CBS Motion Graphics
As a Motion Graphics Designer at KPIX, I worked adjacent to the live news room and created motion graphic designs for the weekend and evening stories.
As KPIX is a San Francisco local sub-channel of CBS, the work required detailed adhesion to CBS company style guidelines, an ability to work under pressure, and frequently under very tight deadlines. If a news story broke on air, it was my job as the designer on shift to rapidly create images, videos, and templates to support the story. My designs included animated maps, illustrative renderings, photo and video edits.
Animated Maps
The above map of Big Sur’s 2017 landslide is one example of the animated maps I created for KPIX in support of their updating evening news stories. Other aspects of this video that I contributed were the transitions between frames, the banner graphics underneath the interviewees (in this case, Suzana Cruz, Calttrans spokeperson) and the animated graphics in the lefthand corner.
In the above clip, the image that floats in the square to the right of the TV anchor is an image I created to support this New Years Eve story. Other motion graphics elements I contributed would have been the bottom banners containing descriptive phrases, locations, and the animated “2017” logo to the left of the banner.
Illustrative Images
Transitions + Templates
In the videos above and below, you will see an array of transitions between frames including switches to new scenes,
fade-ins between photo and video content, and the animated movement of groups of photos on a screen with a subtle background—a few examples of the transition work I contributed to CBS news stories.
I additionally contributed the templates for video conferencing between two anchors, as seen at 0:12 in the video above and 0:11 in the video below. The animated bottom banners carrying the themed segment title and speakers names, as well as the animated transitions between clips, were also CBS-branded templates I worked within.
To see the extended versions of the segments included above, you may visit the KPIX Youtube page, linked below.