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Aria DiCesaris
Prop Design
Titmouse Mentorship
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Aria DiCesaris
Prop Design
Titmouse Mentorship
Contact Me!
Prop Design
Titmouse Mentorship
Contact Me!
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Aria DiCesaris

Glendale, California | aria.dicesaris@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariadicesaris

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Animator and Character Designer – “Lady Like” : November 2023-January 2024

▪ Led artistic team by assigning work and setting up workflows between the animation and compositing teams to streamline the animation process.

▪ Solidified 15+ character designs of Drag Queens and supporting characters for the animation segments.

Developed an animation style that would be elegant but simple enough to complete on a tight deadline.

Materials and Operations Coordinator – Sundance Film Festival: November 2022-February 2023

▪ Edited, tagged and uploaded hundreds of images per day to Sundance’s preferred dimension specifications.

▪ Managed press line image assets by working with the Director of Communications to make the first round of image selections, then caption and upload approved images in real time during films’ premieres.

▪ Assisted with miscellaneous preparation tasks– designing camera tags, printing radio call sheets and transporting materials to ensure the team was set up for success. Consistently dedicated to the well-being of colleagues and the success of the festival.

Freelance Animator – “Moving Yet Stuck” Live Performance: August 2022-January 2023

▪ Participated in meetings to discuss timeline, art style and divide assignments.

▪ Organized and adjusted files to be in the correct format so multiple users could access the files to maintain quality checks throughout the project

▪ Uploaded and distributed animation files to artists and tracked the progress through the pipeline in Google Sheets.

▪ Took notes from our meetings to keep track of timelines, progress reports, and director requests.

▪ Supported the artistic team with a positive and uplifting attitude.

Director and Creator – “See You Soon” Senior Thesis Short Film: August 2020-May 2021

▪ Storyboarded and edited 5 minute short from initial animatics to the completed short film.

▪ Organized and assigned animation files to a small team of underclassmen, working with and tracking the progress of the cleanup and color teams for each shot throughout the pipeline in Google Sheets.

▪ Scheduled daily work hours and due dates for each shot to ensure the short film would be completed by the deadline.

▪ Responsible for all the editing, compositing and producing of the entire short film.

▪ Showcased short film at the Chapman University Senior Thesis Screening at the end of the summer.

Titmouse Prop Design Mentee with Logan Paige: June 2025-August 2025

▪ Shadowed weekly Kiff team design meetings to discuss draw overs from other prop design and background design artists.

▪ Delivered 10-15 poses to be reviewed and critiqued as sketches, line work and final designs, making edits for each iteration.

▪ Received notes and redraws for errors to learn from and hone skills for the next attempt.

ORGANIZATIONS

▪ Chapman Animation and Visual Effects Club August 2017-June 2021

▪ Women in Animation January 2025-Present

▪ Queer Crush February 2023-Present

EDUCATION

Chapman University, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts August 2021

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Digital Arts—Emphasis in 2D Animation

Minor in Psychology

GPA: 3.40

SKILLS

▪ Adobe Bridge, Acrobat, Flickr, Dropbox, Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Google Sheets, and Google Docs

▪ Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro, and Toon Boom Harmony.