Hello! I'm a freelance 2D animation director and art director working in journalism and documentary. I am also an independent filmmaker and multimedia artist. I am currently working on an independent short film supported by the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship.
Things I'm interested in: stop motion, collage, cel animation, risograph, low framerate 3D animation, interactive fiction, zines, experimental comics, creative coding, comedy, and more!
You can reach me at me@marslizard.net.
About
Marcie LaCerte is a mixed Chinese-American animator and director based in New York City. She is a 2023 Jerome Hill Alternate Artist Fellow and is using her grant to complete production on her forthcoming independent animated short, The Pleasure-Dome.
She is a former Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center, and her work has been recognized by The New Yorker, Vimeo Staff Picks, Ottawa International Animation Festival, GLAS, AFI Docs, and more. Her clients include Vox, PBS, NPR, Quartz, Giphy, and Scientific American. She has given talks at the CalArts Experimental Animation program, the Living Room Light Exchange (New York), Bethany Arts Community, and the Light Grey Art Lab Residency.
She is interested in making personal films that use surrealism and satire to explore themes of identity, memory, and alienation. She enjoys mixing analog and digital techniques in her work. Beyond film, she is also interested in interactive multimedia art. In her free time, she enjoys listening to podcasts, designing HTML-only websites for friends, and talking about Shrek.
Projects
A forthcoming animated film about creativity, isolation, and the internet.
An animated documentary about quarantine dreams. Created in collaboration with Stevie Borrello and Meghan McDonough.
A deranged man advertises his delicious chicken restaurant.
Side Projects
Created a looping logo gif for Chase Bliss Audio, a Minnesota-based audio company.
I combined digital and analog (pen and marker) techniques for this animation.
Here it is on their Instagram: instagram.com/p/CbpsI2ejGkK/
Created for Giphy Clips. I was inspired by getting my COVID vaccine and seeing all the flowers outside.
What does an fMRI machine think about? And what does it want? Created for Invisibilia and Everything is Alive.
A documentary about Geocities, the early web, and digital preservation.
An examination of the weird and wonderful Shrek fandom.
A mixed-media animated film created while I was an intern at NPR.
Work Experience
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Direct animated videos and motion graphics for educational, political, and journalistic entities.
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Visualize client direction and bring abstract or scientific concepts into concrete reality by creating mood boards, storyboards, and style bibles.
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Art direct animators on larger projects by giving feedback, streamlining workflows, creating toolkits, managing expectations, and maintaining a cohesive aesthetic.
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Design assets like text elements, titlecards, editorial illustrations, and footage compositing for smaller projects.
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Featured clients: Wieden+Kennedy, Giphy, PBS, NPR, Quartz, Vox, Scientific American, School of Life, Science Moms, and Berlin-Rosen.
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Designed, storyboarded, and animated motion graphics for eight episodes of season three of Explained on Netflix.
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Collaborated with an art director, junior designer, and producer to create a unique yet cohesive aesthetic for each episode.
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Adhered to quick turnarounds and tracked all visual content across multiple spreadsheets, including archival cue sheets and GFX trackers.
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Experimented with top-down stop motion, handmade collage, analog and digital illustration, rotoscope, and paper cut-out.
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Created motion graphics assets for 20+ YouTube videos, and illustrated and designed various editorial assets for the brand’s website.
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Introduced Dragonframe as a stop-motion tool, streamlining production efficiency, and animated and composited stop-motion assets.
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Designed, storyboarded, and animated motion graphics for Quartz News, a weekly Facebook News show.
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Visualized producers’ concepts by collaborating on unique style directions for each episode while adhering to brand guidelines.
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Produced one self-directed video and co-produced two videos, each with over 200K views on YouTube.
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Composited, designed, illustrated, and animated various assets for non-Quartz News videos, including Because China.
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Designed and animated motion graphics for several videos, and created editorial illustrations for NPR Music and Planet Money.
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Self-produced a multimedia stop-motion video for Invisibilia that premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
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Wore a mustache and acted on camera for a Planet Money video.
Speaking
I gave an artist talk that explored how I use alter egos in my work.
You can see my bibliography here: are.na/marcie-lacerte/…
I discussed how I created my game "An Afternoon Rippling."
I gave an artist talk that explored how I conceptualize chaos in my work. I also gave a collaborative collage zine workshop.
Awards
Received for our documentary, "Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup."
Received for my forthcoming film, "The Pleasure-Dome."
Received for my short film, "Summer of Love."
Received for my game, "An Afternoon Rippling."
Received for my experimental short, "Thporth!"
Academic scholarship received from 2014 to 2016.
Features
Education
I took Sketch 101, Improv 101, and Improv 201.
Transferred in as a junior.
Transferred after my sophomore year.