Hi, I’m Pamela Maio. I’m a French-Canadian 2D animator and illustrator currently studying at École Pivaut Montréal. I love bringing characters to life through expressive drawing, storyboards, and playful world-building. I’m proficient with Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects, and I enjoy collaborating on creative projects that mix illustration with animation. In my 2D animation program, I focus on anatomy, character design, and visual storytelling. I’m excited to contribute to teams with a dynamic, hands-on approach and to grow my craft in a collaborative studio environment.…

Pamela Maio

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Hi, I’m Pamela Maio. I’m a French-Canadian 2D animator and illustrator currently studying at École Pivaut Montréal. I love bringing characters to life through expressive drawing, storyboards, and playful world-building. I’m proficient with Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects, and I enjoy collaborating on creative projects that mix illustration with animation. In my 2D animation program, I focus on anatomy, character design, and visual storytelling. I’m excited to contribute to teams with a dynamic, hands-on approach and to grow my craft in a collaborative studio environment.…

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Hi, I’m Pamela Maio. I’m a French-Canadian 2D animator and illustrator currently studying at École Pivaut Montréal. I love bringing characters to life through expressive drawing, storyboards, and playful world-building. I’m proficient with Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects, and I enjoy collaborating on creative projects that mix illustration with animation.

In my 2D animation program, I focus on anatomy, character design, and visual storytelling. I’m excited to contribute to teams with a dynamic, hands-on approach and to grow my craft in a collaborative studio environment.

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Language

French
Fluent
English
Advanced

Work Experience

Author / Digital Comic Series Creator at The Amazing Zaria
January 1, 2023 - Present
Produced and published a digital comics series fully created independently including script, illustrations, backgrounds, and lettering. Developed a unique visual universe with a consistent graphic style. Also produced a short student film to be presented to producers and animated characters and visual effects in both traditional 2D and cut-out animation styles.
Artist and Animator at The Amazing Zaria
January 1, 2023 - Present
Produced a short student film to be presented to producers. Animated characters and visual effects in both traditional 2D and cut-out animation techniques. Published a digital comics series on Webtoon entirely created independently including script, illustrations, backgrounds, and lettering. Developed a unique visual universe with a consistent graphic style. Sketched and painted live models and still lifes with speed and accuracy, sculpted clay figurines to reproduce human anatomy forms, and strengthened knowledge of anatomy and volume through life drawing and sculpture.
Digital Comic Series Creator at The Amazing Zaria
January 1, 2023 - Present
Published a digital comic series fully created independently, including script, illustrations, backgrounds, and lettering. Developed a unique visual universe with a consistent graphic style. Produced and animated characters and visual effects in both traditional 2D and cut-out animation. Created and managed this project since 2023.
Student Film Producer and Animator at École Pivaut Montréal
January 1, 2023 - August 26, 2025
Produced a short student film to be presented to producers, animating characters and creating visual effects using traditional 2D and cut-out animation techniques.
Student Filmmaker / Animator at École pivat Montréal
January 1, 2022 - Present
Produced a short student film to be presented to producers. Animated characters and visual effects in both traditional 2D and cut-out animation styles. Published a digital comics series on Webtoon, fully independently responsible for script, illustrations, backgrounds, and lettering. Developed a unique visual universe with a consistent graphic style. Sketched and painted live models and still lifes with speed and accuracy. Sculpted clay figurines to reproduce human anatomy forms. Strengthened knowledge of anatomy and volume through life drawing and sculpture.

Education

AEC in 2D Animation at École PIVAUT Montréal
September 5, 2022 - December 14, 2023
Artistic Foundation Program at École PIVAUT Montréal
October 4, 2021 - May 22, 2022
Artistic Foundation Program at École pivat Montréal
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
AEC in 2D Animation at École pivat Montréal
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
2D Animation at École Pivaut Montréal
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2023

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education
    uniE621 Jax
    It’s Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus. I looove him so much. It was made on Procreate.…
    uniE621 The Amazing Zaria original logo design
    It’s the logo of my webcomic The Amazing Zaria on Webtoon. Thats the original version…
    uniE621 Fantasy moonlight painting
    It’s a grayscale painting made with acrylic paint in art school. It’s on of my best work ever done. The shadow of the house on a narrow hill in front of a full shiny moon with ghosts reveals a spooky but beautiful atmosphere.…
    uniE621 Ink art butterfly
    I’ve made this butterfly illustration in art school. It took me 3 weeks to do so. The result are simple incredibly satisfying, many people thought it was a photograph of a butterfly.…
    uniE621 Deadmoon
    It’s a crossover of Deadpool and Sailor Moon. I’ve had this idea in fall 2023 shortly after I saw the movie deadpool with Xmen…
    uniE621 The Amazing Zaria poster # 2
    It’s the second poster of The Amazing Zaria on Webtoon and my favourite one. It represents Zaria (the protagonist) and Corinne (the deuteragonist) in the living room. Corinne is pissed to see the mess while Zaria is sleeping in the couch. This illustration shows perfectly the personality of the two main characters of the webcomic.…
    uniE621 The Amazing Zaria poster #1
    The first poster of The Amazing Zaria on Webtoon. The illustration is about the protagonist of the comic, Zaria Saint-Louis who is sliding the hills with a shopping cart with excitement. It’s a pretty rebel character who just wanna have fun.…
    uniE608 Pikmin K-pop demon hunter crossover
    It’s a crossover of the two things I love the most in my life, pikmin from Nintendo and K-pop demon hunters. I even made a TikTok video about it…
    uniE608 Hello Kitty in 3D
    I’ve made Hello Kitty on Nomad Sculpt, it took me less than a day. I even put different atmospheres so people could have thier own preferences.…
    uniE608 The Amazing Zaria: The Ice Cream Shop
    It’s a 1 minute short film I’ve made in 3 months about my OC based of the comic The Amazing Zaria on Webtoon. It’s hilarious as it can be you’ll see. All the film was made by me, the voices, music, and sound effects are AI generated by the website Elevenlabs because of poor budget but I did my best to make it look as authentic as possible. Do I plan to makes other cartoons in future? Absolutely!! filmdirector advert videoeditor animator…