#261 Corinne Ladeinde

November 23, 2018

Corinne is an award winning animation director with a passion for storytelling, design, animation and illustration.

Inspired by human emotions she explores them through quirky and sometimes surreal, visual metaphors; experimenting with a variety of animation styles and techniques to develop a range of different looks and textures to achieve a sophisticated, tactile feel. She loves creating characters inspired by real people, of all shapes, colours and sizes to reflect a positive impact on her audience.

Corinne's work is loved by parents and children around the world, in particular her short film Ernesto, which won best film audience award at the Oberhausen Children's Festival, silver at the British Animation Awards (Audience Choice) and best music and sound design at ANIMA MUNDI Festival.

Not to mention, she is also powerfully skilled in martial arts... now that's badass.

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#246 **Jo Salmon**

JoAnne is an animator at LoveLove Films, an animation studio based in Bournemouth, and has worked on a range of content including original animated series, TV adverts and broadcast graphis

JoAnne was born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, a genetic condition characterised by deformities of the ears, eyes, cheekbones and chin, which causes breathing problems and hearing difficulties. Never one to let anything get her down, Treacher Collins Syndrome has only spurred JoAnne on, and encouraged her to create beautiful and engaging animated content, including an animated documentary produced by Lovelove Films and commisioned by MoFilm about her journey titled Chin Up.

Throughout her childhood, JoAnne loved to draw herself as heroic characters to escape the insecurity and feeling of being different that came with her condition. However, JoAnne never drew her facial features any differently to fit the scene of a heroic warrior or mystical mermaid.

Chin Up follows JoAnne's story from being 1 in 50,000 babies born with Treacher Collins Syndrome to currently living her dreams as an animator at LoveLove Films. The documentary touches on poignant milestones that have impacted JoAnne and made her the strong and inspirational woman that she is today, highlighting on the female empowerment that is giving 2018 the great ‘Year of Women’ status. JoAnne’s story fits into a much larger story of women in today’s society and the way positive change is happening, and she touches on this with her unique outlook within Chin Up.

Chin Up was narrated, illustrated and animated by JoAnne, giving a true insight to growing up with a visible disability. JoAnne and the LoveLove Films animation team created the documentary with intricate 2D mixed media using childhood photos mixed in with beautiful and colourful illustrations and animation.

Chin Up went live as part of the MoFIlm Many Voices campaign on 23rd August 2018, with a feature in Campaign magazine which can be read here; https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/chin-up-uplifting-story-rebel-creatives/1490074

Since the success of Chin Up, and receiving touching messages from people with and parents of people with disabilities telling her how the documentary has moved them and helped them on their own journey of self acceptance. JoAnne is a central part of the LoveLove Films' team, and is now helping to develop diverse and inspiring content for children and adults alike.

Aside from producing Chin Up and other animated content, JoAnne also speaks at workshops, talks and panels, including two panels for Animated Women UK with women from Disney, Turner, Blue Zoo and Jellyfish.

JoAnne said of Chin Up: "I have learned that being different is not always about outside appearances, it can be on the inside too and everyone wants to feel accepted. I hope that people, no matter of age, gender, race or ability, will be inspired to know that they can be whatever they want to be."

You can watch Chin Up here: https://vimeo.com/286156799
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#246 Joanne Salmon

November 8, 2018

JoAnne is an animator at LoveLove Films, an animation studio based in Bournemouth, and has worked on a range of content including original animated series, TV adverts and broadcast graphis

JoAnne was born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, a genetic condition characterised by deformities of the ears, eyes, cheekbones and chin, which causes breathing problems and hearing difficulties. Never one to let anything get her down, Treacher Collins Syndrome has only spurred JoAnne on, and encouraged her to create beautiful and engaging animated content, including an animated documentary produced by Lovelove Films and commisioned by MoFilm about her journey titled Chin Up.

Throughout her childhood, JoAnne loved to draw herself as heroic characters to escape the insecurity and feeling of being different that came with her condition. However, JoAnne never drew her facial features any differently to fit the scene of a heroic warrior or mystical mermaid.

Chin Up follows JoAnne's story from being 1 in 50,000 babies born with Treacher Collins Syndrome to currently living her dreams as an animator at LoveLove Films. The documentary touches on poignant milestones that have impacted JoAnne and made her the strong and inspirational woman that she is today, highlighting on the female empowerment that is giving 2018 the great ‘Year of Women’ status. JoAnne’s story fits into a much larger story of women in today’s society and the way positive change is happening, and she touches on this with her unique outlook within Chin Up.

Chin Up was narrated, illustrated and animated by JoAnne, giving a true insight to growing up with a visible disability. JoAnne and the LoveLove Films animation team created the documentary with intricate 2D mixed media using childhood photos mixed in with beautiful and colourful illustrations and animation.

Chin Up went live as part of the MoFIlm Many Voices campaign on 23rd August 2018, with a feature in Campaign magazine which can be read here; https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/chin-up-uplifting-story-rebel-creatives/1490074

Since the success of Chin Up, and receiving touching messages from people with and parents of people with disabilities telling her how the documentary has moved them and helped them on their own journey of self acceptance. JoAnne is a central part of the LoveLove Films' team, and is now helping to develop diverse and inspiring content for children and adults alike.

Aside from producing Chin Up and other animated content, JoAnne also speaks at workshops, talks and panels, including two panels for Animated Women UK with women from Disney, Turner, Blue Zoo and Jellyfish.

JoAnne said of Chin Up: "I have learned that being different is not always about outside appearances, it can be on the inside too and everyone wants to feel accepted. I hope that people, no matter of age, gender, race or ability, will be inspired to know that they can be whatever they want to be."

You can watch Chin Up here: https://vimeo.com/286156799

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#159 Hayley Morris

August 13, 2018

Hayley Morris is an award-winning Animation Director specialising in mixed media and stop-motion animation. Using layered textures, hand crafted techniques and inventive storytelling, Hayley is able to bring any idea to life in a unique and fascinating way. Her studio practice revolves around experimentation with tactile materials such as paper, fabrics, found objects and natural materials. She is inspired by nature, surrealism, folklore and wandering city streets. She lives with her husband, Randy, who is a printmaker and their two cats, Bowie and Gladys. Hayley has directed commercials for Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Burt's Bees, Kate Spade, The Detroit Zoo and many others. Hayley also has a passion for creating music videos and has created work for Iron and Wine, Explosions in the Sky, Grammy-award winning violinist Hilary Hahn, and pianist Hauschka. Fun Facts: Hayley loves Bjork and is a self-confessed plant hoarder. She loves spicy food, too! She also spends her Tuesday afternoons teaching and empowering young talent with passions for animation.

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#157 Eugenia Martinez Barbazza

August 11, 2018

Eugenia is an Argentinian born Graphic Designer and Art Director. After living in Spain for several years, she build up an award-wining portfolio specialised in Branding and Motion Design working for clients like Sony, Viacom, Discovery and FOX. Currently based in London, she works as Design Manager leading talented teams of designers collaborating with clients and brands across Europe on a wide range of projects.

As side project she founded her own studio to work on personal and small projects where the impact can be more visible focused mainly in Latin America collaborating with NGOs and small brands. In 2012 she co-founded an NGO to help Argentinian's political prisoners to be heard and fight for their rights.

Alongside this, she collaborates with universities and other institutions, giving lectures and workshops to empower young designers by sharing her experiences as a woman in graphic design, giving back to the next generations of designers.

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#151 Irka Kravets

August 5, 2018

Irka is an art director in Kyiv. Eastern Europe is still pretty sexist state and it's hard for women to get the same amount of recognition and respect for their work. Irka strives to break this stereotype by delivering excellent work and taking an active stance in the feminist enlightenment of people around her. Also, she makes some cool feminism themed merch!

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#149 Ellie Fryer

August 3, 2018

Ellie is a Kingston Illustration Animation Graduate. Working prolifically in a blend of hand drawn and digital illustration. This blending of traditional and digital image-making methods is distinctive of her work. She believe that utilising both styles together allows her to make use of ‘the best of both worlds’. Beginning with traditional drawings allows her the freedom to incorporate reportage pieces from any area of her work. Digitalising this then provides the opportunity to fine-tune and add detail to these drawings, while also giving her the opportunity to create abstract scenes comprised of real-life figures. She tends to use a limited variety of materials, as she feels that she knows what medium she works best in. However, she still enjoys experimenting with and exploring line quality, shape, texture and colour. Ellie’s affection for books and, more predominantly, illustrated books, has led her to pursuing these stylistic and methodological experiments, as well as playing with both sequential and non-linear narratives. Her joy for illustration stems from a love of traditional drawing and obsession with detail.

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#144 Rinat Ashkenazi

July 29, 2018

Rinat is a London based Senior Motion Designer & Art Director. Rinat's creative talents know no bounds and is a constant inspiration to all those around her. She is the epitome of a badass gal leading the charge within the creative industries.

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image1 (1).jpeg — #132 Aïcha Wijland

The most badass girl in the world, from the city with the most badass flag in the world (https://goo.gl/QqLq8f).
She's a Dutch Kiwi, now a Melbourne-based artist/animator. She has a Bachelor in Fine Art & a Graduate Diploma endorsed in Advertising, is currently a student at AWARD school Melbourne & working freelance, and is a 2018 Yellow Pencil D&AD New Blood winner!
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#132 Aïcha Wijland

July 17, 2018

The most badass girl in the world, from the city with the most badass flag in the world (https://goo.gl/QqLq8f).

She's a Dutch Kiwi, now a Melbourne-based artist/animator. She has a Bachelor in Fine Art & a Graduate Diploma endorsed in Advertising, is currently a student at AWARD school Melbourne & working freelance, and is a 2018 Yellow Pencil D&AD New Blood winner!

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#128 Inari Sirola

July 13, 2018

Her work speaks for itself. She makes kick ass illustrations and comics. Most importantly she supplies the baddest music videos for bad ass gals such as lao ra, Emily Burns or Hannah Jane Lewis so they can look just as bad ass as Inari.

She’s got a good sense of humour and good eye for sausages. If you don’t believe it ask her about her new exhibition that she is preparing right now about hot dogs - a delicious American treat with a sausage. Or more like dogs that each represent a certain beauty type with a twist? She can tell you more about it :)

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#112 Sophie Tari

June 27, 2018

Soph is a really talented animator who brings oodles of energy to everything she does.

She created a teaser trailer for the Cartoon Network, London in 2012, check it out here.

She also has the wattage to be a published poet. Soph also runs Egysorosok an Instagram where she posts one line that supports women every week.

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