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








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. 

Her work explores and is influenced by surrealism, collage, stop motion animation, comedy, and comics. In her free time, she edits/produces the podcast Melting Into Air, watches lots of movies, and plays piano.

ANIMATION, ART DIRECTION, & INDEPENDENT WORK
ILLUSTRATION

CONTACTmarcie@marslizard.net
Linkedin
Instagram
YouTube
Etsy
are.na

© Marcie LaCerte 2025