Cailyn Santos

Highly organized and detail-oriented individual

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Intro

Douglasville, United States

Studied Animation at Savannah College of Art and Design

Joined June 3, 2024

Skills

Languages

English

Fluent

About

Hello! My name is Cailyn Santos. I'm 2D animator credits with Netflix, Marvel, and Adult Swim. I'm in love with Animation and the entire process and pipeline, and now I'm ready to take those skills I've learned and apply them to a new career path.

Experience

Koobits Learning

Jan 2024 – May 2024

Remote

Freelance 2D Animator

Developed appealing and educational animated gifs for an English teaching educational program • Efficiently produced 400+ animated gifs and implemented new pipeline and feedback strategy for the company and all their freelancers, resulting in better communication moving forward. • Established an organized library of assets including characters, props, templates, and reuse animations to increase productivity by 10%.

Alane Adams Studios

Mar 2024 – Apr 2024

Remote

Contract 2D Animator

Recruited by name to assist current animation team to produce a children’s animated short within three weeks • Became a reliable source of discovering flaws and bugs within the character rigs for future revisions, allowing for smoother animations for all artists. • Mentored the team as an experienced industry animator and produced 20+ seconds of animation per week to ensured we met a tight deadline.

Floyd County Productions

Apr 2023 – Sep 2023

Remote

2D Animator

Composed snappy and entertaining animation based on existing TV Show • Maintained reputation as fastest animator on the team, and played a key role in animating at least 50% of entire production of 5 episodes. • Sought after to provide swift revisions across on top of my current assignments for all episodes, ensuring the team meet tight deadlines.

Awesome Inc

Jul 2022 – Mar 2023

Remote

2D Animator

Produced high-quality character acting for a feature length production • Responsible for tackling a high quantity and quality of shots, pushing productivity forward by 15%. • Excelled in dancing animation, and therefore requested and was responsible for the ending dance sequence of the film.

Floyd County Productions

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022

Remote

Lead Animator

Directed a team of 10+ animators, responsibilities including facilitating feedback and completing revisions • Addressed pressing creator feedback myself and allowed my team to continue forward to increase productivity by 10%. • Adapt in tracking details of each episode and implemented feedback to entire team to keep continuity and reduce future note and changes.

Floyd County Productions

Feb 2019 – Aug 2021

Remote

2D Animator

Created expressive and dynamic character performances for both television and feature productions • Adaptability with style, skills in animating and character rigging, and production speed resulted in requests from different departments to join their team. • Ensured quality of all productions by addressing technical notes for all animators and character riggers, resulting in a promotion to Lead Animator.

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design

Sep 2014 – Jun 2018

BFA, Animation