Jesús Rascón

Jesús Rascón

Design engineer and technical content creator

Typography obsessed, attention to detail and tasteful animation

I'm currently working at Prisms LogoPrisms as a Squares & Rectangles Director, producing mathematical content for our VR game.

Founder and creator of the Design Bits LogoDesign Bits channel, where we talk about computational design. All things art, but make it digital.

I've also worked as a freelance technical content creator with channels like Veritasium and Reducible, crafting animations earning +60 million impressions.

Fun Side Projects

Non exhaustive list of silly things I've built. No promises.
Pangea

The country guessing game
Tramos IRPF

Tax calculator for freelancers in Spain
Cycles logo
Cycles

Tiny Little Habit Tracker
Processing Fellowship Proposal

A presentation of Mathemagical.js, with Greg Stanton
Spanish General Elections 2023 Map

Visualization of the results, per district
Cycles logo
El Metro

Tram tracking extremely simple
Font Guesser

An unfinished font guessing game
FOCAL-ES

A database with exhaustive information on focal particles
Chord Chart Maker

An unfinished jazz-style chord chart for quick idea sharing
Custom Blending Modes

Quick prototype about a hypothetical blend mode editor
CC Fest Slides

Slides I gave for my presentation on the '22 CC Fest!

Experience & Background

A little sum up of the path I've followed so far

Prisms of Reality

Technical Content Creator
In June, 2023, I joined the incredible Prisms team as a technical content creator, helping create explainer video assets in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemsitry and sciences.

These videos help kids get around the game and understand complex concepts in an accessible, fun way.

Design Bits

Founder
Around March, 2023 I created the Design Bits channel, to talk about computational design. Much of the influence I've gathered from past experiences can be easily picked up in this project.

We discuss the inner workings of the tools designers use daily in a hopefully accessible and attractive manner.

Graphic Design, Video Production, Music Production and Programming are disciplines that I want to keep as close to my heart as possible. This channel is a successful attempt at doing so. Every asset, animation, song or sound effect is created from scratch, in my room. Being able to control the interplay between all the elements makes me incredibly happy.

'22 Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code Contributor
In June, 2022 I proposed the Processing Foundation –through the GSOC program– a very important change to the p5.js library that had been asked for ages: native GIF export.

The p5.js community is largely stablished in Twitter, where GIF sharing was the main way for artists to show their works in progress, as well as the finished pieces.

But GIF exporting was very cumbersome, usually requiring the user to download every single frame as a png for later composition, or using tools that either did not work properly or needed an unreasonable amount of setup.

I am very proud to say that we managed to create this feature and make it as easy as it's ever been to download a GIF from your sketch.

Reducible

Art Direction & Animation Engineering
My journey as a freelancer was blessed when I joined the Reducible youtube channel as an Art Director and Animator. Nipun, the creator and founder of the channel, gave me the most welcoming time and we formed a team to improve the channel from the ground up.

This project really holds a special place in my heart, since I was so early in my career but still, he trusted me and allowed me to explore and exploit all the possibilities. No judgement, no bullshit, just vibes and code.

Helped develop a clearer brand identity to the channel, helping it stand out among a rapidly growing community of educational math channels.

Animation engineering comes from the fact that all animations were made through code.

Freelancer

I guess every role?
In September, 2021 I started my career as a freelancer. I had just come out of my masters and had absolutely no idea nor properly developed skill. The only thing I had clear was to avoid joining some generic big corporation to do lame stuff as hard as I possibly could.

During this time, I worked with the Veritasium team as an animation engineer, making mathematical animations in Manim. This would shape the rest of my career as I would choose this path onwards and specialize in this branch of content creation.

I also started my career as a design engineer, something I didn't know at the time. I started tinkering with Next.js and Svelte and made some websites for fun and for my local university.

MSc Data Science

Masters in Data Science @ University of Granada
Got my masters in Data Science through the year of 2020. Learned that you won't need much more than a simple linear regression in 90% of the cases you have to estimate some data. I also got a lot into data visualization and design.

BSc Computer Science

Bachelors in Computer Science @ University of Jaén
From 2016 through 2020 I completed my degree in Computer Science. I didn't have a great time during the first years, I was really bad at algorithms, math and hardcore programming in general. It wouldn't be until 3rd year that I started to take off and enjoy the process.

Today I can very confidently say that programming, algorithms and math make me very happy. Not an obvious choice, but probably the right one.

Music studies

I basically started playing guitar
At some point during the summer of 2013 I managed to convice mom to buy me a guitar. Sometime later I started attending guitar lessons from one of the most incredible teachers I will ever know, Yeye.

Like many other things, this would completely fill up my mind and change my entire life, but I didn't know that yet.
2023