bonanno, Drysen Carsten, Zach Hixon
Textures/Shaders: Jake Allen
3D Character Modelling/Rigging: Jake Mathew
Lighting: Jake Allen, Matt Miltonberger
Compositing: Jake Mathew, Matt Miltonberger
Color Grade: Duarte Elvas
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Viacom/MTV Networks
I was comissioned by MTV/Viacom to create a series of 15 second promo spots for the 2015 Music Video Awards. The project consisted of receiving a few green screen shots of Miley Cyrus (the host of the 2015 VMAs) and compositing her into fun, visually appealing fully-animated environments. The spots aired on MTV as well as on their website and social media outlets.
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: OFFF Mexico
Description: I worked with a team of talented designers to create this title sequence for OFFF Mexico 2015. This parodies the "Instagram filtering" that is applied to design. I have included frames of all of the "Filters" that I designed/animated below.
Produced at: OpenX
Description: Animated this video explaining what the tech company, OpenX, does for it’s customers. Got to team up with my friend and talented motion designer/illustrator, Carolina Lopez.
Animation: Jake Mathew
Illustration/Design: Carolina Lopez
Creative Direction: Wenner Exius
Produced at: Vectorworks
Client: Vectorworks
Description: Animated this explainer video explaining the new GDTF and MVR file format/codec that controls the lighting systems for live events/concerts. I really enjoyed working in the flat/stylized/clean look to help visualize some technical concepts.
Art Direction/Animation: Jake Mathew
Additional Animation: John Long
Design: Brandon Antol
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: Aleve
Description: I animated a series of endtags for Aleve TV spots, making seasonal changes to the look. (Fall, Winter, etc)
Produced at: Perception
Client: Warner Bros/Legendary Entertainment
Description: I had a blast getting to work on the sequel to the classic Christmas movie “A Christmas Story”. I was tasked with taking a dream sequence scene in the film and giving it a “Norman Rockwell” illustrative/painterly look. I applied this treatment by manually painting keyframes in Photoshop and using the software EB Synth to apply that look to entire scenes. The director also wanted the sequence to happen within pages of a vintage magazine so I created a magazine animation in After Effects.
Produced at: Optimus
Client: McDonalds
Description: I had a lot of fun animating this announcement trailer for an upcoming McDonald’s menu item. The client ended up going with a a more minimal version of this animation (just the box and text, no plants), but this earlier option was my personal favorite.
Produced at: StudioNow
Client: Walgreens
Description: Worked with a team of talented designers on a series of online spots for Walgreens
Creative Direction/Illustrations: Katrina Zimmerman
Animation: Jake Mathew, Katrina Zimmerman, Lyndsay Mccully, Adam Hill, Sara Kopke
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: TBS “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”
Description: Worked alongside the talented Sarofsky team to create the title sequence for this show. My main responsibility was designing/animating the “Republican Pundit Hydra Monster” scene as well as helping out roto/key/clean up the green screen footage from the shoot.
Produced at: Perception
Client: Marvel Studios
Description: I was brought on to update the amazing title sequence Perception created for the show’s first season with all the new characters that would appear in Season 2. The process involved adding new footage to all the animated shards of glass in the title sequence, color-correcting/time-remapping footage, and comping everything together in After Effects. One slight technical challenge was that Season 1 was rendered with an earlier version of Redshift renderer and for some reason, the newer version seemed to render glass/caustics slightly differently. So I had to tweak settings a bit so the glass matched the 1st season.
Produced at: Carbon VFX
Description: This is a short character animation we worked on at Carbon VFX for a recent Chicago C4D presentation. Process included 3D scanning a hot dog, creating a facial rig, applying motion capture data, shooting footage, and capturing an HDR of the location. My main responsibilities were character design/3D animation/art direction of the shoot.
Produced at: Kolide
Client: McDonalds
Description: Here's a fun project I got to work on with the team at Optimus. I was tasked with texturing and animating all the appliances in the spot. (C4D+Redshift) It was a fun challenge trying to have the appliances move and talk like characters. (i.e. using the washing machine lid as a mouth) This is just a brief glimpse of what our world will look like in a few years after the A.I. takeover!
Produced at: Tallboy Agency
Client: Netflix
Description: I had the pleasure of working with the team at Tallboy to create some fun titles and 2.5D photo animations for the "Jo Koy: Live From Brooklyn" comedy special trailer.
Produced at: Voke Studios
Client: The Picklr
Description: I was tasked with creating graphics, text, and animations to enhance an already awesome edit. It gave some of the action moments an energetic anime vibe.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew, Matt Crnich, Carlos Foxworthy, Gene Park, Nik Braatz
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: Warner Bros Animation
Description: I worked in a team of 5 animators to create a title sequence for an animated feature film for Warner Bros Animation. We went with a retro style to showcase the symbols that the heroes in the movie wear on their costumes. The color scheme of bright colors matches the look of the feature film and the color palette was limited to the colors of Batman and Superman’s costumes. I worked on 2D animation and compositing of a few scenes, particularly the title layout and animation.
Animation/Design: Jake Mathew
Description: “Let it Snow!” This was a personal project, mainly as an excuse to play with some tactile Redshift shaders in C4D, trying to get them to look more realistic. At one point, I even had the hat and gloves made of actual C4D hair/fuzz, but it kept crashing my software. The environments are actually just 2D backdrops that I composited together with the character in After Effects. So it was fun to light the character in C4D to try to match the lighting of the environments. (plus a bunch of color-correcting/grading to blend character more with background)
Animation/Design: Jake Mathew
Song: Blinding Lights
Artist: The Weeknd
Description: Would you like to see about 2 minutes of an animated version of myself dancing to The Weekend's "Blinding Lights"? No? Too late, it already exists.
Personal Project. Animated/designed with Cinema 4D and rendered with Redshift renderer. Motion capture data provided by mixamo.com.
Client: OWL3D
Description: I designed and animated a series of looping animations and GIFs for the software company, Owl3D, which can convert photos and videos from 2D to stereoscopic-3D. (with impressive results!) They wanted fun, stylized animations that visualized the process of converting media to 3D, the types of devices that can playback the 3D content, and the joy of viewing 3D photos and videos. I stuck with a color palette of pinks and purples which match the official colors of the app.
Animation/Design: Jake Mathew
Song: National Aerobic Championship Theme
Artist: Ty Parr
Description: Personal project. I was inspired by the fitness videos from the 80s and 90s. And I wanted an excuse to finally use a Star wipe transition. Designed/rendered with C4D and Redshift. Character animation is motion capture data provided by mixamo.com
Client: Amico Apps
Description: I designed, animated, and edited this trailer for a Mac app. Client provided screenshots of the app and asked for it to be composited onto a laptop and edited to music. Animated and rendered with Cinema 4D and Redshift renderer.
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: Cisco
Description: Worked with the talented Sarofsky design team on this animated Cisco spot. Due to changes in the creative, we ended up creating two different versions - a textured, hand-drawn look and a crisp minimal black/white/red version. The client chose the latter, but I had a lot of fun working on both. My main responsibilities were 2D/3D animation/design - mainly for the scenes showcasing the servers.
Animation/design by Jake Mathew, Chas Fries, Jeff McBride, Stefan Draht, Dan Tiffany
Client: Blacks In Technology
Description: I designed/animated the graphics package for BITCON 2022 (Blacks In Technology Conference). This included logo design/animation, looping background for the presentations, and this promo video for social media.
Produced at: Carbon VFX
Description: Leading up to Carbon’s rebrand, I was tasked in exploring different design and animation styles for the new logo.
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: Mrs. Meyers
Description: I animated a series of short videos for Mrs. Meyers. My main responsibilities were creating all of the character animations for Compassion (purple flower) and Basil (green flower) I worked on these projects along with a team of other motion designers that included Leah Evans, Lyndsay McCully, and Spencer Seibert.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Description: Personal project
Produced at: Apollo Post House
Client: Souled Out Festival
Description: I had a lot of fun creating and animating these colorful trippy visuals for the Souled Out concert promo. Created the graphics/animations in various aspect ratios for different social media platforms.
Produced at: Invisible Ink
Client: Cricket Wireless
Description: I was hired by the team at Invisible Ink to create an animated online spot for Cricket Wireless. This particular one needed to be in the theme of emoji/social media icons.
Produced at: Carbon VFX
Client: Red Bull
Description: Added some stylized graphics/animations to compliment the tricks of mountain bikers, Kenny Belaey and Tom Oehler. I was responsible for art direction and lead design/animation. I worked with two talented freelance animators, Adam Hill and Jerry Nelson.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Description: After the fall of the Galactic Empire, a lone gunfighter makes his way through the outer reaches of the lawless galaxy.
Personal project animated in Cinema 4D, rendered with Redshift. I also rendered an 8K 60fps VR version of the animation to be viewed in VR headsets (or just drag the video around with your mouse cursor) HERE.
Produced at: Invisible Ink
Client: Cricket Wireless
Description: I was hired by the team at Invisible Ink to create an animated online spot for Cricket Wireless. This particular one needed to have a graphic anime-style feel with action lines, motion effects, and a lot of secondary visual elements.
Produced at: Prysm Studios
Client: Checkers
Description: I worked on a few Checkers/Rallys commercials while freelancing at Prysm Studios. They were able to shoot high quality, high framerate footage of all the food as well as provide stock photos of the various environments. I animated all of the type and stylized environments that the chicken box spins into.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Sound Design by Mark Murphy
Description: “Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, get down and boogie.” Personal project
Produced at: Engine House
Client: Various
Description: I had the opportunity to animate a series of book covers for various novels. These animated book covers were used to promote the book on various social media platforms. I designed and animated the books and environments in Cinema 4D and rendered with Redshift renderer. The book covers themselves were given to me as high-res images that I chopped up in Photoshop and manually animated each layer on in Adobe After Effects.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: The ScranLine
Description: I created a graphics package for this cooking podcast. Elements I created were transitions, corner "bug" logos, and this show intro. The client wanted a fun, energetic, playful nature to all of the animations . The show is mainly about making cupcakes and various pasteries, so I used the idea of "cake batter" drips/splats for many of the graphic elements. I delivered in various color palettes so each episode could have a bit of visual variation. Unfortunately, I was not paid in cupcakes. :)
Produced at: Invisible Ink
Client: Cricket Wireless
Animation by: Jake Mathew and Chris Gardner
Description: I was hired by the team at Invisible Ink to create an animated online spot for Cricket Wireless. This particular one needed to be in the theme of 8-bit video game consoles like the Nintendo and Atari systems. Inspired by classic games like Super Mario Bros.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Revision 3/Team Awesome LLC
Description: I created this show open for an internet podcast about geek/nerd culture in movies, tv, video games, and comics. I had so much fun working on this. I threw in many of my favorite geeky pop culture references, particularly from films the 80’s and 90’s.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Description: Personal project
Song: "40 Feet” by Franz Ferdinand
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Description: I modeled, animated, and art directed this 10 second intro for a “mixed drink review” web series. I went with a very stylized look, showcasing all the bright fun colors that mixed drinks tend to have. The client ended up going in a different direction for the final piece.
Produced at: Onion Labs
Client: Quaker State
Description: An opening animation I created for a Quaker State spot, in the style of an Olympics broadcast graphics package.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV
Description: I created this animated show open for “Current Libri” that airs on Current TV (Italy). “Libra” is the italian translation for bestseller. The show discusses best-seller books, so I thought an over-the-top pop-up book would be a fun way to represent best-seller books.
Produced at: Carbon VFX
Client: Panama Tourism
Description: I worked on a series of endtag animations for Panama Tourist. Here is a montage of some of those endtags.
Produced at: Eatdrink
Client: PBS
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew, Bradon Webb, Ken Finney
Description: I worked as part of a team of 3 designer/animators to create a title sequence for a PBS special about the history of Latin music. We needed to design and animate each section that was visually appropriate to that musical genre. My responsibilities included compositing, 2D animation, and camera work.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV
Description: I created this show open for “Current Click”, a show about what people are clicking on when they should be working. My concept was to represent the sites/videos that spread virally as attractive vector explosions. (since viral content needs to be very appealing to get mass attention)
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew, Matt Crnich, Aaron Kemnitzer, Gene Park, Nik Braatz
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: Ideal Partners Film Fund
Description: I worked with a few other designers at Sarofsky on the title sequence for the Jessica Alba film “An Invisible Sign”. My roles included 2D animation and compositing, mainly in the “flying package” shot.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Soriac Ventures, LLC
Description: An animated show open I created for the movie/TV/comic book/gadget review show "Newest Latest Best". Since the logo was cube-shaped, I thought it could be visually fun to see the logo morph into the various mediums that the show is about. (movies, comic books, video games, etc)
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Well-Travelled
Produced at: Spotwelders
Description: I created a title sequence for the pilot episode of “Well Travelled”, a rockumentary travel show. While the actual show is very humorous, the client wanted the main titles to have a serious young/hip, travel show look.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew, Donnie Bauer
Produced at: Optimus
Client: International Trucks
Description: I worked as part of a team of two animator/designers. Our challenge was to take a 2 minute technical voice-over and create interesting and varied visuals to keep the viewers interest. (and drill in their heads the importance of this product) My responsibilities included compositing, 2D animation, and camera work.
Art Direction/Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Produced at: Harpo Studios
Client: OWN
Description: Client wanted a fun, simple late-night show open to showcase the featured comedians. I played with bright neon colors with a black abstract city background, trying to give a suggestion of a comedy club.
Client: Spectrum Motion Pictures
Description: I created a short logo animation for Spectrum Motion Pictures that will appear before the films they produce.
3D Animation by Jake Mathew
Designs by Jake Mathew/Brandon Newman
Produced at: Productive Edge
Client: OUE Skyspace LA
Description: I created a series of animated “holograms” for the OUE Skyspace LA hotel. They were projected using LED fans. (when the blades are spinning, it gives the illusion of it being a hologram) The style was a fun, colorful, LA-themed look.
Art Direction/animation by Jake Mathew
Logo design by Brandon Newman, Jake Mathew
Produced at: Harpo Studios
Client: OWN/TV Guide Magazine
Description: The client wanted a sleek, fun style for the graphics package.The title of the show was very wordy and a lot to take in, so I used the cube shape to separate the title into two groups: TV GUIDE and Oprah Show.
Art Direction by Jake Mathew
Animation/Design Jake Mathew, Andy Montag, Matt Kuebrich
Produced at: Harpo Studios
Client: OWN/The Rosie Show
Description: For the Rosie Show title sequence, we decided to go with a fun colorful claymation/miniature Chicago environment. One of the reasons Rosie liked this look was because she envisioned this clay city changing throughout the season. So we ended up creating different versions of the open such as a Halloween and Christmas version. Andy Montag was the lead 3D modeller/animator, but the entire Harpo Design department ended up helping out in various ways. It was a lot of fun to work on and was a nice departure from the standard city footage montages so many talk shows use for their title sequence.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Description: Personal project using motion-capture data, C4D sculpting tools, and textured/lit/rendered with Redshift for C4D.
Song: "Pump Up The Jam” by Technotronic
Art Direction by Jake Mathew
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew, Michael Kislovsky, Matthew Fultz, and Steven Greenwalt
Produced at: Harpo Studios
Client: OWN
Description: I Art Directed the 2-hour OWN special called "Oprah's Favorite Things 2012". In addition to designing the official OFT logo, I came up with the look for the graphics package. For the show bumpers, I built a world of gift boxes (in C4D) with the OFT logo hanging on each one as a tag/ornament. Each bumper has the camera push into a different present and focus in on the show logo.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Description: Personal project
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV
Description: Created a show open for a Valentine's Day special about sex and relationships on Current TV. Needed to have sexual/romantic feel without being too graphic or literal. I came up with the abstract waves of satin/silk sheets as a good way to suggest this.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV, Yahoo
Description: This was the animation to a recurring segment on the “Yahoo! Current Buzz” TV show. It featured several different religious sites on the web….and made fun of them.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: City of Hope
Produced at: C2K
Description: I was tasked with creating a TV spot to promote a cancer walk event. I was given the script and some imagery from the event’s brochure. The client wanted something fun and exciting, but also not too cartoony/silly due to the subject matter. I tried to achieve this with elements such last eh walking “WALK” and the word “BUILDING” actually building on. The final show circle on cement sequence was directly inspired by a print piece used in the brochure.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Produced at The Cultivated Word
Client: Rising Medical Solutions
Description: Using on the colors from the client’s logo and a provided script, I created a kinetic typography animation for this chicago-based healthcare company. Script written by Sonja Jacob.
Animation by Jake Mathew
Logo Design by Brandon Newman
Produced at: Harpo Studios
Client: Oprah's Book Club
Description: Was talked with rebranding Oprah's Book Club. Client needed a simple, elegant logo animation whenever Oprah announced a new book has been added to the OBC.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Description: Personal project. Ever since I heard the song “Friends” by Flight of the Conchords, I thought that it would make a great track to create a short animation. And so I did. Enjoy!
Music: “Friends” by Flight of the Conchords
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV
Description: 10 second music/station ID for Current TV.
Song: "My”Piano”
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV
Description: I created a 14 second music/station ID for Current TV. My concept was to showcase all of Current TV’s beautiful show opens (created partially by the Current TV in-house designers and partially by the design house LOGAN) I built an oceaon of cubes in C4D (each with a show open playing on it) and had the ripples/waves controlled by the music.
Song: “System”
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Written by: Jim Mitchem
Client: moveon.org
Description: During the 2008 Presidential election, I submitted a political ad for Barck Obama to moveon.org’s “Obama in 30 seconds” film contest. I used colors and typefaces that were consistent with the Obama campaign.
Produced at: Sarofsky
Client: Women Employed
Description: Created this animated video that was played at a Women Employed Conference in Chicago.
Art Direction by Jake Mathew
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew, Brandon Newman
Produced at: Harpo Studios
Client: OWN/The Rosie Show
Description: This was a special episode of Rosie O’ Donnell’s talk show on OWN. Since the entire episode was going to be a tribute to Tony Bennett, I had to create a completely new graphics package (open, bumpers, lower-thirds, transitions) This is the show open I created with the help of designer Brandon Newman. Since “The Rosie Show” didn’t have the rights (or couldn’t afford) footage from Bennett’s earlier career, we had to use a lot of photos and animate them in a 3D environment. I included two examples.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Produced at: Harpo Studios
Client: The Nate Berkus Show
Description: I created this show open for the Nate Berkus Show. The client ended up going with a more footage-based version for the final piece. The rotating glass logo was created by Sarofsky.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV
Description: This animation was created for a political comedy show covering the 2008 presidential elections. The producers needed a graphics package that represented the chaos and absurdness of election news coverage.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Lavoie Entertainment International
Description: I was hired to create the graphics package for the reality show web series “Top Recruiter”. This is the show open for it. The client wanted a fun, colorful style to go along with the Miami beach setting. (where the show was shot)
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV
Description: I create a show open for “Current Informa” which aired on the Current TV Italy network. The show is about new movies, TV shows, video games, and other parts of pop culture.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Client: Current TV
Description: Show open created for a special about British culture. Aired on Current TV.
Animation/Design by Jake Mathew
Description: Personal project. I created this quick animation with the theme of “Reverse”
