The Team
Linnea Haga is one of the co-directors for Ceramic Rabbit! Besides directing, she has worked on many other aspects of production including story, animation, rigging, texturing and compositing, but she loves story the most. When she’s not doodling, she’s binging youtube video essays, riding horses and playing pokemon on her switch. After graduation, she hopes to join a studio in the story department and work as a board artist!
Linnea Haga - Co Director & Rendering Co Lead
Contact - linneahaga2018@gmail.com
Isobel Cassidy - Co Director & Story Creator
Isobel is one of the co-directors for Ceramic Rabbit! After creating the initial pitch for the story, she has worked with her team on boarding, visual development, texturing, rigging, and animation for the film. When she's not busy crafting stories, catch her sleeping in on weekends and eating two spaghetti meals in one day. After graduation, she'd love to work as a story artist for animated films.
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As our Art Director, Sophia has been involved in almost every team and every aspect of production! Her keen artistic eye and painterly approach played an imperative role in creating the stylized look of the film, keeping the composition and design consistent throughout. In addition to Art Director, she's taken a role as the Digital Matte Painting lead and contributes to the Texture, Lighting, Animation, Character Modeling, Effects, Social Media, and Marketing team. After she graduates, she is most interested in creating concept art for both film and games. When she's not working on the film you can find her out in nature kayaking or hiking!
Sophia Lovato - Art Director
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Contact - sophiacorteslovato@gmail.com
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Sarah Jimmerson - Co Production Manager &
Co Rendering Lead
Sarah is one of the Co-Production Managers and Co-Rendering Leads on Ceramic Rabbit! As a Puerto Rican woman, this film is near and dear to her heart. Throughout the production, she has contributed to story, layout, animation, modeling, rigging, texturing, lighting, social media, and marketing. When she graduates, she aspires to work in production management for films and games. When she's not obsessing over our favorite bunny couple, she loves going to concerts, playing games, and doodling.
Contact - sarahnjimmerson@gmail.com
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Maylin Vasquez - Co Production Manager
As one of the Co-Production Managers for our film, Maylin works hard at various administrative duties including updating statuses and schedules and file organization. She’s also contributed to story, animation, modeling, texturing, compositing, and rigging. Originally from the theater world, Maylin enjoys musicals with all of her heart and soul. Once she's graduated, Maylin aims to work in television and film as a Production Assistant.
Contact - MayDayVasquez@gmail.com
Pablo Olortegui - Editor
Pablo is the talented editor of Ceramic Rabbit, helping put the film together piece by piece. Throughout the course of production, he has worked on storyboarding, visual development, modeling, texturing, story, effects, animation, and editing. However, he loves visual development, story-boarding, and animating the most! In his downtime, he likes to study/draw digital art, play games, and read graphic novels. After graduation, his hopes are to create concept art, storyboards, and animations for both his own and others’ games and films.
Contact - Polortegui98@gmail.com
Taylor Raiford - Asset Manager & Co Lighting Lead
Taylor is the modeling and lighting lead for our team. He has been working in 3d for more than 10 years and is able to bring his experience to the table to assist the team. He enjoys working on creating the models and texturing and lighting them; there is so much satisfaction in taking a concept image and bringing it to life in 3d! The story can be pushed so much further through the fine details of the work.
Contact - Tcraiford@gmail.com
Paula Torres - Environment Lead & Co Texture Lead
Paula is our environment and co-texture lead! She’s had a hand in modeling, texturing, animation and arranging our environment, but her passion lies in 3D modeling & texturing. During her free time she enjoys working on her art, playing animal crossing & binge watching series on Netflix. When she graduates she hopes to go into the video game industry and one day have her own studio!
Contact - paula.k.torres@gmail.com
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Isabela Bordner - Co Texture Lead
Isabela is one of our Texture Co-Leads who has also been involved with story development, environment modeling, lighting, and compositing. After graduation she hopes to pursue look development in either games or film. In her free time, Isabela enjoys singing show tunes, playing the trumpet, and visiting theme parks.
Julia Navarro - Animation Lead
Julia is our animation lead for Ceramic Rabbit! While being lead animator for our short, Julia has also helped worked on other aspects of production such as story , modeling, texturing, social media, marketing and visual development. Although she’s been working hard for two lovely ceramic rabbits, Julia spends her weekends helping out one Extra Terrestrial alien save his planet time and time again. After graduation, Julia hopes to work for a television studio and have the opportunity to create characters that anyone can love along with stories that have meaning and inspire others!
Munaya Bagendwan - Character Rigging Lead
Munaya brought our Hazel and Ben models to life and worked as one of our Character Rigging Leads on Hazel. She's also worked alongside us in storyboarding, layout, props, textures, animation, and blendshapes. She has assisted in giving ideas for story and visual development as well as helping with rigging difficulties. Her passion is storytelling and character designing as well as character modeling and rigging. In her free time she enjoys playing Genshin, watching anime, working as a freelance illustrator and creating her Webtoons. When she graduates, she wants to continue her webtoon along with creating more stories and characters!
Contact - munayabagendwan@gmail.com
Victoria Garcia - Effects Lead
Victoria is a lover of both Animation and all things cute and colorful, which is why her addition to the short film Ceramic Rabbit is a match made in heaven. Victoria is on the animation, texturing, effects, lighting, layout, and modeling teams, and has a love and appreciation for those aspects in the 3D Animation pipeline. After graduation, she plans on joining the Disney College Program to work on her portfolio with a focus in environmental and prop modeling, and texturing, along with a passion and a drive to get positions doing those things in the future.
Contact - gvictoria109@gmail.com
Kelsey Palmer - Co Lighting Lead
Kelsey is one of Ceramic Rabbit’s eager worker ants who is willing to dip her toes into almost every aspect of the film! She is one of our lighting leads, and has also worked on concept art and designs, modeling, rigging, animation, texturing, and compositing! After graduation she would love to be involved in concept art and animation for both games and film! When she’s not working she’s either drawing, daydreaming, or playing video games!
Contact - k2bpalmer@gmail.com
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