MORIAH BURTON…
…is a fun-loving, hardworking, and diligent artist and storyteller. She loves drawing, writing, and taking care of cats!
Burton is working to transition into a career in storyboarding for animation after working as a motion graphics artist since 2012.
Apart from studying art and writing, her intellectual interests include learning about physics, animal science, psychology, philosophy, and optimistic nihilism.
On weekends she enjoys long walks with friends, visiting the Natural History Museum, the Zoo, or the Science Center, and volunteering at Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats!
Education
Burton graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Southern California. She studied Film Production, and minored in Animation and Philosophy. Burton continues her studies with online drawing classes, and has taken classes in storyboarding, perspective, anatomy, and composition from The Animation Guild, Animation Mentor, and others.
Career
Burton is working to transition into a career in storyboarding for animation after working as a motion graphics artist since 2012. Some of her favorite roles in the past have included making simple 2D digital character animations and motion graphics for Brave New Films, Rooted in Rights, Scare LA, and Ellen Digital (the digital arm of The Ellen Show.)
To create these motion graphics, Burton boarded and designed the look of the piece by hand, then build assets in either Adobe illustrator or After Effects, and animated in After Effects. See the work in action on the reels page!