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2022: Year in Review

By January 16, 2023February 3rd, 2023design, gergwerk, portfolio, process

Fire TV Ambient Experience

Roles: concept design / motion design
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This year I was tasked with creating ambient moving art for the new Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED. This new feature allows customers to set art backgrounds on their TV. At launch, customers can display over a thousand pieces of free artwork, personal photos, helpful Alexa widgets, and more.

Read more about the Ambient Art feature

I created a series of 8 looping videos that slowly ripple and change color over time.

Credits
Creative Direction: Gretchen Nash
Illustration: Josh Powers
Motion: Leo Dominguez, Gregory Kaufman, Sergey Kisselev
Sound: David Orr and Sam Koch
Video: Gregory Kaufman

Fire TV Ambient Post Production

Roles: color / looping / compositing / ux / motion design
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I also worked post production for the FTV ambient video experience. I curated video footage, edited, color corrected, looped, composited, and prepared clips for delivery.

Motion Studies

Roles: Motion Design
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Below are a few personal motion studies I created throughout 2022. I focused on dynamic ways to generate images using After Effects.

Fire TV Widgets

Roles: motion design / consulting
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Remember last year when Amazon launched Widgets on the Echo Show 15? The Widget patterns I helped establish are now available on the Fire TV. I taught Widget components to new motion colleagues and consulted on new behaviors.

Alexa Device Motion Design Guidelines

Roles: Motion Theory / Design Systems / Motion Design / Writing / Documentation
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I led a team to create Alexa’s first Motion Design Guidelines. This comprehensive document showcases how we approach motion within the org, delivers motion tenets, documentation, patterns, components, motion tokens, and best practices for creating motion for our devices. After writing the outline and content, I compiled all assets into the guideline website.

Illustration: Josh Powers