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Chloe Liao

Sarasota, FL │ 4chloeliao@gmail.com │ +1 (734) 272-7091 │ linkedin.com/in/liaochloe │ liaochloe.com

Contract & Professional Art Experience

Visual Designer & Web Developer
  • Designed and built 2 production websites end-to-end, owning creative direction and front-end development
  • Delivered the site for Violet and Marlowe, the studio's award-winning animated series featured at the Tribeca Film Festival
  • Modeled accessories and rendered 12 in-world character portraits in Blender, including the series' two leads, for an interactive fan experience, matching the studio's rigs, fur system and art direction so the assets dropped into their pipeline unchanged
  • Designed merchandise apparel graphics and social media thumbnails
  • Launched the application flow and legal pages for Filmmakers' University, a $100,000 creator competition, then automated a branded confirmation email for applicants
Storyboard Intern
  • Board script pages for projects in development on production schedules, revising against notes from the director and writing team
  • Design characters and produce character expression and pose sheets
3D Artist Intern
  • Designed mech armor concepts for Siege of Eden, including the primary player character, defining the visual direction of core gameplay assets
  • Delivered concept sheets the 3D modeling team built from directly
Overseas Creator Partner, Reverse: 1999
  • Selected for the studio's official overseas creator program, boarding and animating a short character animatic plus 9 finished character illustrations
Freelance Illustrator & Art Content Creator
  • Completed 100+ commissions spanning custom illustration and character design, handling client communication, revisions and deadlines independently
  • Grew an audience of 45,000+ followers with original art and tutorials

Storyboarding & Animation Projects

Original Storyboards & Animatics
  • Wrote, boarded and cut 4 original sequences totalling 600+ panels, setting shot lengths and cut points at the board stage
  • Finished Rush Order, an original comedy animatic set on a movie backlot, with recorded dialogue, music and sound effects
3D Character Animation & CG
  • Took two original characters, Aster and Coco, end to end alone: design, modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, lighting and render
  • Built a facial rig with blend shapes and expression controls, and composited layered renders in Nuke