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John Eagan

John Eagan

Senior Animator & Video Production Lead

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This reel shows just a few of the animation styles I create for product and tech brands: high-tech 3D explainers, clean 2D product explainers, 3D product visuals, wireframe/HUD design, kinetic typography, logo animation, and data visualization. I've spent 20 years in video production and animation. I can lead your whole team or roll up my sleeves and animate it myself, from concept and script through final delivery. What I can do for you: Explain a complex product or app in under a minute, so customers understand it right away Make your product look premium with polished 3D visuals and motion Turn all of your features, data, and processes into clear, engaging animation Match the style to your brand, from sleek and high-tech to bright and colorful Deliver launch videos, social cuts, and website explainers on a fast turnaround If you have a product people need to understand quickly, send me a message and let's make it click.
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Most leadership teams learn the lesson in this chart only after their first big AI video project goes over budget. AI video tools are excellent at ordinary shots: one person talking to camera, a product on a table, a slow walk down a hallway. Those come out clean and believable most of the time. As a shot gets more complex or unusual, the results change quickly. Crowds, hands doing detailed work, physics like water or collisions, and anything the model has rarely seen all drive hallucinations and mistakes up and accuracy to real life down. Past a certain point, you're generating dozens of versions to get one usable take, and an artist still has to fix it. If you're building your own AI video team, here's what that means: 🟢 Budget by shot type. Two 30-second spots can differ several times over in generation and cleanup time, depending on what's in them. 🟢 Write for the safe zone. Creative teams who understand the tools' limits will save you more money than any software license. 🟢 Keep traditional skills in the room. Compositing, animation and editing are how shots get rescued from the red zone. 🟢 Treat accuracy as a compliance issue. In regulated industries like pharma, health and finance, a wrong detail on screen can stall a review. AI video is a real production capability today. The companies that succeed with it plan around where it's strong and staff for where it isn't. (Curve is illustrative, based on what I see in production day to day.) I'm John Eagan. I've spent 20 years in video production and animation, and I built an AI video production department from the ground up at the largest advertising agency in the world. If your company is planning its own AI video team, send me a message. I'm glad to talk through where to start. #AIVideo #GenerativeAI #VideoProduction #Leadership #CreativeOps #Entrepreneurship
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Video and animation leader with 20 years of experience across 2D and 3D animation, motion graphics, live action, VFX, and editorial, who recently built the AI video production department at Omnicom, the world's largest advertising agency, from the ground up. I built the systems that allowed a brand to leverage new AI video technology, and I specialize in turning complex products and science into stories people want to watch. I still work hands-on, which keeps my judgment sharp and my teams fast.
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Your product is good. Your video needs to make people understand it in 60 seconds. I'm John, a video production lead and animator with 20 years in 2D, 3D, and now AI video production. I've spent 8 years as a senior animator and AI artist at Omnicom, where I built an AI video production department from the ground up. Through my studio, Dreamfire Films, I make explainer videos for tech products. What I do:
 • Explainer and product videos for SaaS, AI, and dev tools
 • Pharma and healthcare animation (I know the review process and the science)
 • AI video production: faster turnaround, cinematic quality, human-directed
 • Script, storyboard, voiceover, animation, and final delivery, all in one place You get agency-level work without agency overhead or timelines. Message me with your product and deadline, and I'll tell you how I'd approach it.
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