Selected founder history2011
Lessons From a Tree — WeForest / TED Talks
A purpose-led animated story premiered in a TED Talk with Bill Liao.
- Co-Director
- Motion Designer
- Animator
00 · The animated story
Lessons From a Tree
Lessons From a Tree
Visual transcript
Timed visual description
- A mark appears on a weathered paper field as a hand-drawn line begins to travel across the frame.
- The line becomes land, roots, clouds, and growing forms in a restrained sepia-and-rust palette.
- The living system expands into a shared landscape, connecting planting, stewardship, and renewal.
01 · The brief
A living system drawn by hand.
The film translates a reforestation message into an authored animation with narration by Jeremy Irons.
02 · The work
Story turns stewardship into feeling.
Jared Rowe served as Co-Director, Motion Designer, and Animator; Derek Alan Rowe created the storyboard; Doctrine Creative produced the work.
- Narrative animation
- Motion design
- Purpose-led storytelling
03 · The evidence
The landscape grows.
Verified project media is presented in the opening frame.
04 · The record
The people behind the film.
Selected work from Jared Rowe's career, created independently and through employers, studios, agencies, and partner teams. Exact roles, engagement context, and collaborators are credited per project.
Much of this work predates Starseed Creative, LLC. It is presented as founder history, not as a Starseed client roster.
- Jared Rowe
- Co-Director, Motion Designer, and Animator
- Storyboard
- Derek Alan Rowe
- Narration
- Jeremy Irons
- Production
- Doctrine Creative