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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Me Too -- Anonymous (Rough Pass) — I was so honored to help out with a campaign of videos for such a great cause. Check out the full videos for the Me Too Movement Twitter | Instagram | Behance
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Me Too -- Anonymous (Rough Pass)

February 19, 2019

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Celebrate! — It's finally out! Check out the full video at Geometrio Instagram | Behance
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Celebrate!

February 14, 2019

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Computer Blast — Keep your eyes peeled for some new work this week!
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Computer Blast

February 12, 2019

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Alpaca Run-Cycle Process — This was a fun little run-cycle I did last year for a much larger project. It felt like working an old Scooby-Doo episode where they're just running through a looping background haha.
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Alpaca Run-Cycle Process

January 21, 2019

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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 design was all Joey and I did the the skeleton man (self portrait)and some flame action.
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Mixed Parts Brief 005: "Spooky"

October 29, 2018

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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://vimeo.com/269870621
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Brotherly Love -- Dejected

May 16, 2018

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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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Zocdoc Breakdown

January 25, 2018

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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 see some of the other projects I have been fortunate to help out on!
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Reel 2017

September 18, 2017

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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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New Work Teaser

September 06, 2017

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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 sit down and you're think "Wait.. what's his nose look like again?"
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Taylor & Luke

July 17, 2017

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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 challenge for me and I really wanted to push how the character plays with the depth. I can't wait to keep pushing my skills with cel animation.
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Classical Animation -- Character Leap

May 22, 2017

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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 cel animation.
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Classical Animation -- Safari Man

May 22, 2017

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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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Falling Man

January 10, 2017

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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. I really wanted to try something different and go for more of a collage-like look. Check out the full video here: https://vimeo.com/bruceterhouse/pleaseriseanimation
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Please Rise -- Motion Corpse Music Video

January 09, 2017

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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 typefaces. Mobilo is the second collaborated typeface that Animography is releasing for free. 236 amazing animators work together on this. Check it out here: https://animography.net/products/mobilo
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m -- Mobilo Animated by Animography

November 01, 2016

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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 coming up with new ways to animate text. I really enjoy it.
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Website Build

July 19, 2016

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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 process of the initial terrible animation to this smoother one on my site at zaktietjen.com
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Reel Outro 2016

July 19, 2016

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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. Check out the whole thing at zaktietjen.com!
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Reel Intro 2016

July 18, 2016

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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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Hygienist Hero

May 08, 2016

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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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Smoke Landing

April 27, 2016

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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 a lot of fun.
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Implosion

March 16, 2016

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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 previous one.
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Explosion 003

February 18, 2016

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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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Explosion 002

February 18, 2016

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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 Martinez got to talking at Blendfest and came up with the idea to put together an animation collaboration project where you animate 1-2 seconds and pass it on to another animator... I got my frame from Kyle Martinez and added another second or so bef...
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Chain-a-Mation Ball Squish

December 29, 2015

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