Client: Mailchimp
Role: Art Director, Animator
In 2018, Mailchimp rebranded with a new look to expanded beyond email and become a leading marketing platform for small businesses. This included a new logo, color palette, illustrations, photography and animation. I helped guide the look and feel for our new animation style which included creating original animations (including the new logo) as well as providing art direction to freelancers and studios that helped make this launch possible.
Client: Topo Chico
Role: Art Director, Illustrator, Animator
Sound design: Mitchell Hardage
Topo Chico launched a new series called Topo Chico Premiere, which helps promote talented, on-the-rise musicians. In addition to that, they wanted to create some 90’s MTV styled animate bumpers to tee up each video. I provided the direction, illustration and animation for this video.
Client: Mailchimp
Role: Animator
Mailchimp's 2020 Annual Report theme was “Against all Odds,” which was so appropriate for the year that was 2020. It’s a celebration of resilience and creativity — all the ways our peeps, customers, and communities made it through this year.
You can view the Annual Report here
Creative Director: Christian Widlic
Art Director: Ross Zietz
Designers/Illustrators: James Abercrombie, Chris Sandlin, Meg Lindsey, Luke Webster
Animator: Linda McNeil
Copywriter: Austin L. Ray
Engineer: Jordan Andree
Press:
It’s Nice That
The One Club
D&AD Awards 2021 Pencil Winner
Client: Vans
Agency: Better Half
Role: Illustrator, Animator
Worked with the Team at Better Half to create visuals for the Vans series, Sidestripe Sessions. This episode features the SoCal band, The Aces. I created elements to interact with them as they play live from the shoebox.
Client: Sesame Street
Agency: Ghost Robot
Role: Illustrator, Animator
Worked on the illustrations and motion graphics for the short film “I is for Instrument” that was part of Season 52. Episode I of Sesame Street. This film was released on HBO and PBS
Written and Directed by Sally Tran
Client: Airbnb
Agency: Better Half
Role: Illustrator, Animator
Created a series of instagram stories and giphy stickers for the launch of Airbnb’s Animal Experiences with the team at Better Half. There was over 8 TB of footage to go through to create cut down versions of the main experiences that were promoted for the launch. Each giphy sticker highlighted these core animals and could be shared across social platforms. Never pass on an opportunity to animate a corgi on a surfboard.
Client: Mailchimp
Illustration + Art Direction: Chris Sandlin
Development: RESN
https://www.readthissummer.com/
Read this Summer is a summer reading list that started as a company wide book club, and expanded to a larger site that invites the whole world to read along with us. Each year, we partner with the Decatur Book Festival and one author to curate a list of books. This year, our list was curated by author, New York Times writer, and podcaster Jenna Wortham.
The animations created for this project have a fun and playful tone to them to go along with the illustration style. We wanted the site to be lively and spark joy and excitement for the content.
Client: Mailchimp
Role: Art Director
At Mailchimp, I directed these short animations as a way to grow our animation and illustration style. We worked with three animators that were already familiar with our style and gave them a business prompt to focus a narrative on. These videos have been used at speaker events and conferences to help customers and viewers identity Mailchimp.
Art Director: Linda McNeil
Animator and Illustrator: Daniela Sherer, Giulia Frixione and Alex Griggs
Producer: Paul Byk, Cait Lovelace
Client: Ok Motion Club
Role: Art Director, Illustrator, Animator
OK Motion Club started as a female animation collective based in Atlanta, GA and is run by Amanda Schrembeck and Linda McNeil. We wanted a space to show our work and grow as animators, but also hopefully empower other women to pick up the medium.
In 2021, we turned this fun side project into a studio. Check out all our work here
Client: Mailchimp
Role: Animator
To help promote Mailchimp’s new postcards feature, a few designers got together and made a game in the style of paperboy. This was a passion project that started small and grew into something great. We even got a cabinet in the office!
I handled the animation for the game and worked some talented coworkers
Chase Curry: Art direction/game design
James Abercrombie: Art direction/visual design
Luke Webster: Music/visual design
Joe Montefusco: Visual design
Caleb Andrews: Sound effects
Elizabeth Teasley: Producer/Project Manager
Client: TED
Creative Producer: Emily Pidgeon
Role: Art Director, Illustrator, Animator
Photo Credits: Bret Hartman and Emily Pidgeon
I was contacted to create a background animation for the main stage at the TED 2017 Conference in Vancouver. The session I worked on was called "Bugs & Bodies." It's about all things bugs, microbes, death rays that kill bacteria (!) and genetics.
I created this long background to set the stage for talks by Wang Jun, Anne Madden, Levon Biss, Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar, Elizabeth Blackburn and more.
Client: Mailchimp
Role: Art Director, Illustrator, Animator
Mailchimp’s first appearance at the IRCE conference in Chicago was in 2016. This included a booth with 6 screens to play videos on the outside and have live demos on the inside. We created these ambient videos to play that highlighted features in a fun way.
Illustrations by Michela Picchi, Jing Wei and Linda McNeil
Pananimation is a private group for women, trans or non-binary animators started by Bee Grandinettio , Hedvig Ahlberg and Linn Fritz . It's inspiring, supportive and helpful. So proud to be in this community of talented ladies.
I made this little gif for the start of the directory this here. Check out the full list of animators here:
http://www.punanimation.com/
I became interested in projection art as a way to experiment with animation and video as well as break away from the computer for a bit. Atlanta has a thriving scene of talented artist, but rarely have spaces to meet up outside of working environments.
The first event I worked on was Screen, which was a projection show featuring non-commercial work from local artists. Also teamed up with the folks the run Off The Air to put together Earth . Artists were encouraged to submit any work representative of, earth. From celebrations of nature, to climate change, to commentaries on its inhabitants and life on the planet itself, all interpretations are welcome.
