After surviving a bat bite and four years of working in Los Angeles, the Spanish designer Ana Pérez López has gained recognition of The One Club for Creativity's Young Guns Award, several Vimeo Staff Pick badges, and an Emmy Award that she shares with her old team at CNN. Her illustration and animation clients include The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Spotify, UNWOMEN, and Samsung. She was made in Madrid (Spain) but currently roams the streets of London. Her services include, cel animation, 2D animation, and product design although her true passion is brand and illustration. She is a former Journalist, a current type nerd, and immune to rabies.
Work history
Motion DesignerCNN
London, United KingdomFull Time
I develop the look and design grammar of CNN+, the new subscription platform of the media company. Making style frames and generating design systems that each show will follow is part of my role. Designing title cards and long form animation content for documentaries, or non fiction features, and interactive journeys are part of what I do.
Brand Illustrator/AnimatorCulture Trip
London, United KingdomFull Time
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Skills
- Cel Animation
- Affect Effects
- Typography
- Illustration
- Adobe Photoshop
- Vector Illustration
- Editorial Illustration
- Infographic Design
- Animation
- Animated Gif
Education
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M.F.A Masters Fine Art California Institute of the Arts
- Los Angeles, United States
Master in Experimental Animation
GPA: 3,98/4
Sponsored by:
+ La Caixa Foundation
+ United Plankton Animation Scholarship
+ ASIFA HOLLYWOOD
** I was selected by the head if the HeforShe program of UNWOMEN, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, and the award-winning documentarist Pia Borg, to animate a spot for the HeForShe IMPACT Summit that I got to attend in September 2018.
** I hosted “Non-Fiction Club” a weekly space where students could debate the limits of animation in journalism and meet professionals that used the form.
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MasterU.N.E.D
- Santiago, Chile
MASTER IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM
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Awards
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ACHAVA AwardBauhaus University Weimar
ACHAVA award for “a short film that addresses a socially relevant topic” ("Las del Diente") Bauhaus-Universität Weimar film festival, Backup and Beyond.
Jury statement
We listen to three young women in a spontaneous conversation. An often surreal, playful animation underlines the topics and questions that women face: the Pill as a Product of a Toxic Pharmaceutical Industry, Taboo Diseases, and the Question of whether it is moral to put children into this world (without a bright future). Why on the one hand, people with wombs are forced to have children so much,
at the same time making child-rearing structurally so difficult? A life-changing decision that is not only under social pressure, but also under time pressure happens. Las Del Diente does not provide simple answers to complex questions. The film opens a discussion space for problems, the solutions of which are long overdue - and in an entertaining way that doesn't lack humour. Bravo!Young GunsThe One Club for Creativity
Young Guns recognises the vanguard of creative professionals 30 years of age and under. Founded in 1996, the portfolio-based competition has grown to become one of the most coveted awards for young creatives around the globe. For many, being named a Young Guns winner is a sure sign of a skyrocketing career, as well as a source of validation for all of the stressful days and sleepless nights that have come with early successes.
"Ana is a master animation director. Her talent is organic. She designs her films with iconic, elegantly orthographic compositions while playing in the abstracts of story, challenging her audience to see the world in a more playfully mature, more future female, original way." -Jury statement+ Show more