Reel 2026

excecution · exploration

Motion Design Director · Art Director

Benjamin Cone

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[ ABOUT ]

lost in the pixels · head in the clouds

finding the bold truth hidden in the brief

Motion Design Director located in the Bay Area with twelve years across brand, experiential and product. Most of my work happens before anything even moves. Whether I'm reading the room and listening to what a team actually wants or pushing the idea until it's braver than the brief, I pride myself on understanding the deeper meaning underlying the work.

AI is a major tool in my toolkit that I use everyday. It clears the busy work buying back more time for the human element: taste, judement and the last 10% that take something from good to great.

[ Profile ]

Current

Skycar Creative

Experience

12 Yrs

Base

SF Bay Area, CA

Trained

SVA, NYC

practice

[ creative direction ]

[ motion design ]

[ pitch + concept ]

[ experiential ]

AI · In pipeline

[ Concept + look dev ]

[ tool building ]

[ plugins ]

[ Production Management ]

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[ Lab ]

Tools + experiments · CRAFTED AI

/ Lab

4 Projects

[ Media · Motion Gym ]

02 · Tool

Motion Gym

A motion design library I’m training to understand taste. It builds a working lexicon of creative intent and workflow: why one move feels premium and another feels cheap, and what a note like “make it pop” actually means. It learns two ways, from publicly available projects paired with notes and straight from the data inside After Effects projects. Scattered client feedback becomes a structured library of what lands and what doesn’t, and it feeds directly into Vibe Effects, so every lesson becomes something I can act on.

Stack

Claude · Python · Frame.io · After Effects

Status

In development

AI Role

Learns taste from notes + projects

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[ Clients ]

Selected · 30+ total

QUALCOMM

ADOBE

NETFLIX

AMAZON

MATTEL

MARVEL

ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC

SONOS

ILLUMINARIUM

BETHESDA

UBISOFT

SNAPCHAT

Microsoft · Waymo · TNT · MTV · LinkedIn · HBO · Universal · Illumination Studios · VH1 · Panasonic · Hulu · Intel · Radical Media · Jim Beam · Quibi … and more

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[ Contact ]

37.9241° N · 122.3832° W

© 2026 Benjamin Cone

SF Bay Area · 37.9241° N 122.3832° W

12 col · 4px unit · Barlow + Plex Mono