| Jen Rizzo likes you. rizzo.jen@gmail.com 513.375.4771 Senior designer, living and working in the Mission District of San Francisco. Current and recent projects include:
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UX/UI/animation created for Nectarine Group, Palo Alto, CA. The client approached me with wireframes and an initial visual direction, and over the course of four weeks we finalized their UX wireframes, updated and refined their style and created this animation as a guide for the personality we'd like to impart. (Click to play animation) |
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One in a series of Oracle product support videos. Created in conjunction with CPR under the artistic direction of David Read and Katy Sunderhaus. (Click to play animation) |
   I was contacted by Intellum in Autumn of 2010 to concept and create an animation to promote Rollbook, their Learning Management System. Co-created with Lawson Kight, this two minute product demo showcases the basic features of Rollbook and encourages potential users to sign up for a free trial. My role focused on project management, initial style concepting and animation, while Lawson is largely responsible for style and asset creation, as well as half of the animation.(Click any image to play animation; 31MB H.264 .mp4) |
     Fitness Anywhere asked me to design a motion graphics package for them to use on a DVD that comes packaged with their equipment. This is one of three main parts of that package - a 3D model showing the parts of the TRX to introduce the components of the device. (Click any image to play animation; 19.4MB H.264 .mov) |
 Sprint Tutorials - 2008-2009 A series of animations created while freelancing for Bars+Tone, San Francisco, CA. Shown here are the shots from the first four phones. The linked animation is for the Palm Pre. I held an ongoing role as their 3D animator from the beginning of the project in October 2008 until December 2009, as well as managing the production pipeline and animating additional 2D effects as necessary. (Click to play; 10.5MB H.264 .mov) |
 Watershed - Winter 2009 - Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects An animation completed on an incredibly short deadline with Transvideo Studios of Mountain View, CA. Watershed is Ustream's newest product, a broadcasting tool geared at small to medium sized businesses. They approached Transvideo to produce a motion piece that would be used to unveil the product at CES 2009 as well as be shown as an introduction on their website. My primary role in this project was animating the first 30 seconds or so up to the Watershed reveal. (Click to play; 24.6MB H.264 .mov) |
 Paloma Picasso Cufflinks - Winter 2008 - Cinema 4D This was part of a series of experiments I did for Tiffany. We really wanted to explore the tactile properties of some of their jewelry, so we focused on some of the designer pieces and did some detailed renders. This was an incredibly simple animation, but I loved the textures. (Click to play; 6.2MB H.264 .mov) |
  Tropicana - Winter 2008 - Cinema 4D & SketchUp Pro As part of FRCH's involvement with Tropicana, we created a DVD showing various areas of the complex. I created the animations for the convention center and retail corridors. This working pipeline was a fun experiment for us: I worked closely with a co-worker who was experienced using SketchUp. She did the initial modeling and texturing, then passed it off to me to light it, animate the camera and add aditional details to both model and texture. Design credit to FRCH Design Worldwide.(Click to play; 18.9/6.3MB H.264 .mov) |
 Sunglass Hut - Autumn 2007 - Cinema 4D These are visualizations for a new configuration of a Sunglass Hut retail location. Design credit to FRCH Design Worldwide. |
  Godiva - Spring 2007 - Cinema 4D These are visualizations for a new configuration of a Godiva retail location. It was the most delicious project ever. It was also one of the fastest - the whole model came together in less than a week. Design credit to FRCH Design Worldwide. |
 Virgin - Spring 2007 - Cinema 4D This is a visualization of a Virgin Records store. We went through a few design revisions on this one. I was responsible for some merchandising, modeling fixtures, animating, and creating updated textures. Design credit to FRCH Design Worldwide. (Click to play; 15.6MB H.264 .mov) |
   Under Armour Flagship - Spring 2007 - Cinema 4D FRCH designed the Under Armour flagship store in Annapolis, MD. These images are from a flythrough created to help them visualize the fixtures in the space, as well as show the client our interpretation of the underbelly of a stadium applied to retail. This was my first project where they allowed me to be the sole designer. Design credit to FRCH Design Worldwide. |
   Moynihan Station - 2006 - 3D Studio Max These are assorted visualizations for the Moynihan Station redesign. My role at SOM was a fun one: as the design was ongoing, I would take drawings and visualize them so we could really get a sense of the space before any solid decisions were made. Connector stair section is entirely by me. Full building section and details created with Matt Beharry. Design credit to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, NYC. |