Zachary Barrat

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Website : zacharybarrat.netlify.app I’m Zachary Barrat, a motion designer and graphic designer based in Paris, and I love turning ideas into clear, expressive visuals at the crossroads of creativity and technical…

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Website : zacharybarrat.netlify.app

I’m Zachary Barrat, a motion designer and graphic designer based in Paris, and I love turning ideas into clear, expressive visuals at the crossroads of creativity and technical precision. From motion design to live-action and sound-led visuals, I build cohesive digital experiences where every detail supports the message.

I also use AI as a real creative partner—helping me iterate faster, explore new styles, and enhance the production pipeline—while staying grounded in strong art direction. Available for agencies, studios, or freelance collaborations, I enjoy partnering with teams to create teasers, campaigns, UGC content, and event visuals that consistently look sharp across formats.

  • Joined September 2026

Industry experience

  • Media & Entertainment
  • Software & Internet
  • Education
  • Professional Services

Projects · 4

NeoPhi is an AI platform dedicated to scientific research. It helps researchers discover, connect and synthesise academic literature through semantic search across more than a hundred million scientific papers, knowledge graph visualisation and automated literature review generation. For six months, within the communication team, I was in charge of all the brand’s visuals, rolled out across its three target platforms: Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. I handled graphic direction and animation on my own, in close collaboration with the team, while the content and copy were developed on their side. The product launch came with an iconographic teaser, designed to make a complex technology clear and appealing from the very first contact. It was adapted to 16:9 and 9:16 formats to fit every distribution channel.

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Pointed and eclectic electronic music, live artistic performances and fashion shows: for four years, the Morninglory collective has been bringing these worlds together in its own events. Most of the songs that accompany them are also produced by the artists who perform at these evenings. I joined the collective as a graphic art director in December 2025. My work covers different types of visual content, mainly trailers, posters and some of their content for social networks. Some projects rely on generative AI tools for image and video creation, upscaling, interpolation and editing, including Midjourney, Kling, Firefly, Veo3 and Nanobanana. The generation of images and videos is based on a particularly precise prompt work, essential to achieve this type of result. However, these generations are only a starting point: they are then integrated into an image processing workflow, mainly carried out on After Effects, where rhythm, visual adjustments and typographic animation combine to give each creation its coherence and identity. Continuing the work built with the collective, this teaser marks Morninglory's fifth anniversary, conceived as a more premium event than previous editions. Where earlier editions took the form of animated posters, this anniversary called for something more immersive. The art direction lightens and turns towards white and minimalism, for a rarer, more controlled atmosphere. The animation follows one continuous movement, from the nano to the macro-organism, like a slow pull back through the scales of living matter. Along the way, organic materials unfold into almost extraterrestrial forms, echoing moments from the fashion shows and tying the image to the stage.

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XENON is a logo conceived as an open concept - an identity that could just as easily belong to a technology company or to the world of a video game. The name refers to the noble gas: that cold, electric light of discharge tubes and xenon headlights, which runs through the whole piece. Its form and typography are built around a futuristic X, halfway between a neon sign and organic strangeness, with an almost extraterrestrial quality that unsettles the first reading. The movement is carried by procedural glass membranes, unfolding and breathing around the letters like living, almost gaseous matter, as if the name were taking shape before your eyes. The contrast between the stillness of the sign and the agitation of the material is the piece's central tension. Post-production was done in After Effects from a multi-layer EXR 3D render, allowing each pass to be reworked independently. Layer adjustment, grading, density, rhythm and speed were all refined to give the whole a more cinematic dimension and reinforce that sense of light trapped inside glass. The sound design, generated with Suno, completes the atmosphere and grounds XENON in a sonic world of its own.

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A precise, documented timeline tracing the history of the Air Max, from its origins to today. Selected as a finalist at the Chatons d'Or 2025. Made as part of a school project and loosely inspired by Ted-Ed, this video traces the evolution of the Air Max from its beginnings to the present day. The art direction is deliberately raw: cutaway views, crisp typographic blocks, light grain and a sober palette, to put the information first. The narrative is built around a timeline: design context, technical breakthroughs (Air units, materials, shapes), iconic releases and cultural impact. All the content is based on real data: dates, models and innovations. The final sequence, generated with AI, bridges this "explained world" and physical reality, as if stepping out of a manual and straight into the object.

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  • Graphic Designer
  • Motion Graphic Designer

Work experience· 5 roles

Motion Designer / Graphic Designer (intern) · NeoPhiJan 2026 – Aug 2026 · 8 mos

Teaser and animated demo for the launch of an AI tool dedicated to scientific research. Paid ads campaigns (video and static) adapted to every format. Instagram and LinkedIn content: carousels, videos, UGC from shoot to edit. Layout of the tool’s white paper.

Art Director (freelance) · MorningloryDec 2025 – Sep 2026 · 10 mos

Event video teasers: over 100,000 views. Posters, posts and visuals adapted to every format (4:5, 1:1, 9:16, 16:9).

Motion Designer (apprenticeship) · WeneedsSep 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Created motion-design videos to promote an AI-based recruitment platform. Integrated sound design and graphic elements from Figma. Designed and structured storyboards for promotional videos to support clear storytelling and production flow.

Motion Designer / Graphic Designer / Art Director (freelance) · FreelanceJan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos
Assistant Art Director (freelance) · Le Second MarchéJan 2023 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs

Education

Master 1 Motion Design · IIM2025 – 2026
Master's, Economics of Culture and Digital Media · Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne2014 – 2019

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