Aimee Scrivener Character Designer & Storyboard Artist
ABOUT:
Hi! My name is Aimee Scrivener; an aspiring storyboard artist and character designer. I have studied animation at university for the past 3 years and am now excited to take my first steps into the industry!
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I've always been passionate about art and other creative mediums, pursing it in whatever way available to me; art GCSE, A level, a club leader in a school, university and now as a freelancer!
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My skills in character design and storyboarding make me an asset to any pre-production team and my understanding of animation gained from university helps my work benefit others further down the pipeline and work productively within a team.
Skills:
Software I can use:
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Adobe Photoshop
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Adobe Animate
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TV Paint
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Adobe After Effects
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Adobe Audition
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Maya (beginner)
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Avid
Specialisms:
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Character Design
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Storyboarding
Additional Skills:
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Motion Graphics
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Concept art
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Editing
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Animatics
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2D lip sync
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3D asset modelling
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2D character animation
Experience:
GROWS UOG Outreach Session: Workshop leader
March 2019
Introduced year 10 students to the concept of stop-motion animation and taught them how to create a short film with modelling clay.
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Character Designer for Welcomme Wonderland
January 2019 – Present
Re-designing character concepts for a children's sing-along brand.
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Aardman Masterclasses (Production Coordinator and Model Making/Paper Prototyping)
Jan – Feb 2019
Helpful workshops that taught me more on how the industry operates within a large-scale studio.
2D Animator for Evenlode Films and Productions
May – November 2018
For Evenlode’s ‘Cheltenham Remembers WW1’ project, I worked as a freelance animator and produced a hybrid 2D/3D hospital scene.
Director on student short film
May – November 2018
Managed a team of four students to produce a film idea I had pitched surrounding the imagery within Elvis Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel'.