Kevin Ang
Artist & Educator
Central to my goal as a creative is inspiring people to unlock their flow state and imagination via getting in touch with their inner child.I'm an Emmy-winning artist who has spent 25 years leaping across proverbial lily pads, but VR stole my heart. From mixed reality painting and VRChat avatars to geolocated AR filters and experimental WebXR projects, I've traveled many frontiers. I've speed sculpted on a reality show, cameoed as a Gremlin on an HBO doc, and co-founded a community for XR artists. Here's a recent selection of projects I've worked on.
A walk down memory lane...INTUIT
The longest running gig I was as a designer for Intuit. Throughout those 12 years, I worked on various teams and campaigns harnessing every discipline in my toolbox from motion design to illustration. A major highlight was having animated the stage graphics for Oprah Winfrey in her Intuit Connect debut.
FILM & DOCUMENTARY
As a huge cinema nerd, I've had the blessing of working on some special projects in my career. One as a feature film animator for Richard Linklater's "A Scanner Darkly". I also did motion design for several documentaries chronicling the Nazi pillage of art during WWII to a haunting doc on elephant genocide from the late, great news broadcaster Leslie Griffith.
STORYBOARDING
Storyboarding always sounded like such a dreamy gig because it's the very foundation of how a show or movie gets envisioned. I got to do this for clients like eBay, Cisco,
Old Navy, and Western Digital.
BROADCAST DESIGNER
You know those over the shoulder graphics you see on broadcast news? Well yours truly used to make those alongside various ad campaigns and show openers for The CW and CBS. That's how I got a handy dandy Emmy!The irony is that I also created the opener for "Global Spirit", a program on spirituality practices from the very network that we were running against at the Emmys.
GRAPHIC RECORDING
For a brief period, I jumped into the white board artist pool. It trained me to listen for the most essential quotes/concepts in a gathering and translating them into an illustrated mural as a memorable takeaway for participants. Clients included Google, Deloitte, and HP.
PRODUCTION ARTIST
Leapfrog Toys was one of the leading educational toy companies in the world and I got to contribute game assets, UI design, and production art for various brands and game libraries.
