Steven Adams

Art Director / Sr. Motion Designer

Asheville, NC, USA
Steven Adams is a multi-award-winning motion designer and art director with over ten years in art direction and twelve in motion graphics. He holds a bachelor's degree from Ringling College of Art and Design, one of the nation's top schools for motion graphics.

While working for Uber and Postmates, he helped to rebrand their animation style to something with flavor, charge, and action. While art directing, he has brought ideas to life with leadership, creative development, and often getting his hands dirty. He has been at the forefront of visionary leadership with Amazon Web Service, aiding in many of their explainer videos. He recently worked with Zilch, a virtual credit card company, where he designed, animated, and developed many of their social media campaigns and performance ads within the U.S. He describes his art style as rhythmic, colorful, and retro.

Work Experience

Grey Woods

Art Director / Sr. Motion Designer

As a freelancer, I have had unique opportunities. I've had the privilege of designing and animating for large-scale campaigns, building brand identities, informing startups on how best to push their content, and helping clients make insightful videos.

• Lead projects to the highest level of completion while maintaining budget and ensuring client satisfaction.

• Designed and illustrated characters, storyboards, products, and more through brand guidance and company traits.

• Completed 2D animation and frame-by-frame motion graphics for video content based on social media, emails, and website homepages.
January 2014 - North Carolina, United States

Zilch INC

Art Director / Sr. Motion Designer - Contract

Zilch is a virtual credit card concentrating on pay in 4. My main focus was helping to bring Zilch to the US by pushing ads that would adhere to an American audience.

• Campaign for performance ads on “Buy Now Pay Later”.

• Animated and designed social media advertisements for Instagram and Facebook.
June 2022 - October 2022 United Kingdom

Hambone Collective

Art Director / Sr. Motion Designer

March 2019 - February 2020 Ohio, United States

Uber Technologies INC

Sr. Motion Designer

As the Senior Motion Designer for Postmates by Uber, I've worked on Postmates ads and Uber and Uber Eats. I've been at the forefront of the redevelopment of Postmates animation style. I have been involved in-app usage and had the ability to push forth new ideas and looks for Uber and Postmates.

• Animated and designed social media advertisements for Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Snapchat.

• Designed and created motion graphics for email and in-app development.

• Help set the animation style for The Receipts, an ongoing series about celebrities' wildest purchases.
November 2020 - June 2022 California, United States

Epipheo

Art Director

Epipheo is an explainer video production agency working in B2B, B2C, and Non-profit areas. While there, I provided direction, animation, and designs for the B2B team. My main focus was explainer videos for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Epipheo's largest client. I maintained coverage of the budget and made sure all videos stuck to the strict guidelines laid out by the AWS team and AWS brand.

• Art-directed designers, animators, and illustrators of motion graphics, B2B social media, and homepage website ads.

• Conceptualized, built assets, and animated the majority of all AWS videos from 2016 to 2018.

• Directed or animated all B2B motion graphics content.
April 2016 - March 2018 Ohio, United States

Education

Ringling College Of Art And Design

Bachelor of Arts

August 2011 - May 2015

Languages

English (Native),
Turkish (Conversational),

Awards

American Advertising Federation (AAF) - ADDY Awards

Silver National Addy Winner

2015

D&AD Award

Yellow Pencil Award

2021

Adobe - Design Achievement & MAX Awards

Silver Award

2015

Skills

2D Animation, After Effects, Art Direction, C4d , Figma, Graphic Design, Illustrator, Leadership, Lotti, Motion Graphics , Photoshop, Social Media,