Experience Animations
Lead animator for creating style and brand alignment for site accent moments and microinteractions.
Strategic visual direction specializing in advanced motion design.
Lead animator for creating style and brand alignment for site accent moments and microinteractions.
Concepted and led the production for several animated banner promos.
Set the standards and style for a redesign of the icon library.
Lead style and template creation for several promotional email series. Developed methods to reduce GIF sizes under 1MB.
Created motion designs for static campaigns when displayed on video screens at branches nationwide.
Stadium-screens sequence engineered to dynamically scale across variable wide stadium screen aspects.
Directed and animated lessons for Haas School of Business curriculum series.
Wrote script treatments and directed two multi-video series summarizing banking culture guidelines.
Designed visual character assets and custom layouts, animating interactive lessons for the internal L&D portal.
Directed and animated a whimsical corporate explainer adventure summarizing cloud infrastructure optimization.
Hero digital graphic representing clean energy architecture used for environmental summit key art.
Promotional banner art designed to introduce the bank's internal staff training portal system.
Mike Bates is a multidisciplinary motion designer, director, and art director. He collaborates with creative teams, marketing groups, and digital agencies to construct visual assets that translate complex features into satisfying, elegant animations.
Combining precise vector layouts with smooth dynamic choreography, his work spans across user experience microinteractions, high-impact stadium promo screens, educational video series, and conceptual brand systems.
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