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Howdy! I'm Chloe and I'm a freelance animator and motion graphics designer. I'm a recent graduate from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where I studied motion graphics, coding, and data journalism. Check out some of my favorite creations.

Animation & Motion Graphics

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This is part one of a freelance animated series I made for WIRED. Working with their social media leads I helped select the topic, created storyboards, and drew and animated the assets.

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

 Sleep Procrastination: Part 1
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This is part 2 of the freelance animated explainers for WIRED. I created storyboards and drew and animated the assets. We wanted to provide a solution to the issues raised in part 1.

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

 Sleep Procrastination: Part 2
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This is the final installment of my 5-part master's thesis of animated explainer videos for the University of California, Berkeley.  

This is my master's thesis: a portfolio of animated explainer videos for the popular short-form video platform, TikTok. The project has been published under WIRED's TikTok account. 

Let'sTok: mRNA
Obama

This Obama animation was part of my summer mentor practice. The task was to emulate a particular editing style. Full video on my Vimeo page.

Rosa

This was my first successful AfterEffects experiment. I was given some documents and I altered and animated them, full clip on my Vimeo page.

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The Reefs

This is the animation I composed as a final project. The video was on the state of the ocean reefs, full video on my Vimeo page.

Written Projects

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New York Times: COVID in Colleges

As a New York Times News Assistant, I helped collect data used for this interactive which documents infections on college campuses across the United States. Work like this intervactive won my team the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. 

New York Times: Incarcerated and Infected

 As a New York Times News Assistant, I helped collect the vital information to create this investigative look at COVID in prisons. I was responsible for contacting remote facilities, interviewing incarcerated people, and updating our national spreadsheet. 

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