Claude is a comic artist, 2D animator, and visual artist based in Cary NC. He has done storyboard and concept work for short films, as well as explored character design and animation within personal projects. Claude works mainly digitally, but has an affinity and love for traditional materials. He works well with those that have a strong vision for their project, and a willingness to collaborate. No AI. He currently works as a home school art teacher and local barista.…

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Claude is a comic artist, 2D animator, and visual artist based in Cary NC. He has done storyboard and concept work for short films, as well as explored character design and animation within personal projects. Claude works mainly digitally, but has an affinity and love for traditional materials. He works well with those that have a strong vision for their project, and a willingness to collaborate. No AI. He currently works as a home school art teacher and local barista.…

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Claude is a comic artist, 2D animator, and visual artist based in Cary NC. He has done storyboard and concept work for short films, as well as explored character design and animation within personal projects. Claude works mainly digitally, but has an affinity and love for traditional materials. He works well with those that have a strong vision for their project, and a willingness to collaborate. No AI.

He currently works as a home school art teacher and local barista.

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Language

English
Fluent
French
Beginner

Work Experience

Art Teacher at The Home School Experience
January 4, 2026 - Present
Working as an Art Teacher with students ages 11+, creating curriculum for teaching basic art skills as well as comics, animation, and creature design.
Art Instructor at Kidzart
August 8, 2024 - December 9, 2025

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts at Maryland Institute College of Art
August 24, 2018 - May 12, 2022
Graduated with a BFA in 2D animation and minor in sequential arts

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Industry Experience

Retail, Education, Professional Services
    uniE621 Wedding Photo Recreation
    This illustration was a recreation of the client's wedding photo in a more animated/anime-like style. They wanted a painterly background with clean, cel-shaded figures and stylized versions of their real-life outfits.…
    uniE608 Until Sunset
    A short film of 2 minutes written, designed, animated, mixed, and scored by myself over the course of 9 months from 2021 to 2022. The short follows a boy scout and elven prince as they meet and spend a short day together before having to part. It is set up as moving comic 'pages', with no dialogue and hand drawn backgrounds. video animator…
    paper The Traveler

    For this project, I created over 150 individual drawings to come together as a storyboard based on a provided script from the writer and producer of the short film being created. The setting was that of the early 1800s countryside, centered around a widow who is grieving the very recent loss of her husband, and feeling threatened by her isolation.

    The short film’s twist goes entirely science fiction with a time traveler “haunting” the widow. These drawings are all in grayscale with hints of color on one or two drawings. These drawings were created in 2022, with the film itself now currently in circulation of film festivals in the US and UK.