Animated Educational Resources
Grok Academy • 2023-2024 • Adobe Illustrator & After Effects
As Lead Visual Designer at Grok Academy, I had the opportunity to work closely with Grok’s education team to produce short, engaging animated content for topics covering cyber security, UX design and more. Here are a handful of animations I worked on “end-to-end”, in that I created shot breakdowns, artwork frames and the final animations. Please note some of the pacing is intentionally slow for young learners!
SCAM AWARENESS ANIMATION • This animation was the intro to a short course on cyber safety awareness for early secondary students in Australia. Making a website look intentionally ‘dodgy’ was the funnest part!
COLOUR THEORY ANIMATION • A short introduction to the use of colour for a UI/UX “taster” course, this one features a bear I quite like.
CODING LOOPS ANIMATION • Created in conjunction with Amazon DEX, these shorts featured one of Amazon’s warehouse robots as a tool to explain coding concepts.
ENERY FACILITIES ANIMATION • This short was created for a data science intro course to communicate spreadsheet features like ‘sorting’.
SAND TO GLASS ANIMATION • This one was produced during my time at University of Adelaide as part of a student’s PhD project. The student had produced a ‘picture book’ which I was then asked to turn into a short film. Please note this one was never 100% completed; that’s my voice doing the narration!
SAND TO GLASS ART FRAMES • As part of the animating process, I also developed static storyboard frames for the project. These show the notes I added to the visuals to communicate the plan for movement to the rest of the stakeholders.