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2D hand-drawn animator and multidisciplinary illustrator, character designer with on-going commission freelance experience. Worked across pre-production, production, and post-production, collaborating with a student team on storyboarding, animatics, concept art, and 2D animation polish.…

Stephen Liu

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2D hand-drawn animator and multidisciplinary illustrator, character designer with on-going commission freelance experience. Worked across pre-production, production, and post-production, collaborating with a student team on storyboarding, animatics, concept art, and 2D animation polish.…

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2D hand-drawn animator and multidisciplinary illustrator, character designer with on-going commission freelance experience. Worked across pre-production, production, and post-production, collaborating with a student team on storyboarding, animatics, concept art, and 2D animation polish.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Work Experience

Directed multi-disciplinary student team through production at Dance: Aflocks Story (Project)

January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Directed and led a multidisciplinary student team through pre-production, production, and post-production. Developed and refined storyboards, animatics, concept art, and character design assets; produced layout work, rough animation, in-betweens, cleanup, and animation corrections using Toon Boom Harmony. Oversaw final compositing, editing, and quality control for the completed piece.

2D Hand-drawn Animation Character Design / Storyboarding at Education Projects (Griffith University)

January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026

Completed 2D hand-drawn animation character design and storyboarding work as part of degree training. Produced 2D layout and environment design, puppet animation video editing, compositing, and animation/clean-up tasks to practice the full animation pipeline.

2D Animator at Freelance Artist

January 1, 2020 - Present

Freelance 2D animation commissions supporting multiple projects end-to-end, including animation production workflows such as layout, rough animation, in-betweens, cleanup, and animation correction/polish. Contributed to final animation quality checks during post-production while adapting to project-specific style guides.