'Overtime' Visual Development
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Storyboards & Animatics
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Storyboard & Visual Development
© SPIRIT Animation
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'Sol em Dó Ré Mi' Character Design
© Cafundó Estúdio Criativo
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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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Neon Cinematic
Valorant
Respiratory Syncytial Virus
GSK
Funk do Defenza
Defenza
Fralda Pants
Mili Baby
Valorant®: Neon Cinematic
Animatic
15s cinematic for Valorant featuring Neon's dash powers.
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Final movie
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
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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!
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Final movie
Mili Baby®: Fralda Pants
Animatic
Promotional video for Mili Baby's new product.
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Final movie
Overtime, visual development for an original show pilot (2024). Developed as my undergraduate thesis.
At the end of this page you can also find the 14' animatic I made as a proxy for an hypothetical pilot episode.
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
Overtime (Pilot) | 14' Mystery/Fantasy animated series animatic
Thank you for staying until the end!
A Lenda de Monsterra (2022), teaser produced as part of our Animation undergraduate program at UFSC along with Jorge Rangel and Gabriel Olivier. Watch the final short film below!
The orphans Astor, Elba and Hugo go on a magical adventure to find their true families - but end up uncovering the mysteries of the lost land of Monsterra.
Poster Breakdown
First design pass
Astor Turnaround
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Elba Turnaround
![Hugo Turnaround]()
Hugo Turnaround
Children Modelsheet
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Igrid Modelsheet
Greta, Mother Agnes, Brina and King Calvus III drawn by Jorge Rangel
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Props
![Background: The Great Portal]()
Background: The Great Portal
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Background Enchanted Forest
Background: Bedroom
Gouda (2023), short film produced for CG classes as Animation undergraduate at UFSC. Watch the full short film below!
A little mouse, Gouda, tries to reach a piece of gouda cheese.
Animatic VS Final
Visual Development
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
Personal Projects
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Professional Work [Public]
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Professional Work [Private]
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Story Portfolio | Personal Projects
A series of boards done for a few projects. Many of these sequences are from Overtime, a 14 min pilot animatic for an original mystery/fantasy animated show. This project was also my undergrad thesis (2024) and also features visual development material, which can be found 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)
Story Portfolio | Professional Work
A few storyboard sequences I worked on, mainly for advertising. I also worked on visual development for some of these projects, which you can check out clicking on the projects.
GSK: RSV Awareness Campaign © SPIRIT Animation
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Valorant: Neon Cinematic © SPIRIT Animation
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Mili Baby: Fralda Pants © SPIRIT Animation
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Defenza: Funk do Defenza © SPIRIT Animation
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About & Contact
Hi!I'm Mariel, a storyboard artist, character designer and overall 2D generalist based in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I'm passionate about creative storytelling and silly visual gags coupled with themes such as fantasy, suspense and generally slice-of-life.Currently seeking opportunities focused on storyboard and visual development for feature films. Hit me up if you have a project in mind!
| Previous Experience | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| StartAnima | 12/2025 - now | Storyboard artist and Character Designer on Feature Film |
| MSP - Turma da Mônica | 04/2026 - now | Freelance Illustrator |
| Spirit Animation | 03/2024 - 04/2026 | Storyboard artist, VisDev Artist, Illustrator |
| G2E | The Rotfather | 2023 - 2024 | Character/Prop Designer |
| Cafundó Estúdio | Sol em Dó Ré Mi | 2022 | Character Designer |
| Freelance | 2019 - Now | Generalist Illustrator |
