We, as the Designer Interviews ("DI") had the distinct pleasure and opportunity to interview award-winning, most creative and innovative Jin Jeon ("JJ").
Born and raised in South Korea, Jin Jeon is currently a motion designer based in New York City. He is all-round creator handling a wide variety of projects along with 2D, 3D, Conceptualizing, Storytelling, and Directing. As trying to see through any works beyond just beauty of visualization, he makes efforts on defining genuine meaning of them. On top of that, Jin loves creating animation to deliver more dynamic messages over sequences, learning any relevant skills to enhance the level of design pieces, communicating with many other people to broaden his perspective, and appreciating various artist works to get inexhaustible inspiration. He believes what he's into makes himself more develop as a creative artist.
Jin Jeon Designs
We are pleased to share with you original and innovative design work by Jin Jeon.
Jin Jeon Design - Alignment to Air 3D Animation
Designer Interview of Jin Jeon:
DI: Could you please tell us more about your art and design background? What made you become an artist/designer? Have you always wanted to be a designer?
JJ : Born and raised in South Korea, but all of sudden in my mid-20s I made a decision to study abroad in United States of America. As learning and taking any kinds of design courses as much as possible from School of Visual Arts(BFA), I finally found my dream major, motion graphic design which gives me a lot of interests, pleasures and motivations. I firmly believe what animating some static images or graphics always make more dynamic, powerful, and persuasive visual messages.
DI: Can you tell us more about your company / design studio?
JJ : Jin loves playing around various graphic design and mainly animation projects by finding genuine meanings beyond the beauty of art piece.
DI: What is "design" for you?
JJ : Infinite visual expression tool to present our philosophy.
DI: What kinds of works do you like designing most?
JJ : My most interest is motion graphics, especially 3D work.
DI: What makes a design successful?
JJ : Conceptualizing step is the most fundamental and important key to make any kinds of design valuable.
DI: How would you describe your design style? What made you explore more this style and what are the main characteristics of your style? What's your approach to design?
JJ : As for my design taste or style like how to express a piece of art work, since I like mathematics at the same time, chances are my design often combines with architectural or engineered esthetic, also well-presented in the "Alignment to Air" work here.
DI: What skills are most important for a designer?
JJ : communication and insight for whatever any projects deeply stand for
DI: Which tools do you use during design? What is inside your toolbox? Such as software, application, hardware, books, sources of inspiration etc.?
JJ : Maxon Cinema 4D: 3D Software Octane: Render Plugin Adobe Creative Cloud(After Effects, Premier Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition): Retouch and Composite Tool
DI: How can people contact you?
JJ : Please reach out to me as follows. j2motion@gmail.com junjin0403@gmail.com