Harriet Neeley
About Me
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Recent RISD graduate passionate about animation, storytelling, and design. Seeking to bring
expressive animations and unique visual styles to life within a collaborative studio environment.
Self-Employed, Remote: July 2025 – Present
- ProGuard Insurance: Created 20+ custom illustrations/icons for the company’s website.
- Real Estate 109: Designed posters, brochures, and flyers to support marketing efforts.
- Collaborated with clients to develop cohesive visual styles and deliver on tight deadlines.
Illustration Intern
NASA, Orion Communications Team, Houston TX: June 2024 – Aug. 2024
- Designed posters and promotional materials translating complex engineering research into accessible visuals.
- Modeled and textured Orion spacecraft components in Blender for museum displays.
- Assisted with outreach events to promote Orion’s mission.
Teaching Assistant
RISD FAV Department, Providence RI: Sep. 2023 – Feb. 2025
- Assisted in 3 courses: Animation Practices, Experiments in Stop Motion, Motion Capture for Orature.
- Guided students in learning animation principles, stop motion techniques, and motion capture workflows.
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Troubleshot technical issues and provided one-on-one mentorship on storytelling and design.
Game Development Artist
Brown/RISD Game Development Club, Providence RI: Sep. 2022 – Dec. 2024
- Designed and animated 2D assets/characters for games in a collaborative student team.
- Contributed to character, environment, and visual design.
BFA Film/Animation/Video (FAV) – with Honors
SKILLS Art + Design
- Visual storytelling, character animation, CGI, stop motion, character design, environment design, illustration, figure drawing, perspective drawing
Software
- Blender, Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro), Unity, Unreal Engine, Marvelous Designer, Nomad Sculpt, Dragonframe, Java, Python, HTML/CSS
Other
- Resourcefulness, problem-solving, time management, attention to detail, creative collaboration
PROJECTSHow I Lost Your Cake
Senior Thesis Film: Sep. 2024 – May 2025
- Directed and animated an 8-minute short.
- Integrated CGI, motion capture, hand-drawn animation, and VFX into a hybrid visual style
AWARDS/EXHIBITIONS RISD Honors Student, 2021-2025
Film Festival Participations
- NYU Toon Gulch, 2025
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Boston Underground Film Festival, 2024
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Ivy Film Festival, 2024
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San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, 2024
- GERF Originality Award, Duck and Red Octopus Film Festival, 2023
Exhibitions
- Emerging Young Artists Juried Exhibition, UMass Dartmouth, 2021
- Art All-State Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, 2021