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Sabrina Nelson

Artist | Animator | Audio Design | Voice Actress | Storyteller

Selected WORK EXPERIENCE
Animation Projects​
Thesis- The Anoir Chronicles 2023
  • Creative Director and Production Artist
  • A trailer for webcomic The Anoir Chronicles, featuring an original story, custom artwork, original music composition and voice work, and post production work

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Pro Studio at KCAD — The Culling of E.D.E.N. Fall 2023
  • Product Owner, Audio Designer, Writer, Motion Graphic Artist, Technical Artist

  • Presented work to shareholders for. feedback, designed music for game levels and trailer, tracked vocals for narration and character work, created UI and motion graphic elements, compiled final trailer

  • Created an animated trailer and a 10-15 minute demo for a pitch of the game The Culling of E.D.E.N.

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Pro Studio at KCAD — Alternative Unrealities Spring 2023
  • Team Lead, Sound Designer, Character Animator and Narrator

  • Coordinated meetings, conducted research and developed a storyline with puppeted animations and sound design, turned in deliverables ahead of schedule

  • Creating a series of posters featuring characters in popular media and using AR technology in a smartphone app to bring them to life to uncover hidden biases 

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24 HOUR Animation Competition — Spark October 2023 
  • A collaborative creation by team War Pigeons with story, characters and a 30 second animation created within 24 hours. 

  • Storyboard Artist, Audio Designer, Frame-to-Frame Animator and Designer 

  • Second time competing 

 

2D Character Animation at KCAD — Uh Oh, Seth! Fall 2022
  • 30 second animated short with original story and character design 

  • Project Manager and Art Director, Executed with puppeting and frame-to-frame animation techniques, fully sound designed and voice acted

Design Projects
Commission — Under Pressure: A Blood Pressure Board Game Summer 2023
  • Commissioned along with Alexis Schineman to create assets for a board game concept created by Dr. Shelby Kelsh PharmD 

  • Performed research, created artwork and text layout for playing cards, game board, instructions and box, delivered on time, received and implemented feedback, created an attractive and useful design, provided high quality files to be sent to a manufacturer  

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Commission Pet Portrait Fundraiser Summer 2021 
  • Selected Artist to create pet portraits for donors to Constellation Cat Cafe.

  • Created physical art pieces for three different clients based off photographs, completed and turned in promptly, and were displayed at cafe before being gifted to respective donors​

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Theatre, Various Aspects 2009-2020 
  • Character actress in dozens of stage productions, experience with voice acting for character and audio book type works

  • Classically voice trained soprano for eight years 

  • Various genres of dance training for six years, worked and choreographed stage combat for 2 years 

  • Built and painted sets, worked stage run crew, built costumes, costume mastered two productions, light designed and ran my own programmed light cues

 

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View these works and more in my portfolio!

Education

Kendall College of Art and Design  |  Graduated Summa Cum Laude December 2023  |  Bachelor's in Digital Art and Design

 

Northern Michigan University   |   Graduated Summa Cum Laude

December 2019 | Bachelor's in Theatre and Entertainment Performance Arts​

Skills

Adobe Suite | Photoshop | Audition | Animate | After Effects | Premiere

Illustrator | Adobe XD | GarageBand | Clip Studio | Microsoft Suite | Google Suite

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