Zoe Crocker is a Senior at Never Sit Still, the studio she’s called home since graduating from UTS. Whilst Zoe was a student, she was awarded a Distinction by the Australian Graphic Design Association, and she’s since been a finalist for AGDA’s acclaimed award, the ‘Emerging Designer of the Year’.

Zoe is an active member of the creative community. She has spoken at industry events, been on the jury for the AGDA Awards, lectured at UTS, and been featured on Adobe’s APAC Livestream series.

During her time at Never Sit Still, Zoe has worked closely with clients such as Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Pinterest, Event Cinemas and more.

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Sally is an experienced Motion Design Director with a passion for creativity and collaboration. With over 20yrs industry experience in television under her belt she has directed many highly experienced teams in both free to air and subscription television.

This Node she’s going to dive deep into what it takes to manage team of designers and what she’s learned doing so over the last couple of decades.

Patrick Da Cunha is a creative director and 3d artist at Cadre Pictures. With close to two decades of experience across many roles, both freelance and full time at various Melbourne and Sydney studios.

Over the last few years he has focused on trying to find a balanced approach to jobs. That blends technical pipe-line driven workflows with creative and design based problem solving. He feels lucky to be working with the very talented team at Cadre Pictures, where he gets to apply this mixed approach across a diverse range of work.

Always passionate to discuss anything design related. Pat is looking forward to sharing more about his experiences as well as Cadres approach to pipeline and work.

Mark is a creative director and 3D artist in architecture, advertising and design at Mr P Studios in Melbourne.

His work has covered everything from small, commercial and cultural design projects to global architectural competitions, and he has been published in the New York Times, Archdaily, Designboom, Dezeen, and more.

I was born in a small town in northern Italy in 1987. I always had an inclination for the arts, and after finishing art school, I took a degree in visual communication. Thanks to uni I got the chance to travel, and one of these trips got me to Brisbane, where I met “Motion design” tada!

Over the years I kept doing design jobs here and there, from helping make a PowerPoint “look cool” to branding, and illustrations, I think I was freelancing, but never called myself a freelancer ha!. After an internship at Jumbla, I decided to continue my path into motion as a freelancer, or better to start a small studio with my partner Mike Lomas (whom I also met at Jumbla).

We both worked as contractors for a product development company for a couple of years. In 2016 we officially started Gramm! We sailed the crazy seas of small studio business for about 6 years when we decided that it was time to move on again. So now I’m a fresh new addition to the Buck Sydney family, as a designer.

Hey I'm bel! A 2D motion designer based in Melbourne, Australia. I create motion design & illustration for brands, marketing & advertising.

With over a decade of experience in the design industry, working in Australia in the UK, I've recently made a jump into the freelancing world, I now collaborate with agencies to produce motion for brands including Tennis Australia, headspace, eBay, Beyond Blue & Climate Active.

My goal is to produce award-winning animations for agencies and companies with positive cultural and social impact.

My style is bold, fun and bright with a strong focus on story, character and design. I primarily use After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop.

A natural desire to always play with the best of them, Adrian has been fortunate to work around the globe and collaborate with some incredible studios, artists and brands.

After many years of traveling he found his true home amongst like minded individuals when he joined the FutureDeluxe team as Creative Director in London. After helping grow the London studio he has now moved to Australia to set up FD Sydney.

The three studios have a strong ‘No Ego’s’ rule, meaning the team will always collaborate openly with one another. There is strong and joint belief in “killing it with kindness”; Creating the best work for the worlds brightest brands while still remaining kind and honest people.

This simple philosophy has seen Adrian produced work with Converse , Apple, Absolute, Jordan, XXXX, Optus, Rimowa, FX Legion and Diador.