ILLUSTRATION

ANIMATION, ART DIRECTION, & INDEPENDENT WORK


Demo reel
2018 to 2024




The Pleasure-Dome
Independent short film
Role: director
in progress





How to Engage Introverted Learners
Client: Edutopia
Role: animation
2025





How AI Vaporizes Long-Term Learning
Client: Edutopia
Role: animation
2025





Is it easy to steal an election?
Client: Howtown
Role: animation
Additional motion graphics by Adam Cole
2024





Maine Families
Client: Armadillo Collective
Role: animation
2024





Old Lesbians
Client: Compostudio
Role: art direction and animation

[More...]
2023






Explained, Season 3
Client: Vox/Netflix
Role: motion graphics designer
2020-21


[More coming soon!]




Logo animation (two versions)
Client: Chase Bliss Audio
Role: animation direction
2022






Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup
Co-created with Meghan McDonough and Stevie Borrello
Role: co-director, co-writer, animation direction
2021






Coxswain’s Chicken Kitchen
Independent short film
2020






Summer of Love
Independent short film
2018




MARCIE LACERTE

Marcie LaCerte is a mixed Chinese-American 2D animator, illustrator, and independent filmmaker based in Minneapolis, MN. She is represented by Jacky Winter Studio and teaches illustration at the University of Minnesota. 

She enjoys creating surreal, humorous, and collage-inspired work. In her free time, she edits & produces the podcast Melting Into Air, watches lots of movies, and plays piano.




CONTACT
marcie@marslizard.net
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SELECTED CLIENTS
YouTube
Vox/Netflix
Quartz
NPR
Edutopia
PBS
Great Big Story
Giphy




SELECTED AWARDSADC Young Guns Finalist (2024)
COLORFUL Finalist (2024)
Jerome Hill Alternate Artist Fellow (2023)
Creative Culture Fellow (2022)
The New Yorker Documentary Selection (2021)
Vimeo Staff Pick (2018)




PRESS & TALKS
Coming soon








Personal reportage illustration inspired by the Minnesota Renaissance Festival
Medium: digital

[More...]
2025





Personal editorial illustration for New Scientist’s “How to nurture the right mindset for living to 100”
Medium: digital
2025





Personal
Mediums: watercolor & digital
2025




Summer stickers
Client: Jacky Winter
Medium: digital
2025




Created for Melting Into Air
Medium: digital
2025





Personal
Medium: digital
2025




Personal
Medium: watercolor
2024




Personal
Mediums: ink & digital color
2023





Dragon Well Tea
Client: Great Big Story
Medium: digital
2021




Sketchbook
Mediums: pencil, ink, watercolor
2025

© Marcie LaCerte 2025