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Hi, I’m Serena Yoakum, an animator and illustrator with a passion for hand-drawn animation, visual development, and storytelling. I contribute to the full pipeline, from pre to post-production, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver polished pieces. I’ve built my career across universities, internships, studios, and freelance projects. I enjoy mentoring peers, managing production, and exploring new styles. I’m excited to bring my artistic eye, technical skills, and collaborative mindset to new projects.…Hi, I’m Serena Yoakum, an animator and illustrator with a passion for hand-drawn animation, visual development, and storytelling. I contribute to the full pipeline, from pre to post-production, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver polished pieces. I’ve built my career across universities, internships, studios, and freelance projects. I enjoy mentoring peers, managing production, and exploring new styles. I’m excited to bring my artistic eye, technical skills, and collaborative mindset to new projects.

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Hi, I’m Serena Yoakum, an animator and illustrator with a passion for hand-drawn animation, visual development, and storytelling. I contribute to the full pipeline, from pre to post-production, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver polished pieces. I’ve built my career across universities, internships, studios, and freelance projects. I enjoy mentoring peers, managing production, and exploring new styles. I’m excited to bring my artistic eye, technical skills, and collaborative mindset to new projects.…Hi, I’m Serena Yoakum, an animator and illustrator with a passion for hand-drawn animation, visual development, and storytelling. I contribute to the full pipeline, from pre to post-production, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver polished pieces. I’ve built my career across universities, internships, studios, and freelance projects. I enjoy mentoring peers, managing production, and exploring new styles. I’m excited to bring my artistic eye, technical skills, and collaborative mindset to new projects.

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Hi, I’m Serena Yoakum, an animator and illustrator with a passion for hand-drawn animation, visual development, and storytelling. I contribute to the full pipeline, from pre to post-production, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver polished pieces.

I’ve built my career across universities, internships, studios, and freelance projects. I enjoy mentoring peers, managing production, and exploring new styles. I’m excited to bring my artistic eye, technical skills, and collaborative mindset to new projects.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

Beginner

Toon Boom Harmony

Beginner

Language

English

Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Animator at AfroDuck Studios

April 1, 2020 - Present

Creating hand-drawn sprite animations, including the rough, clean-up, coloring, and shading stages. Supporting additional artistic tasks in visual development, storyboards, and making illustrations.

Production Coordinator at WrightOne Media Group

February 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023

Managed the production of a short animated film, broke down scripts, took and distributed meeting notes, planned the production timeline, contributed to the story, provided feedback on deliverables, researched visual inspiration and references, created and gave presentations, and edited documents and files.

Senior Graphic Designer at Ohio State University MMC Scholars

August 1, 2018 - December 1, 2021

Promoted from a Junior Graphic Designer in 2020 and a Graphic Design Intern in 2019. Created graphics, made buttons and stickers, taught project groups how to use advanced computer programs and apps, and completed media projects for other OSU organizations.

Animation Intern at Essence Cartoon

May 23, 2021 - August 26, 2021

Practiced the animation studio pipeline — scripting, storyboarding, character and background design, hand-drawn rough and clean-up animations, color, and compositing. Interns collaboratively worked as a team to create an animation and maintained communication with supervisors for professional feedback.

Animation Intern at Essence Cartoon

May 15, 2020 - August 31, 2020

Learned and participated within the animation studio pipeline, which encompassed scripting, choosing voice actors, storyboarding, character and background design, 2D puppet animation, coloring, and compositing. Interns collaboratively worked as a team to create an animation and maintained communication with supervisors for professional feedback.

Freelance Explainer Video Creator at St. Bernard Systems

April 30, 2021 - January 9, 2022

Worked with a client to produce an animated commercial over 2 minutes long. Includes voice-over, storyboard, animatic, design, animation, and compositing.