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Meet the Team!

Samuel Densmore

Writer and director of The Littlest Snail, Sam is a 2D animator and illustrator based out of Portland, Oregon.

Agnes Zahina

Producer and Sound. Experimental animator and video artist.

Kobey Bonin

Editor. Kobey's work tends toward printmaking, illustration and trying as many new things as possible .

Shyann Bursey

A member of the character design team and animator of The Littlest Snail. I have an Associates degree in Studio Arts. I consider myself a 2D animator, illustrator, and overall just a gal who enjoys fun arts and crafts.

Tania Bejarano Estrada

Animator, character designer, and musician on The Littlest Snail. Based in Portland Oregon. Besides character design, She loves drawing food and pastries above all else!

Arker Gilbert

Animator and designer on The Littlest Snail. Indie Game Dev that works in psychological horror.

Piper Haswell

Animator, Character Designer, and Voice of the Dandelion on The Littlest Snail. Mainly a Stop-Motion animator and puppet fabricator. If she was a bug, she’d like to be a bumblebee.

Sydney Haswell

Animator and Designer on The Littlest Snail. Multipurpose 2D & 3D digital artist. If he was a bug, he'd like to be a weevil.

Gigi A. Cirilo Romero

Character designer and animator on The Littlest Snail. 2D digital artist/illustrator. Focus is post production work.

Maze Goerlitz

Storyboarder and animator on The Littlest Snail production. Maze’s work ranges from surreal morphing loops to elaborate concept art for animation and live action film.

Christopher Hildreth

Editor, animator, and story boarder. I have a keen love for the timings, and weight of animation. All of that high school theatre is really paying off, huh.

Mya Katz

Storyboarder, animator, shader...er, and the voice of Pid on The Littlest Snail. I made the website you're looking at!

Montse Mejia Sanchez

Undergraduate of animation with a minor in stop motion; I’m a storyboarder, stop motion animator, concept artist and puppet fabricator. I’m apart of the story boarding and animation team, I rough-boarded the first two scenes and rough-animated on the third scene. I’m friendly, adore dogs and watch anime on my free day along with hang out with friends when I can.

Sam MacInnis

Animator, Illustrator, Storyboard artist. On the background design team for The Littlest Snail.

Daisey Pastrana

Daisey Pastrana was born in 1998 in Oregon. In 2024, she will receive her BFA in Animated Arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art and Willamette University. She choses to tell stories and deliver a message to the audience through paintings, drawings, and 2D animation. She focuses on working traditionally and digitally for her animations. Her specialized mediums are watercolor with ink and colored pencil for her illustrations. How ever you define her she'll be making art in what every way it presents it's self. Her position for The Littlest Snail was post production, revising compositions, and coloring backgrounds.

Natalie Scott

Animator, illustrator and designer. Born and based in Portland OR. When she’s not creating art she cooking and pretending to be a master chef.

Marilyn Zornado

Executive Producer. As Visiting Faculty at PNCA, Marilyn is the instructor of the Collaborative Production Class AA335 that created "The Littlest Snail" from start to finish in one semester. Marilyn's professional background is as an animation producer for commercials. She currently does motion graphics for documentaries and creates her own short films. Marilyn has a MFA in Computer Animation and is a member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Oso Zornado

At three years old, Oso is the youngest member of "The Littlest Snail" team. His past credits include:

  • Mascot on the PNCA animated short "Wizard Frogs."
  • Principal dancer in the short animated film "The Battle for Swan Lake" by Academy Award Winning Director Joan C. Gratz.
  • He had a non-speaking role in the 2023 feature documentary "History, Mystery and Odyssey: Six Portland Animators" directed by Martin Cooper.
  • Oso enjoys agility classes and chasing small stuffed toys.