Trevor

Bio

TREVOR STADTMILLER  206.229.9963 Portland, OR

Motion Design Leader Driving Engagement in Video, Audio and Interactive Experiences.

After Effects / Blender / TouchDesigner /Rive / Logic / Photoshop / Figma / AI Tools / Agile / SaaS

 

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Experience

01

Giant360°

Motion+Design, Creative / Art Direction 2023-2025

Immersive 360° video for Projection and VR

 

● Full-Stack Immersive Video Production. Concept and Creative Direction, Design and

Branding, VFX, Post Production and Sound Design

 

● Creative Ideation. Writing, Storyboarding, Mood Boarding, and creating Animatics

 

● Immersive Panoramic Environments / Blender. Modeling, Kitbashing, Texturing, Procedural

Materials and Lighting

 

● Motion Design / After Effects. Compositing, VFX, Color Grading and Titling

 

● Identity and Brand / Adobe CC. Logo, Branding, Design Language and Color Palette

 

● Audio Production. Soundtrack Production, 360° Surround Sound Design

 

02

Curious and Company Motion+Design, Creative / Art Direction 2024-2025 <

contract

>Marketing for ABC Network

 

● Polished Video / Motion for impact-driven Social campaigns : Disney + / Dancing With the

Stars / The Bachelor / High Potential / Will Trent

 

● Collaborating with Producers to generate highly polished, On-Brand video campaigns for

ABC with fast turnarounds and tight deadlines

 

● Video and Audio Editing / Premiere, Logic. Cutting short form video from full episodes

 

● Motion Design / After Effects. Keying, Rotoscoping, VFX, Title Animation and Subtitling

 

● Sound Design / Logic. Cutting short-form music, adding SFX and creative audio FX

 

03

Animoto Art Director, Motion + Design 2011-2022

Video Marketing Software SaaS Startup

 

● Team Leader . Led a team of Motion Designers and Producers to create Video Styles, Text

Animations and Storyboard Templates, defining the core of our video product

 

● Motion Design / After Effects. Created visual and text animations and learned how to translate

my designs through Javascript, into our proprietary video engine.

 

● Art Direction. Product UX, Brand Animations, User Styles and Design Elements, Storyboard

Templates, Marketing Materials and Presentations

 

● Motion Design Systems. Set and documented the parameters for the creation of Video Styles,

Text Styles, their layouts, functionality and animations to ensure parity throughout the product.

 

● Agile Collaboration. Worked with Engineering, QA and Marketing to launch dozens of

data-driven video designs for our web and mobile app.

 

● Led Product Discovery. Defined industry-specific design languages through user research,

market research and A/B testing. Curated our library of font, colors and styles, increasing

project completion rates by 8%

 

04

Universal Audio Senior Software Product Manager, Virtual Instrument Design 2022-2023

Pro Audio Software, SaaS

 

● Team Leader . Led 2 simultaneous teams of Motion Designers, Sound Designers, UX designers

and Algorithm Engineers to create new virtual instruments driving 20% increase in SaaS

adoption.

 

● Created Customer Personas. Led a 60-person workshop and unified cross-functional

teams to place the customer at the heart of our work.

 

● Reduced Customer Churn. Reduced our churn rate down to 4% through user interviews and

surveys, using that data to inform the product roadmap for new releases.

 

● Product Strategy. Identified market trends through Product Discovery and created the plan to

drive SaaS growth into new customer persona segments using Freemium

 

● Product Discovery . Deep Competitor and Market analysis. Crafted Product Briefs, SWOT &

User Journeys. Designed mood boards, and led rapid prototyping for user feedback

 

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Education

01

Seattle Central College Design / Motion / UX

02

Cincinnati Academy of Design Design / Advertising / Illustration