Hire the Best Adobe After Effects Designers Near Chicago

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Sasha Martynchuk

United States
Toptal Member Since May 23, 2019

Sasha is a product designer with 10 years of experience sketching, building, testing, and coaching, working with companies like Google, Atlassian, Edenred, FireArt, and JESS3. He uses fun UI, thoughtful UX, and creative problem-solving to produce human-centered digital experiences. Fanatically devoted to excellence, Sasha's passion lies in the traditions of creating and building from scratch.

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Todd Tibbetts

United States
Toptal Member Since December 11, 2021

Todd has been a full-time creative professional his entire career. He is a UX designer, Figma expert, video editor, and AI art enthusiast with a one-person studio in Seattle. Todd does app design, motion graphics, web design, UX design, app prototyping, presentations, and illustration. He's trustworthy, fun, friendly, on time, and on budget. His enthusiasm and love of design are infectious.

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Bill Hoffman

United States
Toptal Member Since January 11, 2022

Bill is a two-time NATAS Emmy® Award-winning editor, producer, and motion graphic designer. He is a seasoned post-production veteran with managerial and mentoring experience. The scope of his career encompasses short and long-form broadcast television, commercial and promo spot work, corporate video, sports, streaming, and live events. Clients include Warner Bros., Discovery, National Football and Hockey Leagues, Microsoft, Starbucks, Vanguard, Hyundai Capital, and all major television networks.

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Pacha Mallory

Freelance Adobe After Effects Designer
United States
Toptal Member Since September 4, 2023

Pacha is a senior motion graphics designer with 17+ years of professional experience and a fine arts degree in broadcast design. He specializes in 2D and 3D animation, graphic design, and kinetic typography with tools like After Effects, Illustrator, Cinema 4D, and Element 3D. Clients include Netflix, Paramount, CBS, and Annapurna. Pacha has an insatiable passion for creating compelling narratives through visual storytelling—whether meticulously crafting on-air promos or bringing UI's to life.

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Carlos Fernando Cabrera

Guatemala
Toptal Member Since September 2, 2022

Carlos, an accomplished 3D artist and graphic designer, brings a wealth of experience crafting compelling visuals for global brands and corporations. Praised for his meticulous attention to detail and top-tier brand visuals, he is recognized as a resourceful, self-motivated, and efficient leader. Carlos excels in managing demanding workloads and delivering exceptional results on time, fostering close client collaboration throughout the process.

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Beau Ryan

Canada
Toptal Member Since June 22, 2021

Beau is a motion and graphic designer with 13 years of experience working for major corporate brands and top employer organizations and agencies. He has strong knowledge of animation principles and applies them by collaborating, brainstorming, and communicating with internal stakeholders and project managers on large projects and award-winning campaigns. Beau creates project timelines to ensure timely and cost-efficient project completion by working closely with vendors and contract writers.

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Miguel Mora

Colombia
Toptal Member Since December 8, 2021

Miguel is an interactive media and UX/UI designer specializing in product strategy and customer service projects. His design input helped raise $50,000 in seed capital with Seedstars for a client's auto repair shop management software system. Miguel has co-founded two companies, delivered MVPs, managed teams, supervised quality, conducted user and stakeholder interviews, and delivered complete branding solutions.

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Ivan Martinez

United States
Toptal Member Since January 5, 2022

Ivan is a visual communicator and a UX designer with 10+ years of experience creating the brand identity of several companies and designing interfaces for iOS and Android, both desktop and mobile applications. Captivated by minimal clean design and digital arts, he has worked for industries like banking, fintech, cryptocurrency, and trading. His creativity defines Ivan, and he is continuously researching design trends to maintain an open mindset and thrive in new and challenging situations.

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Rob Devaney

United States
Toptal Member Since November 4, 2015

Rob is an award-winning New York City-based senior UX/UI designer with over 15 years experience designing products for some of the biggest companies in the world. Clients include ESPN, MetLife, Goldman Sachs, Cisco, The Hartford, Discovery Channel, Siemens, The United States Women's Ski Team, Fitch Ratings, Wolters Kluwer, Red Bull, Bain, GlaxoSmithKline, dozens of startups, and many more.

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Aaron Adler

United States
Toptal Member Since January 16, 2018

Aaron is a UX designer and front-end developer in NYC. He has worked on projects for Facebook, IBM, LinkedIn, R/GA, and Wells Fargo. Aaron's work has been recognized by Cannes, the Art Directors Club, and the New York Times. His focus is on UX design, working with Figma, Sketch, InVision, Framer, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and others.

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Benoît Chabert

United States
Toptal Member Since December 2, 2015

Benoît has been creating digital apps for the past seven years. Since 2014, he has led product designs for startups—helping them create a unified design system and acquire new users. Benoît can do everything from low-fidelity prototypes and user flows to designing pixel-perfect layouts that adapt to any digital device.

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Michael is an incredible designer, and has been a great fit for our project. He just gets it in a way that can’t be taught. My goal was to pay Toptal to find me a high quality designer for my project, and that is exactly what happened. It was easy. Being able to see the portfolio work on Toptal’s platform is what gave me the infomation I needed to choose Michael. I have nothing but good things to say about Toptal and am looking forward to using Toptal for other projects in the future.

Edward Daniel

Co-Founder

I've worked very closely with Martina for over a year and have to say she is one of the best people I have ever worked with. Instead of simply following instructions blindly, she thinks through the task at hand, becoming a thought partner to help with whatever the project may be. Besides being super talented at design, she possesses specific qualities that make her exceptional to work with given the fast paced nature of being a startup. I would definitely recommend her to anyone looking for a talented, professional designer who doesn't need much direction to hit the ground running.

Sahil Khanna

Sr. Manager, Marketing

Darko did a great job figuring out the user architecture for our concept, which led him to produce terrific wireframes. His knowledge of usability and design was a perfect match for the outside voice we needed to help jumpstart our project. We would certainly recommend him and work with him again in the future.

Rich Danker

Founder

Carlos has the unique talent of blending both quantitative and qualitative research to keenly identify UX challenges and opportunities. He thinks methodically, emphatically, and holistically to produce data-driven strategies and well-executed designs. Over the past 8 years of working with fully or partially distributed teams, Carlos manages working remotely far better than anyone I've encountered because of his strong communication and presentation skills. He is the first on my list the next time I need a UX designer.

Michelle Krogmeier

Project Manager

Rafael is an amazing designer. His aesthetic sense is spot on, and he seems to be able to anticipate our needs before we even know what they are. He's taken the time to understand both our company and our clientele, and his solutions are consistently in-line with our values, interests, and our customers' needs. He delivers on time (if not earlier), works quickly, is well organized, and very effective. He's a pleasure to work with, and we're very happy to have found him through Toptal.

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