Justin Kinard
Motion Designer at Kinardist Media, LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Kinard is a Hybrid Creative Technologist and Motion Designer based in New York with nine years of experience crafting 3D assets, animations, AR/VR experiences, and production pipelines for brands like MAC Cosmetics, Nike, and Shiseido. He blends creative direction with engineering—authored pipeline tools and core APIs, led teams, and delivered measurable engagement and sales lifts across campaigns. At Kinardist Media he drives end-to-end projects from concept to interactive deployment, and has taught AR/XR and 3D best practices to clients. Comfortable coding in P5, Python and C++ while shipping cinematic CGI, he bridges artistry and technical rigor to shorten turnaround and scale studio workflows. A detail that often gets overlooked: he moves fluidly between hands-on animation and backend pipeline engineering, enabling both creative vision and production efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Regents Diploma, Regents Diploma at Science Skills Center High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Game and Interactive Media Design, Undergrad, Bachelor’s Degree, Game and Interactive Media Design, Undergrad at Parsons School of DesignTripleTen
English, Spanish, Korean
Github Skills (5)
twitter10
p5js9
javascript9
html9
canvas7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thekinardist/Programming
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
thekinardist/CoreLabSpring17
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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