clean up artist
2021 - 2022 for Amped, 2D Pixar Co-Op Shortfilm
Screened at Pixar Animation Studios 2024. Animated the final lined-and-colored shots over rough animation in Toon Boom and met biweekly with the director, producer, and anim. supervisor to discuss edits and creative solutions, in order to deliver shots with detail-oriented quality, while on schedule with adjacent production teams.
Showrunner
2022 - Current for Supercrip - Indie Animation
Upon finding an inaccessible film industry, built a new workflow using emerging tech (not AI), garnered a small team of disabled femmes, then scripted, designed, and began producing for ep. 1. We received emails about how meaningful the project was before it even released and raised $6k in grassroots crowdfunding.
Director + Editor
2020 - 2021 for Ensemble Connect Concert
Planned, produced, and edited the multi-platform webcast. Invented a VFX technique to integrate quarantining musicians into a 360-video environment using only the equipment on hand (flashlights, cell phones, no green screens). Within a week it was Carnegie Hall's most watched video of the year.
Freelance artist
2015 - Current for YouTubers and Portraiture
Bob World Builder - 200K Subs: Layout design (InDesign), background paintings, and prop design for monthly D&D Modules.
Amethyst SZS - 65K Subs: Paintings for “Starting Soon” screen on Twitch and branding on YouTube.
Portraiture and Custom Gifts for clients from the New York Times to the oldest running bakery in the world.
Graphic design intern
2019 for The Spark Group
Used brand guidelines to create illustrations, animations, and assets for web, print, and social media. Introduced 3D-camera animation to the digital ad agency's work; as a direct result of this success, the rest of the team received training in After Effects.
Editor in Chief
+ head Writer
2017 - 2020 for Comic Book League
Led the writing team and their weekly meetings to create tangible goals, take meeting notes, develop their skills, and write production-ready comic scripts. My digitization initiative doubled our readership and built accessibility for our disabled members.
Freelance Artist
2016 - now for Branding & Art & Film scores
From logos for Polo's US Women's Open to 6’ tall photorealistic portraits to winning Ultra Violet Live at Third North for songwriting, which Lady Gaga also won when she was Isabella's age.
New York University 2017 - 2021
Tisch School of the Arts, B.F.A. Film & TV
Dean's List 2017-2021, Founders Day Award,
Summa Cum Laude, 3.9 GPA
Georgia State University 2015 - 2017
Full-time college student at fifteen
President's List 2015-2017, 4.2 GPA
Learn so fast, I collect skills like they’re stamps
Horse whisperer but for Efficient anti-disciplinary solutions
Writing things that make people go haha
Leading and building up creative teams
Making people smile :)
Adobe
Premiere Pro
After Effects
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Animation
ToonBoom
Procreate
Nuke
Web
Webflow
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
Writing
Final Draft
Fluent Italian
“Beyoncé works hard. She works harder than me. She works harder than all of you. Well except for Isabella.”
Habib Azar
Seven-time Emmy Award-Winning Director
Professor - June 13 2018
“[Isabella's] talent has shined through each day… Future jobs and clients will be very lucky to have her.”
Kenya Brooks
Senior Graphic Designer
Supervisor at The Spark Group - December 18 2019
“This is stunning 🙌 🙌 🙌”
So You Think You Can Dance
Renowned TV Dance Competition
In response to animation - January 15 2020
“Wow I don’t even think I wrote that much for the soundtrack.”
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Guest-star from My Brother My Brother and Me
In response to 25pg paper on Moana Score - May 17 2018
Can fly a small plane if under pressure
Can sew cute clothes
Can recite pi to the 35th digit