Hi, I’m Dru Shaw, a Melbourne-based animator, storyboard artist, designer and creative leader who loves turning ideas into vivid visuals. I specialize in rough and clean-up storyboarding, character and prop design, and creating engaging educational content for online platforms. I enjoy collaborating with directors and production teams to craft clear, expressive visuals that support the storytelling process from concept to final edit. I bring years of hands-on experience across TV, online series, and toy and education content, delivering consistently high-quality work on tight timelines and collaborating across a range of styles and audiences.

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Hi, I’m Dru Shaw, a Melbourne-based animator, storyboard artist, designer and creative leader who loves turning ideas into vivid visuals. I specialize in rough and clean-up storyboarding, character and prop design, and creating engaging educational content for online platforms. I enjoy collaborating with directors and production teams to craft clear, expressive visuals that support the storytelling process from concept to final edit. I bring years of hands-on experience across TV, online series, and toy and education content, delivering consistently high-quality work on tight timelines and collaborating across a range of styles and audiences.

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Hi, I’m Dru Shaw, a Melbourne-based animator, storyboard artist, designer and creative leader who loves turning ideas into vivid visuals. I specialize in rough and clean-up storyboarding, character and prop design, and creating engaging educational content for online platforms. I enjoy collaborating with directors and production teams to craft clear, expressive visuals that support the storytelling process from concept to final edit.

I bring years of hands-on experience across TV, online series, and toy and education content, delivering consistently high-quality work on tight timelines and collaborating across a range of styles and audiences.

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Work Experience

Storyboard Artist at Princess Bento
September 1, 2025 - April 1, 2026
Rough & Clean Up for Disney | Hulu - Universal Basic Guys Season 3, 13 Episodes
Lead Storyboard Revisionsist at Princess Bento
March 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025
Lead Storyboard Revisions – Rough & Clean Up for Netflix - Dad's House Season 1, 10 Episodes
Creative Lead of Entertainment at Moose Toys
February 1, 2024 - March 1, 2025
Creative Lead of Entertainment - Animated Content Production YouTube - Goo Jit Zu & Magic Mixies - 10 Episodes
Animator & Designer at Capellen Damm
June 1, 2023 - April 1, 2024
Animation, Storyboard & Design for Online Educational Content
Storyboard Artist at Princess Bento
November 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022
Rough & Clean Up for Adult Swim - YOLO: Silver Destiny Season 2 - 8 Episodes
Animator & Designer at Capellen Damm
May 1, 2021 - November 1, 2021
Animation, Storyboard & Design for Online Educational Content
Animator at Cartoon Cartuna
February 1, 2021 - March 1, 2021
Animation, Storyboard & Design Online Educational Content
Animator at Cartuna
December 1, 2020 - January 1, 2021
2D Animator - Rough & Clean Up; SnapChat - Winnie; Dinner - 2 Shorts
Animator at Cartuna
May 1, 2020 - November 1, 2020
2D Animator - Rough & Clean Up
Storyboard Artist & Animator at Mash Up Pictures
July 1, 2018 - September 1, 2018
Rough & Clean Up for ABC iView - What Could Go Wrong? - 1 Episode
Animator at Pencilmation
May 1, 2018 - May 31, 2018
Rough & Clean Up for Pencilmation YouTube - 1 Episode 'Man's Best Friend'
Animator at Pencilmation
April 1, 2018 - April 30, 2018
Rough & Clean Up - Pencilmation YouTube - 1 Episode 'A Hard Act to Swallow'
Animator at Bogans Entertainment
July 1, 2018 - September 1, 2018
Rough & Clean Up for Channel 7 Australia - Kitty is not a Cat, 28 Episodes

Education

Bachelor of Animation & Interactive Media at RMIT University, Melbourne
February 1, 2015 - November 1, 2017
Diploma of Graphic Design at TAFE Australia
February 1, 2011 - November 1, 2012

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Software & Internet
    paper Spongebob: Reimagined with Dinosaurs

    A Spongebob Squarepants short I animated for Nickelodeon through the New York based studio CARTUNA for the “Reimagined” anthology

    paper Gentleman Bear

    A short film I animated for the artist and YouTube personality CoolMan CoffeeDan through New York based studio CARTUNA.

    paper When Shit Hits the Fan - A Nouns Short

    A short I animated for the Nouns Collective after winning a online competition involving an original idea with one of their many characters.

    paper Man's Best Fiend - Pencilmation

    2 of 2 episodes I animated for the popular YouTube channel Pencilmation

    paper Pencilmation - A Hard Act to Swallow

    1 of 2 episodes I animated for the popular YouTube channel Pencilmation