John Likens

John Likens is a UI Designer who worked at Cloud Imperium Games.

Works at CIG
He was brought on board in the very early stages of creating the UI graphics for the spacecrafts in the game. His role was to come up with a high level concept of how the design could function and to aesthetically get the graphics team pointed in the right direction from a design standpoint.

Other Works
He started his career creating motion graphics for commercial, film, and gaming clients. His passion for film has led him to design cinematic title sequences for Deadpool 2, Marvel’s Eternals, HBO’s “The Night Of,” HBOMax’s “Warrior,” and the award-winning titles for Netflix’s “Godless,” among others.

John’s work also includes the holographic UI designs that appear in “Iron Man 3,” “RoboCop,” and “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” He provided design direction for the Netflix documentary “Mission Blue,” and art directed Red Bull’s first feature documentary “Blood Road.” Before Method, John worked as a freelancer in many top NY studios including The Mill and Framestore.

Early Life
He studied Graphic Design at the College of Design at Iowa State University and graduated in 2008. In his senior year he realized he wanted to pursue the film and television industry, so he taught myself how to animate, applying his graphic design education to motion based projects. He eventually cut a reel and used it to get his foot in the door at various design studios in New York City as a freelancer. After a 5 year run as an independent designer, he decided to go staff at Method Studios in late 2014.