Professional Work © SPIRIT Animation
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Story Portfolio 2024
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'Overtime' Visual Development
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'A Lenda de Monsterra' Short Film & Visual Development
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'Gouda' Short film & Visual Development
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'The Rotfather' Props
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Other Illustrations
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GSK - VSR
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Funk do Defenza
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Mili Baby Fralda Pants
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Valorant - Neon Cinematic
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GSK: RSV Awareness Campaign | Concept Art and Storyboard

Campaign by Publicis for GSK, featuring animation by SPIRIT Animation. We sought to raise awareness of the risks of RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) in a playful manner.

Little girl's room and dolls concept
Little girl's room - Props
Grandmother's room - Props
Grandmother's room Concept
Character Concepts
Overlayed sketches and Band-aid concepts

Color Script

Storyboards and Animatic

Final movie

Making Of

Defenza: "Funk do Defenza" | Animatic

Campaign by GHFly for Defenza, featuring animation by SPIRIT Animation. I was responsibly for boarding the campaign - though a few changes occured during production!

Final movie

Mili Baby: Fralda Pants | Animatic

Promotional video for Mili Baby's new product.

Final movie

Valorant: Neon Cinematic | Animatic

15s cinematic for Valorant featuring Neon's dash powers.

Final movie

Overtime, visual development for an original show pilot. (2024) Developed as my graduate thesis.

Character Line-up
Design placeholders for storyboard
Color tests

Juniper exploration and expressions
Eva exploration and expressions
Esper poses and expressions
Emmet exploration and expressions
Alfie exploration and expressions
Jan and Gloria expressions
Mr. Bane exploration and expressions

Posing
Posing
Posing

Concept art: Alfie and Emmet go through the Fabula Foundation entrance hall
Concept art: Gloria and Mr. Bane
Concept art: Beneath the Foundation

Concept Art: Juniper's study desk

Concept art: Ruin pillars
Concept art: Alfie's lamp post
Concept art: Emmet's well
Concept art: the Octahedron
Concept art: Altar statue

A Lenda de Monsterra (2022), teaser produced as part of our Animation undergraduate program at UFSC along with Jorge Rangel and Gabriel Olivier.

Poster Breakdown
First design pass
Astor Turnaround
Elba Turnaround
Hugo Turnaround
Children Modelsheet
Igrid Modelsheet
Greta, Mother Agnes, Brina and King Calvus III drawn by Jorge Rangel
Props
Background: The Great Portal
Background Enchanted Forest
Background: Bedroom

Gouda (2023), short film produced for CG classes as Animation undergraduate at UFSC.

The Rotfather character and prop exploration (2023) | Visit the project's website

Other work - mostly fan art and personal illustrations.

The Magnus Protocol Fanart (Jan/2024)
Good Omens Fanart (Oct 2023)
Good Omens Fanzine (GO RomCom Zine) Contribution
Critical Role Campaign 3 Character Line-up

Story Portfolio

A series of boards done for a few projects. Many of these sequences are from Overtime, my graduate thesis project (2024). You can find the full edited animatic by clicking here.

Overtime story sequence: Chamber opens
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Strixhaven story sequence: "Home"
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Overtime story sequence: Meeting Esper
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Strixhaven story sequence: "Mentor"
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Overtime story sequence: The Fabula Foundation
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Overtime story sequence: Floating runes and fleeting whispers
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Other animatics:

The Queen of White Lies - The Orion Experience [Original Character Animatic] (Jul, 2023)

CR 3 E65 Fan Animatic (Jul, 2023)

"Gouda" Animatic (Mar, 2023)

About & Contact

Hi!I'm Mariel, a character designer and story artist based in Florianópolis, Brazil, with a passion for creative storytelling coupled with themes such as fantasy, suspense and generally slice-of-life. I also love designing characters in ways that bring their personalities to its fullest through colors and shapes!Currently working at Spirit Animation as storyboard artist and studying animation at UFSC.

Previous Experience	Year
Spirit Animation	03/2024 - Now	Storyboard artist
G2E \| The Rotfather	2023 - 2024	Character/Prop Designer
Cafundó Estúdio \| Dó Ré Mi da Sol	2022	Character Designer
Freelance	2019 - Now	Generalist Illustrator