STORYBOARDS

WRITING & NARRATIVE DESIGN

Scripts for film and games. Story bibles, setting descriptions, character descriptions, plot development, world building and more...

Writing Portfolio

Check out this interactive writing sample entitled The Ghost.

ANIMATION SHOWREEL

Projects below were collaborative and appropriate credits have been included in the Showreel & additional clips.

ABOUT ME

Story Artist & Narrative Assistant open to work in Narrative Design, Storyboarding or Game Writing. Excited to hop on to a wide variety of projects, it is of note that I am especially passionate about projects in horror, science fiction and fantasy genres and typically for teen and/or adult audiences. Projects outside of these subjects are very welcome!

EXPERIENCE:
NARRATIVE ASSISTANT - Serious Point Games

Collaboration to develop a VR Murder Mystery Thriller game. This includes plot, character and setting development, writing in script and spreadsheet format, creating puzzles, option trees, UI(UX) copywriting and character dialogue, and researching historical and visual references.

STORY ARTIST & ANIMATOR

Storyboard & Animatic Artist for multiple short films: B3 (2024), Hero’s Spirit (2024) and TV Dinner (2024). 2D Animator for mentioned short films and: The Fridge (2023) and Astray (2024). Keyframes, In-betweens, Clean Up & Compositing. Understanding pipelines across hybrid 2D & 3D short film production and Generalist skills.

SubRosa (2023) - Storyboard

SCOTART'S YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Awarded ScotArt’s Young Artist of the Year for Fife & worked with Underbelly in paid internship for Edinburgh's Hogmanay Celebration (2018/19).

EDUCATION

  • BA (Hons) Animation (2024) - University of Dundee
    First Class / Distinction

  • BA Visual Communication & Digital Publishing (2016) - Abertay University
    Upper Second Class / Merit

SHORT COURSES

  • Story and Narrative Development for Games (2024) and

  • Introduction to Game Design (2024) - California Institute of the Arts

  • Creative Writing (2024) - Wesleyan University

OTHER ROLES:

  • STORYBOARD & NARRATIVE DESIGN MENTEE (2023 - PRESENT) - Access: VFX

  • PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR & STORY ARTIST (2022 - 2023) - Dingle Sting

  • DESIGNER & COPYWRITER (2014 - 2019) - Freelance

  • RESEARCH ASSISTANT (2017 - 2018) - Participatory Action Research

SCHOLARSHIPS:

  • Ian Rankin Writing Scholarship (2020)

  • Friends of Kirkcaldy Galleries Scholarship (2020)

  • Jack Vettriano Art Scholarship (2018)

CONTACT ME

Feel free to get in touch about projects, roles or just to say hi. Any emails should be responded to promptly.

Just fill in the contact form or connect via Linked-In:

Mary Alexandra Mayo (2024)