Meet Jackson Popiel.

FOUNDER & LEAD INSTRUCTOR

Jackson’s work spans animation, visual effects and previs: the process filmmakers use to plan scenes before they shoot. His background also includes Unreal Engine, Blender and Adobe, and Coding.

Alongside production work, he has taught children in camp, after-school, enrichment and creative-technology settings. Make & Motion brings those two parts of his experience together.

Jackson has been proudly serving the Westchester and Long Island areas as an independent, local afterschool provider for over a year.

A young man with dark wavy hair, smiling and holding a fish he caught. He is outdoors near a river with leafless trees and houses in the background.
Colorful abstract shapes and stars, including a yellow star and a green star, with wavy lines and various smaller circles and dashes in red, purple, blue, orange, and green.
Colorful abstract shapes and stars, including a yellow star and a green star, with wavy lines and various smaller circles and dashes in red, purple, blue, orange, and green.

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