ABOUT ME
Annika Ah-Chow is currently a Design and Layout Artist, and alum of the Honour's Bachelor of Animation at Sheridan College.
She is very passionate about design, composition, and strives to establish honest and interesting stories. She is an enthusiastic and passionate artist who has a deep love for all things creative, and finds joy in creating works that inspire people and make them think.
She is comfortable in collaborative roles, enjoys team based activities, and takes satisfaction in the concept of working together to make a stronger whole.
Giving and receiving positive constructive feedback is one of her fortes, and she loves to collaborate and learn from the people around her! She has 6 years experience on in-house 2D and 3D Animation productions in various departments, and meets deadlines effectively.
She loves video games, anime, even numbers, cowboys, trading card games, and writing in the third person.
EXPERIENCE
Animator and Designer- ItemLabel
April 2023 - Present
ItemLabel Youtube Shorts
Art directed, and assisted with various stages of production including layout, background paint, animation and compositing on shorts to advertise ItemLabel's variety of products on YouTube. Produced Homie's Sweet Home, The ItemLabel Tournament, Baby Dingle and Howdy Moley.
Character Designer - Cutting Class Media
Janury 2025 - May 2025
Conceptualized background characters for a feature film with a high degree of style and design. Efficient with colour keys, clean up, and working independently without instruction remotely. Collaborated with Director on a weekly basis, and was able to problem solve and coordinate with animation team to make designs easy to work with.
Funpack Artist - Brown Bag Studios
September 2022 - April 2023
Unannounced Nickelodeon Project
Collaborated with Art Director and Producers to interpret scripts and inspiration into polished prop and character designs. Delivered high quality work and helped out with numerous other responsibilities including painting colour keys and designing props and costumes for 3D characters.
Lead Character & Prop Designer - Look Mom! Productions
September 2021 - February 2022
Gary and His Demons Season 2
Maintained a positive attitude, and ability to communicate collaboratively with directors and producers to design characters, props, colour keys, and funpack on style with a high degree of draftsmanship.
2D Key Animator - Look Mom! Productions
January 2021 - September 2021
Doctor's Orders, Vurdulak, Doormouse
Creating key poses for traditionally animated show with clear action, strong posing, efficient timing with solid draftsmanship skills while communicating consistently with team leaders and peers.
Layout and Design Artist - Yowza! Animation
September 2020 - December 2020
Angry Birds
Designing layouts and props from storyboards in vector art to inform the pipeline with strong clarity, staging and composition. Strong technical organization, and flexibility to perform all tasks to a high degree of finish.
Layout and Design Artist - Nelvana Enterprises Inc.
June 2019 - June 2020
Corn and Peg Season 2
Develops clear and well staged layouts from storyboards and story drawings to support acting for animation, and composition in background painting. Accomplishes all tasks on time and quickly, to a strong degree of clarity and quality.
CONTACT
Thank you for your consideration, and I hope we talk soon! Email is for professional business inquiries only.
Email: annika.ahchow@gmail.com
