About / Jean Pierre MarsalaCreative thinking. Hands-on making.

STILL CURIOUS.

Jean Pierre Marsala seated at his desk.
Senior Motion Designer and Art Director

I make ideas clear
through design
and movement.

I create animations for products and brands. Across TV and digital media, I build templates and workflows that help international campaigns scale.

With over two decades of experience in art direction and motion design, I combine animation craft with reusable production systems that designers and partners can easily use to adapt content.

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The journey

EXPERIENCE.

2019 — Present

trivago

Motion Designer / Creative Production

Product interface animation for global TV campaigns, editable After Effects masters and handoff for localisation. Introduced HeyGen lip-sync into TV production and evolved AI-assisted animatics for concept testing and approval.

2014 — 2019

Freelance

Art Director and Motion Designer

Produced TV commercials, motion graphics, training videos and campaign content, from brief and concept through final delivery. Developed brand identities and visual systems across video, web, digital and print.

2002 — 2013

Camera Pix Animação Digital e Design

Founder and Creative Director

Founded and ran a design and animation studio in Brazil, combining creative direction with hands-on 2D and 3D animation for advertising. Coached designers, illustrators and animators through project work.

Current role: Motion Designer III — Creative Production / Marketing at trivago.

How I work

Creative craft.
Production thinking.

Product animation. Motion systems. AI workflows.

I animate product interfaces for TV and digital campaigns and build editable After Effects masters with expressions, scripts and Essential Graphics controls. The aim is to make product journeys clear and give designers and production partners templates they can adapt without rebuilding animations.

I introduced HeyGen lip-sync into TV production in 2023. I also evolved animatics from storyboard slideshows with voice-over into realistic, AI-assisted sequences that help teams understand, test and approve concepts before production.

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AI as a superpower

Still learning.
Still building.

I’m a motion designer who loves building solutions.

Vibe coding enabled me to build DVCE, a tool for generating videos from dynamic content. It’s an internal tool in development. I’m developing it around templates that can respond to external signals, apply data and be orchestrated by agents to produce videos at scale across formats and file types.

My professional development is self-directed, through project work and technical study. Since 2023, I’ve been studying and applying generative AI to creative production, turning production ideas into working tools.

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Selected film

Jean Pierre Marsala · Selected work