Toby Johnson, freelance graphic and motion designer in Lincoln
I’m Toby, a freelance graphic and motion designer based in Lincoln. I work across campaign artwork, motion and 3D for brands, artists and agencies.
Selected work.
Brand, campaign, motion and 3D.
19 projects
3D coin animation commissioned by Angel & Anchor for Twelfth Man, its collaboration coffee with Cult celebrating the studio's 12th birthday. The concept borrows from football's twelfth man: the supporters behind the team, reflecting the studio's support for its clients. I modelled, textured, lit and animated a silver referee's coin in Blender using Angel & Anchor's supplied artwork, then composited and graded the flip in After Effects for social and carousel content.
View project: Twelfth ManLead campaign artwork for Brighton Dome's Together We Stand, a four-label collaboration (New Soil, Bridge The Gap, Jazz Re:freshed, Women in Jazz) featuring Balimaya Project, corto.alto and Rebecca Vasmant Live Ensemble. The brief: one visual strong enough to carry four label identities and three headline acts without leaning on any of them. Built as a 3D block system in modern colour, with a motion variant cut for social. Used across announce, web, print distro and Brighton Dome's wider poster runs.
View project: Together We StandCampaign artwork for The Pylons' Grumble, built from a film shoot on location in Lincolnshire. Composited in Photoshop with a 3D-sculpted sign rig holding a broken title above a desolate backdrop. Designed to feel half-abandoned, half-forgotten. Used across release banners and artist profile imagery.
View project: GrumbleTour poster for Jgrrey's "Playing gigs just so I can see you" run, advertising her Radio 1 Big Weekend slot, Bristol's Dot to Dot and Last Time Out, Leeds. Floating moons built as 3D spheres in Blender, run through Photoshop threshold and gradients to sit flat against the blueprint indigo. Heavy stock print.
View project: JgrreyRelease animation for my single Your Cries, self-released in 2022. The plan was a music video of a body falling gracefully through the sky. With no budget for that, I leaned a chair back in the studio, filmed myself falling off it, and rotoscoped the footage in After Effects. That single take carried the whole release: the still became the artwork, the rotoscoped loop became the Spotify Canvas and the Apple Music animated cover art.
View project: Your CriesGig poster for a Filtered night at Angel Coffee House in Lincoln. I named the event, branded it, and played it. The type is built around the spiral of a stirred coffee, tying the music to the room it ran in. Teal ink, heavy type, A3.
View project: FilteredIdentity and packaging for Offcut, a small Herefordshire workshop building clocks from the floorboards of a decommissioned chapel in Leintwardine. The brand had to carry the provenance of the wood without leaning sentimental. Marks, packaging and printed collateral were built around that single material story. Offcut now ships timepieces across the UK from the same workshop.
View project: OffcutSelf-initiated 3D product render for Health Plus, a concept supplement brand. Modelled, textured and lit in Blender.
View project: Health PlusLyric video for Common Request's Liar Liar. Built around the look of a terminal print-out, with the lyrics threaded through continuous scrolling code. The code isn't filler. It echoes the words and themes of the track, so phrases keep surfacing as the video plays. Heavy motion: glitch, overlays, displacements. After Effects.
View project: Liar LiarSelf-initiated motion study built around carousel tiles rotating through 3D space, with fashion imagery cycling through a layered sequence. A testbed for the newer After Effects 3D and layer tools, the kind of R&D that pays off in client work.
View project: Fashion TilesProduct animation for Pulse Audio's in-ear headphones. Sculpted, textured, lit and animated in Blender, composited in After Effects. A slow rotating cycle that lets the form and materials carry the piece.
View project: Headphone AnimationShort motion piece built from a single anatomical drawing of a heart. Animated in After Effects with a slow pulse and blood flowing through the vessels, holding the etched, illustrative feel of the source image.
View project: HeartPhone booth sculpted and modelled in Blender for an environmental 3D scene challenge. Two lighting passes: one daylit, one at night. The tile flips between them on hover, so the same geometry carries both moods of the same place.
View project: Phone BoothSelf-initiated 3D study of Huel's ready-to-drink bottle. Not a client commission. Modelled and rendered in Blender.
View project: HuelRelease animation for Joshua Baraka's Recess, a seven-track mixtape featuring collaborations with KiDi and Bensoul. Torn paper assembles in 3D space to build the original artwork, animated in After Effects. Rustic and handmade in feel, despite being entirely digital. Used as the Spotify Canvas and the Apple Music animated cover art, and rolled out across the release campaign.
View project: Joshua BarakaPackaging for Wonderkid, my own producer alias. A typographic label system rendered in-bag, giving a personal release the same finish as a client one.
View project: WonderkidSquare-format motion template built for Lilly Era, a label promoting house music. Designed as a recurring system: assets swap in and out cleanly, type and timing adjust without rebuilding the file. Sold as a productised service rather than a one-off.
View project: CarouselSelf-initiated 3D study of the original Game Boy. Not a client commission. Modelled and rendered in Blender.
View project: Game BoyLyric video for Joshua Baraka's Wrong Places. A lighter rotates slowly through the frame with lyrics fading over it, sculpted and animated in Blender with finishing in After Effects. The looping cut ran as the Spotify Canvas and the Apple Music animated cover art, and as the campaign's main social asset. Full video on YouTube.
View project: Wrong PlacesServices
Graphic Design.
Identity, print and campaign artwork for brands, products and events. Posters, packaging, editorial, digital and social, built to stay consistent wherever they land, from a shop shelf to a feed.
- Brand identity
- Campaign artwork
- Posters & print
- Packaging
- Editorial
- Digital & social
- Campaign rollouts
Motion Graphics.
Motion built to carry an idea beyond the static. Title sequences, promos, lyric videos, social content and campaign assets, with animation, typography, compositing and 3D brought together where the job needs it.
- Motion design
- 2D animation
- Animated typography
- Promos & trailers
- Lyric videos
- Social content
- Broadcast graphics
- Compositing
3D Design.
Product visualisation, modelling, materials, lighting and animation for campaigns that need more than supplied photography. From standalone product renders to fully built scenes, packaging visuals and motion.
- 3D modelling
- Product visualisation
- Materials & texturing
- Lighting
- Scene design
- Sculpting
- 3D animation
- Packaging visualisation
- Motion integration
I'm Toby.
A multidisciplinary designer working across graphic design, motion and 3D for brands, artists and agencies.
I started in music, creating artwork and motion for artists and labels, including two years working with Marathon Music Group. My work now spans campaign visuals, social content and 3D for brands and agency teams.
I can work from an existing creative direction, join an agency team, or take a project from the first idea through to finished assets.
Worked with
Selected clients, collaborators and projects across music, culture, brand and product, including work delivered through agency teams.
LyriSync times your own lyrics against your own track, then sends them into After Effects as real text layers. It also exports SRT, WebVTT, LRC and ASS karaoke. Built out of my own lyric video work, because timing lyrics by hand is the slowest part of the job.
Sync lyrics for After EffectsWhat it does
I spent years making lyric videos, and the slow part was always getting each word to land on the right frame. LyriSync does that bit: upload the track, paste in your own lyrics, and it returns word-level and line-level timings.
It exports an After Effects importer that builds real, editable text layers rather than a flattened graphic, plus SRT, WebVTT, LRC, ASS karaoke, TTML, JSON and CSV. Built for lyric video editors, motion designers, and anyone doing subtitle or karaoke work.
Say hello.
If you've got a project, campaign or idea that could use graphic design, motion or 3D, get in touch. I take on direct client work and agency projects, and retained monthly work for teams that need consistent capacity.
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