Raffi Simonian

Raffi Simonian is the Executive Creative Director and founder of Nau. For the past several years Raffi has worked on many main title designs for film and television as well as countless commercials and broadcast projects. His work has been seen on television in ads for Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and Verizon, among many others. In 2008, he directed live-action and animation films for Lexus at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show. He also served as Creative Director for graphics and packaging on the 78th Academy Awards. Read more >>

Guided by motion graphics designer Raffi Simonian, a team of Tumo students storyboarded sequences based on their respective extrapolations of assigned still photographs. The students mastered their skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4D.

Workshop participants then went on to crate motion graphics pieces based on their storyboards. Using Cinema 4D, they created three-dimensional models and animated sequences in order to tell compelling stories in video segments of around one minute. Topics ranged from the flight of seagulls and the journey from farm to city, to mutating body parts and an alien invasion. 

Below is a sampling of student work from the workshop.