Yongsub Song — Motion Designer

Yongsub Song is a motion graphic artist whose site is organised the way a filmography is: one page per project, each carrying its own credit block. The gallery below mirrors that structure, so every entry lands on the page he wrote for it.

What he does

Song's specialism is the animated half of a title sequence, plus the graphical user interface work that feature films and games need to look convincing. Previsualisation, lead 3D animation, motion tests, map and information graphics. A lot of it was produced at Elastic under creative director Patrick Clair, and an earlier stretch at Prologue Films under Danny Yount.

Works in the gallery

The Elastic run is the spine of the portfolio. Hitman - World Of Assassination is trailer animation with Clair as creative director. Call Of Duty Black Ops III Ember is tease animation from the same pairing. Winter On Fire covers the main title along with the map information animation, which for a documentary about the Ukrainian protests carried real reporting weight. Adidas Original is commercial animation, and Minority Report is main title animation, both produced at Elastic.

Before that came the Prologue Films work. Oblivion is credited as title and main-on-end, motion test and animation, with Danny Yount as creative director. Iron Man III covers main-on-end and phone graphical user interface motion tests, again under Yount. X-Men Days Of Future Past put him on main title previsualisation and lead 3D animation with Ilya V. as creative director.

The television block has grown since: Westworld, Carnival Row, The Punisher, His Dark Materials, Doom Patrol, Hunters and The Politician each have their own project page. Games and features fill out the rest, including Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as a graphical user interface concept motion test, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Prometheus and Terminator Genisys.

Two entries are personal. Singularity is an audio-visual collaboration between two teams built around the idea of singularity. The Bug is his thesis animation from 2010, made during the MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts, and it asks what video game characters would be if they had their own will. Odd premise. It sticks with you.

Portfolio highlights

• HITMAN WORLD OF ASSASSINATION - TRAILER ANIMATION Creative Director: Patrick Clair Produced at Elastic
• CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS III EMBER - TEASE ANIMATION Creative Director: Patrick Clair Produced at Elastic
• WINTER ON FIRE - MAIN TITLE/MAP INFO ANIMATION Creative Director: Patrick Clair Produced at Elastic
• MINORITY REPORT - MAIN TITLE ANIMATION Produced at Elastic — Creative Director: Patrick Clair
• METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN - GUI CONCEPT MOTION TEST Full credits coming soon...
• ADIDAS ORIGINAL - COMMERCIAL ANIMATION Creative Director: Patrick Clair Produced at Elastic
• DESIGN/ANIMATION Frames of animations in many projects
• X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST - MAIN TITLE PREVIZ/LEAD 3D ANIMATION Creative Director: Ilya V.
• OBLIVION - TITLE/MAIN ON END MOTION TEST/ANIMATION | Creative Director: Danny Yount Produced at Prologue Films
• IRON MAN III - MAIN ON END/PHONE GUI MOTION TEST | Creative Director: Danny Yount Produced at Prologue Films
• An Audio-Visual collaboration between two teams, presenting the idea of Singularity ЖЗ is an episode in which something occurs or is played.
• THE BUG Thesis animation in 2010 at MFA, Computer Art in School of Visual Arts If video game characters have their own will, What are they?
• THE REASON WHY YONGSUB SONG DIDN'T COMMIT SUICIDE - Pictographic animation in 2005 for RESFEST Festival 2005 and BFA, Visual Communication & Multimedia Design graduation exhibition in Konkuk Univ. This story is about me.

Links

• Portfolio: yongsubsong.com
• Full project index: yongsubsong.com/projects
• About: yongsubsong.com/about-me