Igor (Ivo) Liner
Motion Graphics Designer/Animator
Motion Graphics Designer/Animator
EXPERIENCE
Consumer Acquisition
Animator / Motion Graphics Designer - Present
Designed and animated commercials, corporate videos, explainer videos, product demos for top brands including Disney, Glu Mobile, Rovio, Roblox...
PlayQ Inc.
Senior Artist, Marketing 2016
Produced a variety of compelling and engaging marketing artwork, including video and online ad spots
Creativity, Inc.
2D Artist/Animator
Created animation and interactive art for a new generation of Hasbro games
Galxyz Inc
Concept Artist/Illustrator 2014 – 2014
Created 2D art and animation on new science based edutainment product; concept art and video cut scenes to establish brand look and feel
Zynga Inc
Senior Artist, Animator 2008 – 2013
Started working for Zynga from its first stages of social gaming. During five years with the company I
was involved in the creation of many brands, some of which are Zynga's greatest titles:
ChefVille, FarmVille, Mafia Wars 2, PetVille, CafeWorld, Zynga Poker, YoVille and VampireWars
Sustainlane.com
Art/Animation Director 2006 – 2007
Supersized a team of artists and animators in creating "The Unsustainables", an original animated series for Comcast's "Green" VOD TV Channel
Scopus Films
Director, Chief Animator 2002 - 2004
Animated TV series
Telad /Channel 2
Animator, Illustrator, Concept and Motion Artist 2000 -2001
ADVENTURES OF HONI: a weekly prime time TV program
Fox Kids Europe
Animator 2000 -2001
Animated TV series for kids
EDUCATION
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Jerusalem, Israel
Bachelor's Degree Graphic Design, Animation
Activities: Environmental Art
High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, Moscow
Animation
Fine Arts College. Irkutsk, Russia
Bachelor's Degree Drawing and Painting
REFERENCES
David Ramirez
Animation Supervisor at Consumer Acquisition
As an animation supervisor at Consumer Acquisitions, I have had the pleasure of watching Igor’s skill in After Effects keep reaching new heights with each video he created. Igor was open to new ideas and worked well with the other team members as we all shared critiques to improve on our videos.
Igor has always been motivated to learn new programs and skills that would help out the team and round out our team’s creative skillset. Igor would be a valuable asset to any team.
James Eisenberg
President and CEO at WhiteHotCloud
Igor is that rare artist who creates magic across many types of media. For SustainLane, Igor worked with various forms of animation, computer graphics, photography, and more. He takes high-level direction well, and brings his vast talents, solid work ethic, and leadership to every task. Igor is a senior artist, capable of directing others and establishing a vision in-line with the project and budget at hand. He was a pleasure to work with personally, and I hope to do so again one day. I highly recommend Igor!
Ashwin Seshagiri
Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times
I had the pleasure of working directly with Igor at SustainLane. He brings a rich talent and a great breadth of experience with him. He has a very astute outlook on the creativity and the business of media creation, and is constantly on the pulse of the cutting edge.
Arie Kahn
UI UX Visualization PM
I worked closely with Igor on animations for 2AM's games. The results were excellent. Igor produced interesting animation from almost no motion data. Each product received it's unique action type. Our interaction with Igor was pleasurable, quick and productive. I was very impressed from Igor. He is excellent animator. On concept and production sides both.
Enjoy (to work with Igor ...).
Mike Merell
Executive Creative Director at Consumer Acquisition
My name is Mike Merell. I am a filmmaker with 30 years of professional experience spanning 2D animation and motion graphics, 3D computer animation, live action, and advertising. I have 15 years of professional experience at the Walt Disney Co.
Currently I am the Executive Creative Director at Consumer Acquisition by Brainlabs, where I had the great pleasure of working with Igor Liner on my team as an Animator for 2 ½ years.
Out of all my animators I was most impressed with Igor. We hired him initially because of his diverse background in gaming, advertising, animation, and illustration and thought that combination would work out for us somehow and not surprisingly it did. He turned out to be one of my strongest animators and I am sorry to see him go. Igor is a joy to work with. He accepted and successfully fulfilled every challenge I gave him. He has a great eye for aesthetics, motion, and design, and is very detailed. He is also a great team player, helping out when asked and volunteering as well. Over the years his creative confidence continued to grow more than anyone else on the team and it was a great sight to behold. I always looked forward to reviewing his animation. I highly recommend Igor for your animation and advertising team.
Michael Judge
Lancing Freely at Freelancer
Igor is an incredibly talented artist with a wealth of knowledge and experience in both animation and illustration. He and I worked together on several different projects at Zynga, and he consistently delivered high-quality art under high pressure, remaining level-headed the entire time. Igor was my go-to guy on Café World when it came to making the animation look awesome, and he never let us down.
Gerald Broas
2D Animator/Artist
I worked with Igor as an animator on PetVille. His animation knowledge was mind blowing, and his results are pretty amazing too. Igor is a man of few words, but his work speaks volumes. I would jump at the opportunity to work with Igor again.
Lihi Lothan
Creative Director Grey Interactive
Igor Liner has worked in Grey Interactive Tel - Aviv as a freelance flash designer and animator for few months. Had it been possible, this freelance position would have become a steady long-term position - despite the short period of time, we have all learnt from Igor, both on the professional and personal levels. Igor’s creative ideas, visions and skills, combined with endless patience and uncompromising detailing, have resulted in one of Grey Interactive fine recent projects: a large-scaled game and campaign design for one of Israel’s largest banks. The results are amazing and both of us and the clients are more than satisfied. On the personal level, anything written here would be an understatement. Though being the quiet type, we can assure you that the character underneath is enchanting. The warmth, care, interests, knowledge and humor are only a small list of Igor’s personality. We can assure you that working with Igor would benefit your company and can only regret him leaving us so soon.
Justin Cooper
Chief Creative Officer at Rocket Games, Inc.
Igor was one of my first and best hires at Zynga. Igor is an incredibly talented animator who works smart, hard and fast. He was critical to Zynga's early marketing efforts. Later, we worked together on Petville, where he again did great work under tremendous time pressure.
Imene Ghernati-Harrat
Content Lead at Galxyz, Inc.
Igor's talent in creating animations for science concepts was beyond my expectations. Each time Igor surprised me with amazing animations that were unique, creative and scientifically accurate. I highly recommend Igor as one of the best concept artists.
Mark Lorenzen
Software to delight and amaze
Quirky, intelligent, unique. There is only way to get that "Igor-style," and that is Igor. I highly recommend Igor for quality and originality.
I had the pleasure of working with Igor while at PlayQ. This man is a true professional. He possesses a wonderful work ethic that is beautifully coupled with a fantastic attitude. I never had to worry about asking for more variations to a design or if the project would be completed on spec and on time. He pulls from his years of experience in the industry and it shows in the quality of his work. Any team would be very lucky to work with him and I hope I have the opportunity in the future again as well.
Frank Marquardt
Content Strategist at Facebook
Igor is a wonderful animator with a terrific sense of humor.
Barry Prioste
Art Director at Creativity Inc.
After nearly a year of working with Igor at Galxyz I have learned there is no limit to what visuals he can create. With each concept art assignment I gave him he created something more visually stunning each time. His animation is equal in quality to his amazing visuals. Igor is also a master at Flash as an art and animation tool, which makes him fast and efficient.
I will jump at the chance to work with him again.
Shanon Ingles
Episodic Game Writer at Telltale Games
Igor is a visionary environmental and game artist, who not only created stunning backdrops for the game's ice world and Jurassic Earth, but helped establish the game's visual style As a writer, it's always amazing to see an artist envision your words and bring them to the next level. Igor has this talent.
Sherri Cuono
Producing Apple Watch Apps ★★★★★
Igor is extremely talented and provides quality custom designs. I will hire him again.
Jonathan Lubell
CEO
Scopus FilmsMr. Liner has worked at our studio as an animator and art director for four years. While working mainly in clay animation, he has shown great skill in combining this animation with live action and other 2D and 3D techniques and programs. His talent is of a truly international level and his versatility in handling many different techniques has been of immense help to the various projects on which he has worked. Our studio has a team of 25 people. Mr. Liner has always been a helpful and easygoing team-member, pleasant to work with, offering useful suggestions and being involved and caring in the overall product rather than just his part. He has been a key talent in many of our productions, we are very sorry to be losing him and he will be badly missed.
Danny Paller
Director of Production
JeMM Productions JerusalemAs Director of Production of JeMM Productions (Jerusalem Multimedia), I wrote and produced the claymation video / CD-ROM project called “Purim Rock!”, for which Igor Liner was the animator and Art Director . The half-hour film appears annually on national television in Israel (Channel Two), and both the video and CD-ROM have been distributed commercially in Israel and the U.S. The project was a co-produced with Scopus Films and Tel Ad Television Productions. Igor sketched the storyboards according to my script/score treatment, built the characters, and single-handedly animated the film between March 1999 and February 2000. I have never worked with as gifted an animator as Igor. His work is technically clean and fluid, and artistically subtle, witty, and moving. His appreciation of the power of small details to endear a character to viewers or to make a dramatic point is nothing short of masterful. The media reviews confirmed my opinion. Ha’aretz, the “New York Times of Israel”, called Igor’s animation “enchanting” and the only television special of the season worth watching. Igor is also a workhorse. The amount of work he churned out in the final six weeks of production was absolutely frightening. He has tremendous pride in his work, and apparently doesn’t buckle easily under pressure. I look forward to working with Igor on any future animation projects, and strongly recommend him as a uniquely talented animator.
Nancy Juliber
Digital Media Executive/Programming/Production/Creative Services/Marketing
Igor is a very talented animator who takes his work seriously. If you need unusual characters, clay animations, or just good design, contact him!
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