Racquel is a highly regarded expert in the area of 2D animation and graphic design. Collaborating with animation studios ranging from small to medium-sized wearing many hats as a 2D Animator, character designer, 2D artist, and digital influencer. Racquel sets her target on developing high-quality entertaining and marketing content.
In her pursuit of new creative endeavors, there's great enthusiasm to find the current opportunities in the field of 2D animation and illustration. As a progressive professional with story development experience, she believes that she can bring valuable contributions to your team or project.
Identifying innovative approaches and improved solutions to business challenges both motivate and drive Racquel. Observation, inspiration, and determination are her foundation for success. Her philosophy is that introducing fresh perspectives and new techniques allow businesses to evolve and grow. Similar to your project, her goal is to remain on the cutting-edge of advancements.
Currently, in her 2D Animator and Illustrator role, her successes stem from essential skills, including graphic design and character creation. Racquel enhances her motivation abilities and cultivated a reputation as a major contributor through observation and innovation. She is a collaborative team player who seeks opportunities to impart valuable insights. With these qualities, she is able to facilitate positive change and impacting outcomes.
Received distinction for outstanding dissertation in Master's programme.
Having the privilege of working on certain character development concepts and animatics and animation with freelancers and studios alike. The majority of these tend to focus on the entertainment segment although, I've had companies requesting animation and illustration work for marketing purposes.
I have had the privilege of working with clients that have connections to television networks for the primary purpose of profit-making and viewership. The main target audience tends to include children and preteen shows. I've worked alongside animation teams that focus on adult animation as well.
Had the privilege of working alongside a few medical, business, photography, and entertainment companies who had the sole request of marketing their services to their audience and the potential as well. Whiteboard and explainer videos were the go-to recommendation type of animations and a few requested graphic illustrations as well to bring across the message powerfully.
• Worked alongside writers and producers to create unique designs to translate artistic vision into visual medium.
• Collaborated with motion capture department to collect and apply data for specific characters.
• Used Photoshop and Illustrator to create over 100 realistic characters with full range of emotions and movement.
• Built upon existing character animation to develop several new stories.
• Designed procedures for storyboard composition, action creation and storytelling protocols to complete many projects over lengthy periods of timeframe due to customers requesting working further with me.
• Worked alongside writers and producers to create unique designs to translate artistic vision into visual medium.
• Collaborated with motion capture department to collect and apply data for specific characters.
• Used Photoshop and Illustrator to create over 100 realistic characters with full range of emotions and movement.
• Built upon existing character animation to develop several new stories.
• Designed procedures for storyboard composition, action creation and storytelling protocols to complete many projects over lengthy periods of timeframe due to customers requesting working further with me.
• Worked alongside writers and producers to create unique designs to translate artistic vision into visual medium.
• Collaborated with motion capture department to collect and apply data for specific characters.
• Provided first-rate hand-drawn animation for television and cinematic use on 2D related software, such as Toon Boom and Animate cc.
• Used Photoshop and Illustrator to create over 100 realistic characters with full range of emotions and movement.
• Built upon existing character animation to develop several new stories.
• Designed procedures for storyboard composition, action creation and storytelling protocols to complete many projects over lengthy periods of timeframe due to customers requesting working further with me.
• Combined technical and artistic abilities to accomplish challenging animation objectives.
• Set and maintained high standards of quality for numerous projects.
• Researched how desired animations, movements and events would occur in real-world situations.
• Developed storyboards outlining animation plans.
• Collaborated with other animators to create coherent images within scenes.
• Liaised with other departments to discuss ideas and create unified goals
• Designed mock-ups and simulations for review, finding and fixing animation problems.