About me
First of all, I apologize for the mobile-friendly animation above being an ancient and hastily assembled placeholder. I haven't found the time to update it yet, but I hope to do so someday!
My specialization are internet advertising campaigns.
I have been preparing ad creatives used in campaigns for over 13 years, being inspired by esthetic sense of talented artists and technical solutions
of brilliant programmers with whom I was and still am fortunate to work with. With all those years I have learned many better ways to achieve
my goals and good practises for campaigns to go smoothly.
During my career I have created hundreds (if not thousands now) of creatives which were part of great amount of campaigns, both small and huge for big variety of international brands. (...)
I have started my journey with advertising being a guy you went to if you needed a banner.
With evolution of technology and clients' awareness I begun to like it more and more.
Ads were becoming prettier, technology started to offer more and better options, and I was becoming more efficient in what I do.
In 2009 I have decided to start work as a freelancer with own enterprise. I have had great time with more freedom, creating new, interesting animated effects and with time
created a base of happy clients.
It gives me great satisfaction when I'm being recommended by people I work with, so I'm investing a lot of effort in my projects.
Main Tools
Adobe Photoshop
Only people who dont realise it's potential can say they know it all.
Adobe Animate
We have been trough a lot together. Including change of it's name and leaving our Flash past behind.
Adobe After Effects
Not an owner of tones of plugins yet, but im getting there...
Blender (3D)
Getting better and better in three dimensions.
Substance Painter
Its like Photoshop for 3D models but on steroids.
Substance Designer
I'm a new fan of proceduraly generated materials. Love to experiment with it.
Notepad++
To edit them codes! Simple, yet effective tool.
LLM prompts (Chat GPT handling)
Perfect personal assistant in plentitude of tasks. For me an incredible assistant in programming.
Notable Skills
One Man Army
As long as I'm provided with key visual, materials, brief and specification, I usually cover entire, or at least most of the media plan by myself.
Experience & Know-hows
Years and years of professional experience in combining graphic design, motion, html, javascript, css and video together.
Motion Design and Visual Effects
Whenever time and technology allows it, I love to experiment with interesting and nice looking visual effects.
Work Organisation
With my long experience I can plan my work optimally.
Troubleshooting & Problem Solving
Finding sources of problems and fixing them, are challenges I really enjoy.
English Language
I am using English in contacts with people for many years now. More written than spoken, but i dont consider English language as an obstacle in communication.
HTML, CSS, JS, JSX
Got a hang of the basics that were required to do my job with standard creatives since Flash became obsolete. Kept learning since then.
Procedural Approach
I am enthusiastic about designing, creating and using procedural, automatic or semi-automatic workflows for repeatable or huge tasks to save time and focus on stuff machine cant do well (yet).
GPT powered programming
With emergence of LLMs like Chat GPT, knowing basics of programming and how to handle AI here, is enough to delegate typing to the machine while I can focus just on logic and troubleshooting.
Quick Learner
Evolution of technology forces adaptation, and I boldly go where no Mariusz Kohut has gone before.
