Melissa Xu Story Artist

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Hello! I'm Melissa Xu!

I'm a storyboard artist with 6 years of professional experience in TV and film.

My work includes Netflix's Hilda, particularly S3E8, winner of the Daytime Emmy's Best Animated Television/Media Production for Children's Audience. Other past projects include AppleTV+'s Goldie, and the viral Youtube horror shorts, The Worm + The Devil’s Rock.

Hope you consider me as an addition to your storyboard team!

Please contact me for my NDA portfolio.

Otherwise, Check out my work below!

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I was the sole storyboard artist for Emily Brundige's beautiful indie passion project, Strawberry Vampire 🍓🦇

Check out the animatic here! :)

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A Spider-Man fan-animatic.

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A fan-animatic of the book, Jade War/Green Bones Saga by Fonda Lee.

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A Muay-Thai animatic.

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A Wolverine fan-animatic.

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Storyboard I did for the viral short horror animated film, “The Worm” on Youtube.

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0:00-0:32: First sequence

0:34-4:21: Second sequence

4:21-5:05: Third sequence

Compilation of some of my work as a storyboard artist on Netflix’s Hilda And The Mountain King Feature Film. Side by side with the finished product.

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A goofy little scene I did for Goldie on AppleTV+.

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Another goofy little scene for Goldie.

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Storyboards for Interrupting Chicken on AppleTV+ 

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Storyboards for a song sequence for Interrupting Chicken on AppleTV+ 

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TW self-harm and gore

A personal micro-short film I made for the Ottawa Animation Show and Tell 2023

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A film I made for the Ottawa Animation Show and Tell 2024 with Rob Zilio.

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A frog in a Small Glass Tank Rotund body and gangly limbs Covered in an unforgiving slipperiness Pulled stubbornly by small stringy muscles Tiny heart does it’s best to keep it’s sand bag body flickering Helpless to the poking Helpless to the prodding, Helplessly blinking Large damp eyes -

An animation I did in StoryboardPro to depict the emotions I felt while I was in the hospital.

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“An Encounter”

A scene from a personal development story about two roommates in Toronto being followed by something strange. Made in Storyboard Pro

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An animation I made and screened at my older sister's wedding.