Richard Beerens is a freelance multidisciplinary motion designer and director. He helps clients to turn ideas into visual stories and creates designs and animations that are aesthetic and powerful. He currently lives and works as a freelancer in Amsterdam.
His versatile background and 14+ years of experience working in the creative industry enables him to help clients with a broad range of services. He takes responsibility over concept development and art direction, and guides storyboard development, visual design, illustration, animation, motion graphics and digital design processes towards high quality deliverables and results that exceed expectations. He always works with a hands-on mentality. When a project asks for it, his network allows him to scale up and collaborate with creative talent. He prefers to work in ego-free cultures with passionate creatives that prioritize creating quality work.
Brands & agencies
Throughout his career, he has had the privilege to work for brands such as: Philips, Booking.com, Meta, Audi, Kia, BMW, Decathlon, The Ocean Cleanup, Treebytree, Rituals, Vodafone, Ziggo, Superstellar, Keune, Rijksmuseum, Robinhood, Stellar, TrustWallet and many more. Also he has collaborated with many agencies such as Ueno, Serviceplan, Pilotfish, Wunderman Thomson, DEPT, Yune, MediaMonks, AKQA, DTT, LamaLama, Code D'Azur, Bttr, 180 Amsterdam, Isobar, dentsuACHTUNG, Kingdom of Something, Persuade, Popcorn Brain, Glasnost, Edelman, Eyeforce, DPPLR, Bolden, The Compound and many more.
Background
Previously, he worked at the advertising agency Wunderman Thompson (fka J. Walter Thompson) in Amsterdam. Here he fulfilled several roles such as digital designer, motion designer and art director. He then worked as a freelancer for several creative agencies and companies. He freelanced for Philips Design & Healthcare as both a digital designer and motion designer for many years, collaborating closely with multiple team leads. He co-owned the Amsterdam based production studio TILT - specialized in design, animation and film - where he served as the hands-on creative director guiding the creative team (~6 fte), freelancers and partners. Since 2021 he went back to freelancing and now takes on freelance gigs and is open to what the future may bring.
Services
- 2D motion design
- 2D character animation
- 2D character rigging
- 3D motion design (additional)
- Cel animation (additional)
- Visual design
- UI/UX design
- Branding
- Motion systems
- Concept development
- Creative direction
- Art direction
- Storyboarding
- Script development
Tools
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Audition
- Adobe Media Encoder
- Maxon Cinema 4D
- Figma
- Sketch
- ProCreate
- ProCreate Dreams
- Lottie
- Rive
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