mickey quinn
storyboard artist & character designer • mickequ@gmail.com
About
✿ NEXT AVAILABILITY FEBRUARY 2025 ✿Originally from upstate NY, I've been working in the animation industry in Los Angeles since 2015. In 2021 I was nominated for an Emmy as part of an Outstanding Writing Team for a Daytime Animated Program, for our storyboard work on Adventure Time: Distant Lands.
Notable Work
Bruce Timm, Matt Reeves & JJ Abram's Batman: Caped Crusader
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Brawl Stars: Brawliday Symphony Short
Portfolio
Contact
Character Design for Animation
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STORY
Work EXP
Batman: Caped Crusader S2 (WBA) Storyboard Artist 2024-Present
Unannounced Series (Titmouse) Storyboard Artist 2022-2023
Batman: Caped Crusader S1 (WBA) Storyboard Artist 2022-2023
Disenchantment (Rough Draft) Assistant Director 2022
Brawl Stars: Brawlidays Symphony (Buck) Freelance Storyboard Artist 2021
Fired on Mars (Rough Draft) Storyboard Artist 2021
Disenchantment (Rough Draft) Storyboard Artist 2019-2020
Legend of Vox Machina (Titmouse) Freelance Cleanup, 2020
Adventure Time Distant Lands: Obsidian (Cartoon Network) Storyboard Artist 2019
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Dreamworks TV) Storyboard Artist 2016-2019
Ben 10 Reboot (Cartoon Network) Storyboard Artist 2016
Steven Universe (Cartoon Network) Freelance Revisions for episode Alone at Sea, 2015
CHARACTER
Work EXP
Unannounced Series (Titmouse)
Character Special Outfit Design 2023Unproduced, Unannounced Series (Disney TVA)
Development, Main Character Concept Art 2019Monster High (Mattel)
TV Pitch Development, Main Character Concept Art 2019She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Dreamworks TV)
S5E13 "Heart Pt. 2"
Character Special Outfit Design, 2019The Adventure Zone: Balance Animated Trailer
Character Design (in collaboration with Ray Geiger), 2017She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Dreamworks TV)
S1E8 "Princess Prom"
Character Special Outfit Design, 2017She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Dreamworks TV)
Early Development, Main Character Concept Art 2016
Awards
2021 Daytime Emmy Awards, Nomination Outstanding Writing Team for a Daytime Animated Program, Adventure Time: Distant Lands (2020)
Education
Maryland Institute College of Art Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration 2015 Summa Cum Laude
Character Design Development: Monster High
Towards the end of 2019, I had the incredible opportunity to do character design development on a pitch for the upcoming (at the time) reboot of Monster High for Mattel in collaboration with ND Stevenson. This version of MH would've been 2D animated, so a main concern was balancing complex & fashionable outfits suitable for dolls with simple designs that could be drawn repeatedly during the animation process. They ended up going with a different pitch entirely, but I'm still extremely proud of what we created!
Character Design Development: She-Ra
Shortly before I worked as a Storyboard Artist on She-Ra, I was delighted to have a chance to try and update the 1980's designs during the development of the reboot. Another designer's work was chosen as the basis for the final show, but it was still a great experience.
Special Outfit Design: She-Ra Princess Prom
While working on She-Ra, as the resident clotheshorse, I was tasked with doing concept sketches for the episode Princess Prom - in which all the characters would be wearing special formal outfits! A dream come true for me, I had a lot of fun doing these sketches & going back and forth with character designer Ray Geiger to finalize the looks.
Special Outfit Design: She-Ra Heart Flash Forward
Nearing the end of She-Ra, ND Stevenson asked me to create dreamlike looks for Adora's vision of a peaceful future in the final episode.
Character Design: Adventure Zone BALANCE Animated Trailer (+ fanart)
There were quite a few fans of the podcast The Adventure Zone at Dreamworks back in the day! Our colleague Meg Lloyd reached out to Ray Geiger & myself to collaborate on preliminary character designs for an animated trailer based on The Adventure Zone: Balance. The final product can be seen on The McElroy Family youtube channel, and has over 2 million views! There were a number of hands on a lot of the images you see here - please check out the full credits for info on cleanup, color styling, etc.
On top of the designs for the trailer, I have quite the catalog of personal fanart of The Adventure Zone - as a podcast that had no "official designs" for the characters (or anything else!), the fan community was an excellent place to play around with character design & narrative illustration. The images here were created on my own time to suit my personal whims.
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