8 min
An artist moves to a mysterious island to focus on her work. Quickly, she becomes obsessed with one of her projects.
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5 min
We asked 20 people from around the world to tell us about the dreams they had in quarantine.
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3 min
A deranged man advertises his fried chicken restaurant.
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Playtime: ~1 hour
Your car breaks down in a valley. In search for help, you go looking for the elusive Mechanic.
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3 min
A girl goes out in the summertime looking for love.
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Client: Chase Bliss Audio
Role: Animation director
I created a mixed-media looping logo bumper for a Minneapolis-based effects pedal company.
Client: Giphy
Role: Animation director and sound designer
I created an animation that documented the unusual things I suddenly noticed around New York City after I received the COVID-19 vaccine and finally emerged from quarantine.
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Client: Invisibilia x Everything is Alive
Role: Animation director
What does an fMRI machine think about? And what does it want? I created an animation for an excerpt from the podcast Everything is Alive in collaboration with Invisibilia.
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Client: NPR / Invisibilia
Role: Animation director
I produced a mixed-media animation to accompany a short podcast excerpt about the science and psychology of personality. Screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (2018).
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Client: Compostudio
Roles: Art director and animator
I developed a mixed-media visual identity and directed animated sequences for a documentary about the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project.
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Client: Howtown
Role: Animator
I created character-focused editorial animations for an explainer about election security.
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Client: Vox / Netflix
Role: Motion designer
Art director: Caresse Haaser
I worked as a motion designer for eight episodes of Explained. Featured episodes: Chess, Plastic Surgery, Sugar, and Fairy Tales.
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Roles: Producer, editor, and art director
I currently develop the visual identity and create illustrations for a long-form narrative podcast about the history of the Victorian empire. I also produce, edit, and craft sound design for this show.
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2025 – present
2019 – 2021
2017 – 2018
Marcie LaCerte is a mixed Chinese-American animator, director, and illustrator based in Minneapolis. She is represented by Jacky Winter Studio and adjuncts at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where she teaches illustration and animation. Her films have screened at Ottawa International Animation Festival, GLAS Animation, and AFI Docs, and she has worked on documentaries acquired by The New Yorker and The Guardian. The Pleasure-Dome is her latest short film.
Marcie’s work is irreverent, darkly comic, and character-driven. She is interested in psychological and atmospheric narratives, and her films and illustrations follow alienated figures traversing surreal, gothic landscapes. She merges traditional and digital techniques in her process, using a stop motion-inspired collage approach to create flat but tactile compositions influenced by puppetry and theatrical staging.
In her free time, she likes playing piano, watching Survivor, listening to podcasts, and looking at vintage clothes on eBay.
marcie@marslizard.net
artist statement & CV
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- editorial animation, art direction, and illustration
- mixed-media collage and stop motion animation
- stories about human behavior, niche subcultures, social critique, the internet, memories and archives, and anything offbeat
- drawings of little cartoon people in funny little outfits
- sophisticated and high-minded vaudevillian humor (like slipping on a banana peel)
Vox / Netflix
NPR
Quartz
YouTube
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
ADC Young Guns Finalist (2024)
COLORFUL Finalist (2024)
Jerome Hill Alternate Artist Fellow (2023)
Creative Culture Fellow (2022)
Vimeo Staff Pick (2018)
The AJC’s best illustrations of 2025
The New Yorker (2021)
CBC Radio (2021)
It’s Nice That (2017, 2021)
Edge Guard Cast
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