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Represented by: Fourth Wall Management
Alison Mann: mann@fourthwallmanagement.com
Sam Goff: goff@fourthwallmanagement.com

Kidlit Agency: Andrea Brown Lit
Kelly Sonnack: kelly@andreabrownlit.com

EXPERIENCE

ART DIRECTOR
Ravensburger | May 2025 - Present
- TCG Art Director for Disney’s Lorcana

CHARACTER DESIGNER
DisneyTVA | April 2025 & Apr 2021 - May 2021
- Character Designer on an undisclosed project
- “Disney Jr’s Ariel”, Initial exploration on main character

CHARACTER DESIGNER
Atomic Cartoons | March 2025
- Costume design on main character and research on undisclosed project

CHARACTER DESIGNER
Kickstart Entertainment | Dec 2024- Jan 2025
- Development on undisclosed project
- Created art direction guide and costume design

LEAD CHARACTER DESIGNER
ShadowMachine | Apr 2024- Oct 2024
- “Long Story Short”, lead a team of artists, main/secondary characters, model sheets, expression sheets, worked with art director, production designer, and animation vendor

CHARACTER DESIGNER
Paramount Feature Animation | Oct 2022 - Jan 2024
- “Smurfs”, Main/secondary characters, model sheets, expression sheets, surfacing packets, worked with art director, production designer, and director

LEAD VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST
Disney Digital Network | Sept 2021 - Feb 2023
- Art direction/Production Design Lead for Internal and External artists
- Ideate, create, long and short form illustration/animation for Disney’s socials

CHARACTER DESIGNER
Dreamworks TV | Sep 2021- Dec 2021 & Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
- Character designs on Main/secondary on 2 unannounced projects, model sheets, expression sheets, surfacing packets, worked with art director, production designer, and director

ILLUSTRATOR
Pixar | May 2021 - June 2021
- Created Pixar’s “Coco” Poster for Mickey’s PhilarMagic Show for Tokyo Disneyland Parks
- Collaborated with Pixar and Imagineering to match existing style of posters

CHARACTER DESIGNER
Nickelodeon Animation | Feb 2022 & Mar 2022 - May 2022 &
- “Casa Grandes Movie”, Development for main and incidental characters
- Costume exploration designs
- Development on an unannounced project

CHARACTER DESIGNER & ILLUSTRATOR
Netflix Animation | Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
- “Pearl”, Designs for shelved project, Main/secondary characters, expression sheets, worked with AD and costume design
- “Maya & The Three”, animated illustration for their series release

VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST
HuevoCartoon Feature Animation | Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
- “Alebrijes”, shelved project, Animated feature, color variants, designs, and ideation for main characters

PRODUCTION ARTIST
Disney Mobile | Nov 2012 - Nov 2013
- “Stack Rabbit”, Visual development, Character Design, storyboarding, animatics, 3D models and textures

CHARACTER DESIGNER
Digital Domain Tradition Studios | May 2011 - Sep 2012
- “Legend of Tembo” Feature, shelved, designed primary and secondary characters, involved in preproduction including prop design, environment, texturing and character design

Education
Ringling College of Art & Design | Class 2011
Computer Animation, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Skills
Experience in ideation, art direction, character design, costume design, surfacing packages, model sheets, texture packets, and development. Experience in Feature, TV, Series pipelines as well as 2D/CG and adult and pre-k content.

Software:
Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, Miro/LucidSpark, Google applications, Mac OSX & Windows, Basic Autodesk Maya, Wacom Products, Fluent in Spanish, Procreate, Basecamp & Asana, Shotgrid/Shotgun/Flow, FileMaker, Wrike