Emma Kingsnorth - Motion Designer

I am an experienced creative, motion designer and illustrator working across animation, illustration, motion graphics, visual effects, editing and design.

Most recently working in-house with the marketing team at Sketch and hand-in-hand with the product teams, to create feature videos to show off new releases, website animations and social posts to showcase Sketch. As the sole motion designer, I was responsible for working through the entire process from the conceptual stage, through storyboarding and animation.

I have worked on a huge range of projects from commercials, interactive advertising, presentations and exhibitions for clients including Facebook, Google, BBC & Redbull at agencies including VCCP, RKCR/YR & Across the Pond

I am a member of Brunel University's Industry Advisory Panel for the 'Digital Design'​ and ​'VFX & Motion Graphics' courses. I also guest lecture for the university.


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    Showreel 2026










    Sketch Copenhagen Teaser
    Client: Sketch
    Role: Concept, storyboard, animator

    It was a hard task to showcase all of the beautiful icons that had been created for the new version of Sketch but this short animation seamlessly moves from one icon to the next, panning out to show the impressive collection of icons made. The simple, smooth and polished animation really lets these icons shine.





    Sketch End of Year 2025
    Client: Sketch
    Role: Concept, storyboard, animator

    The End of Year video needed to stand out, to be a real firework to the end of a sucessful year at Sketch. The beautiful gold and black design sets the scene for a high-end, polished showcase of great features. 
    Animating the titles in the style of the feature was a great way to let the user know straight away what we were showing and this simple animation technique worked really well. The final film is both engaging and informative, an exciting end to the year.





    Sketch Copenhagen Launch
    Client: Sketch
    Role: Concept, storyboard, animator

    Sketch had a major overhaul and this beautiful new UI needed a beautiful new video to match. Focusing on the new glass toolbar made for an impactful start. We then gently pan around the rest of the UI to showcase the new tools and features.




    Shapes
    Client: Personal
    Role: Concept, animator

    I set myself some goals to put out some new animations more reguarly, the first one I started playing with colour and shapes and this little pop of colour was the end result.



    Sketch 101 Launch
    Client: Sketch
    Role: Concept, storyboard, animator

    The Sketch 101 launch had a lot to live up to after the success and hype of 100 so this needed to be a great video - eyecatching, informative, colourful  and exciting.






    Sketch 100 Launch

    Client: Sketch
    Role: Concept, storyboard, animator

    The Sketch 100 video needed to be iconic, to celebrate this landmark release. The branding for 100 is brave and bold and this is reflected in the video. Using a limited colour palette and some smooth transitions, the video guides the user through the updates which are featured in the Sketch 100 release.





    Sketch Rebrand video

    Client: Sketch
    Role: Storyboard, animator

    Sketch was about to launch their beautiful new rebrand and needed an impactful launch video to show the world their new look.
    This video was technically very complex, the gradients moving and morphing along with the shapes and grain took a lot of planning and concentration but the result was just what I had hoped.




    Sketch Smart Layout Launch

    Client: Sketch
    Role: Concept, storyboard, animator

    Showcasing the updates featured in the latest Smart Layout update. This video was really nice to work on, using lots of shape layers and fun transitions made moving across each of the features seamless.






    Facebook Business Illustrations

    Client: Meta
    Role: Illustrator

    I worked with Facebook Business to create a comprehensive illustration library, making a wide range of assets to be used in their work.
    The style was set but only a very limited range of illustrations had been created so the challenge was to push the style on to create lots more assets in this style.





    Showreel  2020







    Pret Organic Social
    Client: Byte
    Role: Animator

    Working with the team at Byte to create a number of social posts for Pret's new summer launch.





    Google Digital Garage Series

    Client: Across The Pond
    Role: Lead illustrator and animator

    I worked as lead illustrator and animator with a team to produce a series of educational and learning videos for Google Digital Garage and localising them to a number of different languages. The Digital Garage provides tutorials to help people improve their business website and online presence. This short film shows some of the work which I was responsible for overseeing, animating and illustrating.




    Charlotte Tilbury TVC - Magic Cream

    Client: Charlotte Tilbury
    Role: Animator

    Working with the team at Charlotte Tilbury to help produce their Magic Cream TV ad. I worked in After Effects on shots to add text and sparkles.



    Costa DOOH Summer Campaign

    Client: Wellcom WW
    Role: Animator

    I worked with Wellcom WW to create the Costa DOOH Summer Campaign





    HGTV Speak - List It

    Client: Scripps
    Role: Concept, storyboard, illustrator, animator

    Working with Scripps to create a series of short animations for HGTV Speak. I concepted, storyboarded, illustrated and animated the shorts which explain the definition of a word related to house renovation.