Brandon D. Overton
Motion Designer, Broadcast
Miami, FL · (305) 555 0115 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/brandondoverton
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
8 years of broadcast and streaming motion design
INDUSTRIES
Regional sports networks, Spanish language broadcast, live event production
SPECIALTIES
Show opens, lower third systems, real time graphics templates, score and clock graphics
SYSTEMS
Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Vizrt
CREDENTIALS
Adobe Certified Professional in After Effects
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts in motion media design, Savannah College of Art and Design
Results at a Glance
140
Live broadcasts
3 hours
Minutes per game
55%
Rebuilding effects
60
Social cut downs
Executive Summary
Broadcast motion designer with 8 years on sports and news packages, working to a control room clock. Builds show opens, lower third systems and score bugs that operators can drive live, and keeps every template rendering inside the graphics engine without a fight.
Signature Achievements
- Designed the season graphics package for a regional sports network covering 140 live broadcasts a year.
- Rebuilt lower third templates so operators enter data live, cutting graphics prep from 3 hours to 40 minutes per game.
- Delivered a bilingual show open in English and Spanish from one master project with switchable type.
- Cut render times on the nightly package by 55 percent by rebuilding effects that were choking the farm.
- Trained 4 operators on the template set, which ended the on air graphics errors that had reached 2 a week.
- Produced 60 social cut downs a month from broadcast assets on a same day turnaround.
Professional Experience
Motion Designer
Bayfront Sports Network, Miami, FL 2021 to present
Graphics team of 6 producing packages for baseball, soccer and studio programming across 2 channels.
- Design and animate show opens, transitions, bumpers and full screen graphics for live broadcasts.
- Build real time templates in the graphics engine and test them with operators before game day.
- Work with producers and directors on timing so graphics land against the show rundown.
- Adapt broadcast packages into vertical social formats for the network accounts.
Motion Graphics Artist
Palmetto Live Events, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2018 to 2021
Live event production company of 70 supplying screen content for conferences and concerts.
- Built stage screen content, walk in loops and speaker introduction animations for events up to 6,000 seats.
- Mapped content to nonstandard screen sizes and delivered playback files to the media server team.
- Turned around onsite revisions between rehearsal and doors.
Junior Motion Designer
Coral Way Post House, Miami, FL 2017 to 2018
Post production house of 20 serving advertising and broadcast clients.
- Animated titles, credits and simple graphics packages to supervisor direction.
- Prepared deliverables in required broadcast specifications and managed project archives.
Licensure and Certification
Adobe Certified Professional in After Effects
Member, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts in motion media design, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2017
Core Skills
Broadcast packages · Real time templates · Adobe After Effects · Cinema 4D · Typography in motion · Render optimization · Live production timing · Social adaptations · Expressions scripting · Deliverable specifications