Sarah Carmichael • 2D Animator

Software

•2D Animation •  Clean Up Animation • Motion Graphics  •Rigging • Illustration • Creature Animation • Previsualization • Quick Learner • Critique Driven • Team Player • Eye for Detail • Gamer • Horror lover •Theme Park Aficionado • Animal lover • 

Spanish Speaker

Skills

Spindlehorse Toons                    

     Cleanup Artist - Helluva B0ss

January 2021 - Present

• Responsible for cleaning up rough animation and ensuring it’s on model

• Reanimated assets that changed during production

• Animated fine details such as clothing patterns and freckles during the cleanup process

• Rendered, organized, and packaged files for compositing

•  Collaborated with a remote team of artists across several time zones and countries

Freelance Artist                   

    Generalist

October 2019 - Present

• Used After Effects to animate client logos for use in online videos

• Illustrated custom signage used inside a local business

•  Designed new logo design for local company, to be used on store signage, website, and other collateral

• Created various works featuring clients’ personal characters in many different styles

Confidential Cartoons                    

    Cleanup Artist -Freelance

• Cleanup Artist on an unannounced music video

• Used Adobe Animate to produce clean line art in preparation for color and compositing

• Worked remotely with a team of artists from across the country

Mighty Animation Studio                  

     2D Cutout Animator - Freelance

July 2021 - September 2021

• Character animator on an episode of "The Boys: Diabolical", an anthology series on Amazon Prime

• Used Toon Boom Harmony to animate various  character rigs

•  Collaborated with a remote team of artists across several time zones and countries 

Apartment D                    

     Character Rigger and Animator - Freelance

July 2021 - August 2021

• Used After Effects to rig and animate various biped and quadruped characters

•  Provided rig edits and testing throughout the project

•  Animated humans, animals, and props to music

Optym                    

     Motion Graphics Artist

June 2017 - July 2021

• Created appealing Motion Graphics, UI Animation, Character Animation, Logo Animation, and Illustration to enhance Optym's diverse software catalog

• Lead the previsualization of countless videos, creating storyboards, animatics, and leading brainstorming sessions to help bring our scripts and engineer's visions to life

• Streamlined the marketing department’s character animation potential by creating detailed, easy to use rigs within After Effects

• Assisted in companywide rebranding, focusing mainly on animated assets and illustrations

• Marketing team was the recipient of several regional Gold and Silver Addy Awards

UF Digital Worlds Institute                    

     2D Animator

January 2016-May 2017

•  Used Toon Boom Harmony to animate character puppets for an interactive educational video

•  Animated Spanish and English graphics and subtitles for Early Learning Florida educational courses

•  Performed compositing, green screen keying, sound, and video editing

• Tasked with keeping project files strictly organized so they could be worked on by multiple team members

• Proofread Spanish scripts along with other Spanish speaking team mates to ensure translations were correct

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design

• Bachelor of Fine Arts Animation, with a focus in 2D Animation

• Cum Laude

• Received Academic and Artistic Honors Scholarship throughout enrollment.

September 2011 - May 2015