Co-Foundere & Creative Director
April 2020 - February 2023
Super Dope is a boutique animation studio that I co-founded and ran studio operations end-to-end. This included intake, bidding, finance, freelance network, and schedules. We kept it running with artists and clients across 3 continents while retaining client relationships like Youtube, Spotify, Psyop, Chik-Fil-A, Amazon, Coke, Aardman Nathan Love, Bath and Body Works, Hornet, and HOPR.
What I built
My role was the operational backbone of the business: translating creative ambitions into runnable productions, keeping the financials healthy, and assembling a global network of artists that could flex with any project. Additionally, I got my hands dirty as a Principal CG Artist.
Infrastructure
Designed project intake systems that balanced fast-moving client timelines with sustainable team workloads, while building and maintaining Notion and Monday databases to track capacity, tasks, and freelance availability.
Team & Culture
Built a streamlined bidding system for fast, accurate client estimates, managed the full financial pipeline from payments to reporting, and regularly provided leadership with clear operational updates, pain points, and next steps.
Direction
Worked as a principal character and environment artist, developing production solutions that enabled rapid asset creation at scale and leading hero character work for partner studios and clients including YouTube, Meta, and Spotify.
Assortment of “Bootyshaker” Characters from our campaign celebrating web3 artists
Outcomes
We built Super Dope from nothing — no existing client list, no infrastructure, no playbook. Three years later, we had a profitable studio, a retained roster of major clients who came back project after project, and a reputation for delivering on time, every time.
100%
ON TIME DELIVERY
3 YEARS
PROFITABLE FROM DAY 1
CLIENTS
LARGE BRANDS
TEAM
SMALL BUT
MIGHTY
