ABOUT
Hi! My name is Fernanda Maciel, and I’m a 2D animator (frame-by-frame), Storyboard Artist, character designer, and visual development artist based in Brazil. I graduated with a degree in Animation Cinema from UFPel.
I’m passionate about storytelling, strong visual design, and bringing characters to life through expressive animation.
SOFTWARES
RESUME
FERNANDA MACIEL
2D animator and Storyboard Artist
São Paulo, Brazil | nandayoshi.art@gmail.com|
|EDUCATION
2024
Gobelins Summer school in Character Animation
2024
SkillTree - Anatomy for Artists Online Course with Emmanuel Telles
2024
Character Design with Paulo Ignez.
2022 - 2023
ICS - Character Animation with Paulo Ignez.
2021 - 2022
Bootcamp Animation with Ethan Becker
2020 - 2021
SkillTree - Digital Art Fundamentals Online Course with Pedro Dutra.
2018 - 2024
Bachelor in Cinema de Animação Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Rio Grande do Sul Capstone project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgbGtYQsP4
2026
Brainstorm - GPSB – Grease Pencil Storyboard
|PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021
Clean up artist - Alopra Studio
— Worked to clean up frames on ToonBoom Harmony.
2020 - 2022
Animation Character Commissions
— Worked doing characters animated in a loop.
2023
2D VFX animation - PIXELMON
— Worked doing VFX animation.
2025
Rough animator - Iluminuras Studio
— Worked doing rough animation on ToonBoom Harmony.
|LANGUAGES
Portuguese
— Native
English
— intermediate
Japanese
— Basic
|SOFTWARES
- TOON BOOM HARMONY
- TV PAINT
- CLIP STUDIO PAINT
- ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
- STORYBOARD PRO
|SKILLS
2D Animator
Storyboard Artist
Character designer
Concept Artist
