About
Hi there, I am Michelle. I live in the Netherlands and right now I am studying Animation-Illustration at AKV. St. Joost.
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My main focus lies in worldbuilding, environmental storytelling and 3Dmodeling and animation.
I love how a place can tell a story.
I love doing research when I am working on a project . There is so much that can be told by the details of a place, object, person or story that makes it interesting and unique. While doing research I think it is so much fun to learn things that I would not normally. It is amazing what you can find through working on a animation. And how that can enrich the story that you’re telling.
It’s always fun to build a world and to see how it comes together with all the animation, texturing and lighting.
That is why I love being a part of a team because I think that it is a great way to see and use everyone’s talents and see that to the full potential, and to learn from others.
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Education
August 2017 - Now Higher General Secondary Education
- AKV St. Joost, Breda Netherlands Bachelor Animation-Illustration
September 2019- January 2019 Minor Animation at Luca-Arts Genk
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November 2015 – March 2016 Saturday school AKV St. Joost.
- A few months, each Saturday. At the end I got accepted to the studie I am currently doing.
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September 2012- June 2017 Higher Vocational Education
- Strabrecht College, Geldrop Netherlands
Work experience
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September 2020- January 2021 Internship Job, Joris & Marieke
- Working as a modeler
on the 3D animated TV show 'Kop Op/ Heads UP'
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2016 Tableaux mediamakers, Heeze Netherlands
- My internship here was a week,
I got a few exercises in making logos,
paper and envelopes for a company.
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August 2016 - Now Coppelmans
- Weekend work
- Cashier
- florist
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2013-2015 Axender
- Delivering newspapers
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Skills
I play the saxophone, in a marching band and a cover band.
I can work with :
- Maya
- ZBrush
- Advanced skeleton (rigging)
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Premiere
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
-Adobe Audition
- Krita
- Tv-paint
- Google Sketch-up
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I have a driver license
Languages I speak Dutch, English.
I can understand and speak a bit German.
I also understand some French.
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