Kiyoon Nam — Motion Designer

Kiyoon Nam is a Korean-American motion designer and art director working in Los Angeles. He studied motion design at Ringling College of Art and Design and began his television title work at Imaginary Forces, where a 2017 internship put him on the Counterpart main titles as animator and compositor. The works below link to his own portfolio at knam.tv for verified credits.

What his work covers

Nam's portfolio sits across two territories that rarely share one reel. The first is broadcast and streaming title design, the slow, typographic, mood-setting kind of work that has to survive being watched a hundred times by the same viewer. The second is campaign and brand work for games and consumer clients, where the same craft gets compressed into something that has a few seconds to land.

That range shows in the client list running through his documented projects: Netflix, Amazon Prime, Showtime, STARZ, epix, Riot Games, BMW, Chanel, SK-II, BET, and Zoom.

Title design and the Counterpart sequence

The clearest anchor in his body of work is Counterpart, the STARZ series produced with MRC. Its main title sequence, made at Imaginary Forces with Nam animating and compositing, won the 2018 Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Design. It remains the credit his profile is most often searched against.

Other title and documentary work sits in the same register: The Confession Tapes for Netflix, Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, SUPERVILLAIN: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine, and Jack Ryan for Amazon Prime.

Brand, broadcast and campaign work

Away from titles the portfolio moves into identity and campaign territory. The epix rebrand and the Euro Cup broadcast package are network-scale identity jobs, where a system has to hold together across bumpers, lower thirds and promos. Riot Games LCS 2018 and the BET Movements Campaign are campaign pieces built for broadcast and social delivery at the same time.

Shorter pieces round out the range: a Chanel brand ID mixing 3D and live action, SK-II "VS Rules", BMW M, Zoom Docs, a Google Doodle made for International Forest Day, an Alzheimer's Association public-service piece, and a Yule Log loop.

Where to see more

Each entry in the gallery above links to that work's page on the artist's own site. For moving-image versions his Vimeo channel carries the reels, and his Behance portfolio holds earlier student and personal projects, including the Thrash Fest boards and the 2104 dystopian sci-fi exploration.