Art of Emily Oetzell
  • About Me
    • Resume
    • Contact
  • Portfolios
    • Director's Reel
    • Action Comedy
    • Kids >
      • Kids NDA
    • Action Adventure
    • Preschool
    • Adult / Primetime
    • Show Samples
    • Illustration
  • Personal Projects
    • Olive and Loki
    • Red Oni, Blue Oni!!
    • StarFall
    • Guard the Garden (2) >
      • Guard the Garden Mobile
    • Near and Far
    • Others (3) >
      • Cereal
      • You are the Heroine
      • Olive
  • Animatics / Animations
    • Animatics
    • Animations >
      • 24 Hours Animation
      • My Animations
  • Social Media
    • Instagram

Professional work

Internships

8 Years Experience Boarding
​2.5 Years Directing

Experienced in and can do:

  • kids
  • adult
  • preschool
  • TV 
  • feature
  • primetime​
  • board driven
  • comedy
  • action adventure
  • comedy action
  • anime humor
  • fun acting
  • pitching suggestions for story rewrites
  • ​punching up gags
  • 2D
  • 3D
  • stop motion

Work

Disney (Aug - Oct 2025)
  • ​​​Storyboard Artist
    • unannounced movie for Disney +
    • freelance

Career Development (Nov 2024 - Oct 2025)
  • Working on new skills and strengthening existing ones including action adventure, character design and writing, as well as creating personal projects. Outside of classes, I do artist studies and writing break downs, then apply those learnings to various projects
    • Action Storyboards with Sung Shin
    • Character Stylization 3-Day Workshop with Crystal Kung
    • Draftsmanship for Animation with Spencer Wan Webinar
    • Kinetic Character Design with Coran Stone
    • Anatomy of Character Design with Michael Hampton 
    • Dynamic Drawing for Action Storyboards with Sharon Sun 
    • Refined Storyboards: Drawing & Performance with Zach Bellissimo

Apartment D (2025)
  • ​​​Storyboard Artist
    • Sanrio's Hello Kitty and other unannounced shorts
    • stop motion, vertical and horizontal format
    • part time

Atomic Cartoons - LA Branch, Union (2021-2024)
  • ​​​Director
    • Red Fish Blue Fish (for Netflix)
      • 2.5 years, from dev to boards
      • boarding and additional writing 
      • worked with team in US and Canada​​
    • ​​​development
  • ​​​Storyboard Artist
    • ​​Oddballs s1 -2 (for Netflix)
    • ​​Wonderoos s1 (temp work)
    • Oddity Woods (development)

Titmouse - Los Angeles (2018-2021)​​
  • ​​​Storyboard Director​​ / Writer (board driven)
    • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart s2 (for Cartoon Network) 
  • ​​​Storyboard Artist
    • Chicago Party Aunt s1 (for Netflix)​​ 
    • FairFax s1 (freelance)
    • We the People "Taxes" music video (for Netflix. freelance)
    • ​unannounced adult pilot
  • Storyboard Artist / Writer (board driven)
    • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart s1 (for Cartoon Network)

Stoopid Buddy Studios (2017-2018)
  • Storyboard Artist
    • SuperMansion s3
    • Robot Chicken s9
    • Hasbro shorts
    • unannounced projects, misc
  • ​Storyboard Revisionist
    • Robot Chicken s9
    • Gloop World
    • Hasbro shorts
    • misc

Cartoon Network (2016)
  • OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes! Animation Jam (2016)
    • Created a 15 sec animation with a team of 3 in 9 hours
  • Spring Production Intern (2016)
    • Uncle Grandpa and We Bare Bears​

Frederator (2015)
  • Summer Production Intern (2015)
    • Channel Frederator​

Education

California State University Fullerton (2012-2017)

Pixar at CCA: Summer Story Intensive / New Voices in Animation (2016) 
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CSSSA (California State Summer School for the Arts) (2011)

Ryman Arts (2011-2012)
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Studios

Picture

Clients

Picture

Contact

  • About Me
    • Resume
    • Contact
  • Portfolios
    • Director's Reel
    • Action Comedy
    • Kids >
      • Kids NDA
    • Action Adventure
    • Preschool
    • Adult / Primetime
    • Show Samples
    • Illustration
  • Personal Projects
    • Olive and Loki
    • Red Oni, Blue Oni!!
    • StarFall
    • Guard the Garden (2) >
      • Guard the Garden Mobile
    • Near and Far
    • Others (3) >
      • Cereal
      • You are the Heroine
      • Olive
  • Animatics / Animations
    • Animatics
    • Animations >
      • 24 Hours Animation
      • My Animations
  • Social Media
    • Instagram