Jay Liquori
MOTION DESIGNER & PRODUCER
Award-winning motion designer with 15+ years of experience in broadcast news, documentary, and brand design. Part of a team that contributed to 30+ Emmy nominations over five consecutive years. Specialist in graphics packages, toolkits, bespoke animations, infographics, and maps. Fully remote since 2020, with a strong track record of cross-functional collaboration.
Big Small Motion
Executive Producer 2024–current
Providing motion design packages and design services for projects and clients of all sizes.
NBC News
Motion graphic designer, 2024
Supporting the digital news team, I worked closely with senior leadership, producers, editors and assistants to publish weekly mini documentaries and breaking news. Crafted the identity for an election-year series "24on24." Created infographics and maps that saw large engagement nationally, on digital and linear.
Vice Media
Motion graphic designer, 2018–2024
Worked closely with producers, composers, copy editors, illustrators, designers, and animators to create bespoke graphic and motion design for nightly, weekly, and documentaries, as well as branding for recurring news shows and live events. Created title sequences, labels, infographics, maps, and explainers.
VICE SPECIAL REPORT
Contributed to motion graphics for long-form documentaries as well as animation for the Peabody-nominated special: “No Justice for Women in the Taliban’s Afghanistan”
VICE NEWS TONIGHT
Contributed to motion graphics in the daily news cycle. The show received the most Emmy nominations of any newscast for five consecutive years
VICE INVESTIGATES ON HULU
Motion graphics lead, one-person graphics department 2019 Best TV Documentary Emmy “Amazon on Fire”
VICE ON HBO
Motion graphics lead, one-person graphics department
Viacom/CBS
Senior Designer/Animator, 2011–2018
VELOCITY, 2018
Created branded content, design and animation for integrated marketing.
PARAMOUNT NETWORK / SPIKE 2011–2017
Contributed to design and art direction for on-air brand marketing. Worked on the network re-brand, created on-air graphic promo packages, designed logos, and developed key art. Designed logo and in-show branding for Bellator MMA, an international mixed martial arts league.
Showtime
Motion graphic designer, 2006-2011
Designer/animator for on-air marketing creating promo graphics for the network.
Skills, software
After Effects: Motion Design, Animation, Toolkits creation, Logo animation, Special Effects, Expressions/Coding, GEOlayers and map-making
Adobe Suite: Video Editing (Premiere), Compositing (Ps, Ae)
Teamwork: Figma, Slack, Asana, Trello, Google Workplace
Branding & Logo Design
Art Direction
Videography
QGis: Map data
Passions and Interests: Ice Hockey, Meme Culture, Storytelling, Board Games, Card Games, Role Playing Games