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bioMarcie 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 densely-layered 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.

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  • editorial animation, art direction, and illlustration

  • mixed-media collage and stop motion animation

  • stories about human behavior, niche subcultures, social critique, the internet, memories and archives, and anything offbeat

  • sophisticated and high-minded vaudevillian humor (like slipping on a banana peel)
 selected clientsVox / Netflix  
NPR  
Quartz  
YouTube  
Atlanta Journal-Constitution  

selected awardsADC Young Guns Finalist (2024)  
COLORFUL Finalist (2024)  
Jerome Hill Alternate Artist Fellow (2023)  
Creative Culture Fellow (2022)  
Vimeo Staff Pick (2018)  

selected press The AJC’s best illustrations of 2025
The New Yorker (2021)
Directors Notes (2021)
CBC Radio (2021)
It’s Nice That (2017, 2021)
Edge Guard Cast

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