Jack Vaughan Podcast

Today I'm speaking with Tyler Williams, the founder of Frame Rate, a new creator-first video platform built for motion designers, filmmakers, animators, and editors. Tyler previously co-founded Motion Array, the template and asset library that grew into a huge part of the creator ecosystem and was later acquired by Artlist. In this conversation, we talk about why Frame Rate exists in the first pla...

Today I'm speaking with Ben Fryc, a 3D artist, motion designer, and creative who's worked with Google, Figma, Loom, Wealthsimple, and now, for the last year, at Framer. I've followed Ben's work for years and really admired it. It's been exciting to watch his 3D and motion craft bring even more polish and energy to Framer's already stellar brand over the past year. In our conversation, we dove into...

Today I'm speaking with Justin Taylor, editor, motion designer, and founder of [Hyper Brew](https://hyperbrew.co), a company that builds plugins and automation tools for creative teams. If you listened to my conversation with Adam Plouff, you'll know that Adam builds many of his tools on top of something Justin created called the [Bolt frameworks](https://github.com/hyperbrew). Adam makes the tool...

Learn more about Danny at https://www.dannyperry.me   Learn more about the podcast at ⁠ https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Danny Perry — Founder of Plugin Play — historically a plugin development company and just recently expanding to be a new marketplace for motion and video pros. We spoke about - How AI development has evolved in his organization — particularly agentic-accelerating...

Learn more about Antonino at https://antoninoiacona.it Learn more about the podcast at ⁠ https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Antonino Iacona — motion designer & director. Antonino has worked at Apple, Google Creative Lab and is now running Studio Santo. We spoke about: How Apple shaped his craft through slow, iterative, detail-obsessed design. The experimental mindset he developed...

Learn more about Justin at https://www.youtube.com/@CleoAbram Learn more about the podcast at ⁠ https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Justin Poore — an animator and the producer of Huge if True — a show by Cleo Abram that’s had a ton of attention and engagement over the last few years, recently reaching 6 million subscribers on YouTube. Cleo is one of the fastest growing YouTube channels...

Today I’m speaking with Grant Shaddick, CEO of Tella. Tella is a recording and editing tool that is totally cloud-based. It’s like Loom but more HQ, and it handles a lot of the post-production for you. I’ve used Tella for a couple of years now and have been using it more recently as I’ve moved to more off-the-cuff production. It’s been a really delightful experience. Grant and the team think a lot...

Learn more about Audrey at https://www.audreyhavey.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Audrey Havey - a freelance designer, illustrator, and motion designer. I know Audrey through her YouTube channel where she teaches and vlogs on a wide variety of topics. And as I discovered her work i really wanted to have a chat with her here. She’s a true multidi...

Today I’m speaking with Meng-Hsueh Lin, an animator and motion designer. He’s worked with studios like Ordinary Folk, Coat of Arms, Awesome Inc as well as clients like Disney, Airbnb, and Volkswagen. We spoke about: ​His CS degree ​His passion for anime ​His experience with School of Motion ​Freelancing and collaborating with studios like OF ​Rigging and character animation ​Teaching and instructi...

Learn more about Twisha at https://www.twishapatni.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Twisha Patni, an Art Director & Graphic Designer. She’s worked with brands such as Apple, Spotify, Netflix, NYTimes, The Economist, and is now at Buck. We spoke about — Being multidisciplinary — How she’s developed over time — Her work at Buck — Illustration s...

Learn more about Tom at https://www.tparkes.com Learn more about the podcast at https://jackvaughan.com Today I’m speaking with Tom Parkes - a Web+Brand designer. Tom’s worked at both agencies such as Instrument, Justified Studio, MetaLab, and freelanced for companies such as Airbnb, Microsoft and he’s now at Glide - where I work - leading web & brand. We talked about many things like: The act...

Find out more about Chris → https://cspags.com/ Find out more about the podcast here → ⁠ https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Chris Spags, a software developer and the founder of JetBoost. I was involved in a project with Chris a few years back and recently found out that he's just sold JetBoost, a very popular suite of tools in the Webflow ecosystem.  So I thought it'd be really inter...

Today I'm speaking with Chase Goulet, a product designer and former professional Minecraft builder. Find out more about Chase → ⁠ https://chasegoulet.com/ ⁠ Find out more about the podcast here → ⁠ https://jackvaughan.com⁠ We talked about: - Failure, mindset, and the art of learning - Minecraft, architecture, and his road to product design - His college startup - Design as trust - The ever-encroac...

Find out more about Greg → https://www.jdgstewart.co/⁠ Find out more about the podcast here → ⁠https://jackvaughan.com⁠ Today, I’m speaking with Greg Stewart—one of the founding members of Ordinary Folk and now Lead Animator at the Bible Project. I’ve known about Greg for a long time, as Ordinary Folk are without doubt my favourite motion design studio. I remember first watching Greg from a Holdfr...

Find out more about Abdoulaye →  https://barrymotion.com/work Find out more about the podcast here →  https://jackvaughan.com Today, I’m speaking with Abdoulaye Barry, a Motion Designer and Teacher. I've been aware of Abdoulaye’s work for a little while now and wanted to get him on to catch up about his work, his approach to marketing in the motion world, his recent move to Dubai, and his future v...

Today I’m speaking with Coralie Delpha — a lead technical architect at Shopify. Coralie is a lovely, calm and curious individual. And very well regarded in her community — i’ve known her for a while and was really interested to catch up and dive deeper into her work, the Shopify ecosystem and more. We spoke about her journey in law, business school, learning to code, building community & conne...

Today I'm speaking with Maria Cruz, an artist, animator & motion designer. Maria’s worked with big companies like Google, Netflix, Apple, Sony… as well as top studios like Hornet, Odd Fellows, Buck, and now Hook. We spoke about many things: Early creativity and childhood ways of seeing Art direction, connection, inspiration, curiosity, and breaking out of the mold The art and role of a motion...

Find out more about Adam‘s work at https://battleaxe.co/

Today, I’m speaking with Arie Stavchansky, CEO and Founder of Dataclay. Dataclay is a company that develops software for motion designers and video professionals focused on data-driven video. Although this concept has existed for a while, it's not that widely known, but understanding data driven video and it’s interaction with AI is going to become more and more important over the next few years....

Today I'm speaking with Matt Perry, creator of some of the most used web motion libraries in the world. His work has transformed how developers bring interactivity and smooth animations to the web. For the last 6 years he’s been at Framer, building Framer Motion — and he’s just taken that independent as a new project — Motion. I've been wanting to have this conversation for a long time, and now th...

Hayley Akins is the founder of Motion Hatch, a school that helps motion designers and creatives grow their business. Hayley is one of the originals in this space. She's been active since 2017 and has helped many people in the industry. I wanted to bring her on to discuss marketing, how it's evolving for creatives, and how to effectively connect with prospects online and on social media. We also ta...

Imsety Taylor is a creator, motion designer, and founder of Set Angle — a web and motion agency. He’s worked with brands like Ford and Keller Williams and collaborated with studios like Ravie. I identify a lot with Imsety — although I'm probably not as talented. He’s got a deep love of being creative in four mediums that we share: animation, technology, design, and sound. We talked about his skill...

Today I’m speaking with Ian Waters - CTO of Cavalry. This is a really fascinating and quite technical conversation about designing motion tools. Cavalry is a relatively young Motion Design tool with a really talented team. And to be building a new motion design tool at this time is really interesting… Motion design is still young and it’s a paradigm that’s intimately woven with the abilities of th...

Today I’m speaking with Oscar Brooks, co-founder and CEO of V88. V88 is one of the leading Glide agencies. They've built hundreds of applications and scaled incredibly quickly in the last year, mostly due to their talent and personality, but also because it’s just a really interesting time at Glide right now. So I wanted to get Oscar on to help explain this story. We talked about: - The non-tradit...

Today on the podcast, I’m speaking with Wes Cockx (@wes_cream), creative director and 3D designer. Wes is one of my favorite 3D artists and has worked for Microsoft, Deepmind, Apple, Meta, Google, Github and more. We spoke about his early experiences in 3D, rendering, his creative process, experiments, working with different clients and much much more. Please reach out if you have comments, guest-...