Sophia Johnson
2D Animator and Concept Artist, Aquest
New York, NY June 2024 - present
Currently am working remotely on an animation video for Aquest as a freelancer. Drew character designs
and concept art for the world of Aquest, painted backgrounds for the Aquest world in the animation.
Animated keyframes and in-betweens for many shots.
General Assistant, VIEW Conference 2024
Turin, Italy, June - October 2024
Professional Experience
Worked as a general assistant hybrid for VIEW Conference 2024, helping out with both partnerships,
social media and marketing. Designed posters for online promotional activities and marketing.
Researched and reached out to animation studios, establishing partnerships between the conference and studios.
Video Editing Internship, Design & Customize LLC
Burlingame, CA June - August 2023
Created 3D and 2D animations for advertisement on Instagram. Modeled, textured and animated assets
in Blender, and composited videos to match the brand. Added and edited stock library audio to provided footage and made many different designs of logo openings for each advertisement clip.
Graphic Design Internship, Dim Events
Chicago, IL Dec 2021- May 2022
Designed logos and fliers for advertisement.
3D Animator Internship, FlashMonkey Inc.
Chicago, IL July 2021 - Jan 2022
Designed the mascot of the company and created a 3d model based on it. Painted and rigged the model
in Maya for animating. Made 3 demo animations to demonstrate the character, and created an introduction video for the company.
Group Exhibitions
2020 At Home through the Phone, Group Show
2021 Imaginary Worlds, Group Show on Mozilla Hub
2022 SAIC @ the Field Museum, Group Show
2023 FVNMA Siskel Festival 2023 thesis show
Conferences
2024 VIEW Conference, Turin, Italy
Panelist for Young People in VIEW: Storytelling and Climate Change
2019 Homescape, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
Education
School of Visual Arts
New York, 2023-present
Master of Fine arts, Computer Arts
Graduation date: 05/2025
School of the Art Institute
of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois 2019-2023
Bachelor Fine arts, Animation,
Merit Scholarship Recipient
Visual artist that is currently pursuing a path of telling stories through imagery. Focusing on creating illustration and animation both 2D and 3D to convey stories that will inspire people and make them happy.
Maya
Adobe Photoshop,
Premiere, After Effects
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro
Houdini
Substance Painter
Zbrush
Toon Boom Harmony
Clip Studio Paint EX
Languages
English (native)
Chinese (proficient)