Jacob
Game Developer
Summary
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RockstarJacob is a game developer with five years of hands-on experience building interactive front-end experiences and tooling. He is the creator of Motion Canvas and a YouTuber, combining education and open-source work to help others visualize ideas with code. His notable contributions to the motion-canvas project include building a timeline, custom node components, a color picker, and other UI features using a React-based stack to improve authoring workflows. Jacob blends practical game-dev instincts with UI/UX sensibilities, focusing on developer-facing tools that make creative coding more accessible. He tends to tackle both design and implementation, demonstrating a knack for turning visual concepts into polished, user-friendly interfaces.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
preact10
typescript10
javascript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
user-experience9
animation9
ux-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
motion-canvas/motion-canvas
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
Visualize Your Ideas With Code
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:391 reviews, 400 commits, 860 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily worked on enhancing the user interface by implementing a range of features within the Motion Canvas project. Their contributions included creating a timeline, adding visual elements such as a circle, and also involved building new node components and a color picker. They focused on incorporating the creation of custom UIs and enhancing user experience, which were integrated through the use of react-based framework and technologies.
animationpresentationvisualization
motion-canvas/examples
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
A set of examples for Motion Canvas
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 3 PRs in 8 months
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