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Zak Tietjen Columbus, OH

I'm always striving to learn more. My biggest drive is to inspire others to create just as my idols have done for me.

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Mixed Parts Brief 005: "Spooky" The always awesome @Joey Judkins invited me to work on this fun little weekend animation for this month's Mixed.Parts brief. The concept and desig...
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Brotherly Love -- Dejected I'm very grateful that I got to help out @Arley Cornell with his wonderful short film "Brotherly Love". Check out the full video here: https://vi...
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Zocdoc Breakdown Here's a little making-of for the Zocdoc video I just finished for Demo Duck. Check out the full video here: https://vimeo.com/252245039
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Reel 2017 Whew, finally! I am now officially freelance, so I've got an updated my website and released a new reel. Check it all out at zaktietjen.com, and s...
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New Work Teaser This little keyframe is super excited to share with you a new reel and website. Keep an eye out for it in the next week or so!
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Taylor & Luke I did a little illustration of my sister and her long-time boyfriend for her birthday. It's hard drawing people you see all the time, but then you ...
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Classical Animation -- Character Leap I was so lucky to be apart of @henrique barone's class at Mograph Mentor, and I'm very thankful for all of his advice. This one was a huge challen...
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Classical Animation -- Safari Man I was so lucky to be apart of @henrique barone's class at Mograph Mentor. I really learned a lot and I want to keep pushing myself to get better at...
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Falling Man Here's another gif of just the character from my last shot. Check out the full video at: https://vimeo.com/197297824
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Please Rise -- Motion Corpse Music Video I was very fortunate to work on another Motion Corpse project with 35 amazing animators from 16 different countries, this time for a music video. ...
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m -- Mobilo Animated by Animography I was very fortunate to be invited to participate in creating a letter for Animography's Mobilo. Animography puts together fantastic animated typef...
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Website Build And finally, here's the little text build I did for my website at the end of my new reel. There's something that's interestingly challenging about...
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Reel Outro 2016 It started as a little test animation in between renders at work, and then I decided to develop it more for my reel outro. You can see the the pro...
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Reel Intro 2016 It took me a while to knock it out in between work, but I finally finished up my first reel. I really wanted to do some fun cel animation for it. ...
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Hygienist Hero My wonderful girlfriend finally graduated with her license as a dental hygienist, and I wanted to draw her as the badass she is!
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Smoke Landing Another hand-drawn smoke animation. This one was for a product landing and hitting the ground.
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Implosion This is the 3rd explosion I made for a lengthy work project. We wanted to go with more of an implosion for this one, with a secondary blast. It was...
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Explosion 003 Here's another cel animated explosion for a project at work. I wanted this one to be more delicate and have a little less of a burst than the previ...
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Explosion 002 Here's a fun explosion I got to do for a video at work. I'm trying to put as much cel animated elements as I can.
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Chain-a-Mation Ball Squish Such an awesome project. Thanks to Shawn, Ira and Kyle for putting this all together. I hope to do another one! Shawn Hight, Ira Hardy and Kyle Ma...
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9 Squares I was very fortunate to collaborate with some amazing fellow alumni of School of Motion for a 9 Squares project. Check out the other great entries ...
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Food Junkies Bagel I was inspired by @Nick Parente 's awesome bagel animation, and I really wanted to try it with some live-action elements and push the slo-mo on the...
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Food Junkies Pizza This was a shot I created for our intern project at work. I had the idea of a hand strumming cheese strings like an instrument. Check out the full...
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Geometry I wanted to make an abstract bow and arrow, and I had just purchased Ourosboros from Sander van Dijk and was itching to play around with it. So thi...
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