Michelle Tran is an Edmonton, AB - based artist, and has studied animation, film production, art and design. She has a Bachelors of Fine Art with a major of Art and Design and a Graduate Degree in Computer Animation from Sheridan College.She works in many mediums but specifically, she focuses on animation for film and her design work is illustrative with an emphasis on story-telling. She strives for creative career pathways that allow her to express narratives through art and technology.Passionate about design and animation from a young age, she has been recognized for her contributions in the creative community. As her work has been displayed at the festivals, universities, and galleries. She has also gained recognition through awards during her academic and professional career. This includes the Alberta Media Arts Award and Best Animated Short for her film “Love at First Light” (2024).She is an enthusiastic heart with a versatile range of styles, ready to set her hands on as many new projects she can take. Her works have included game design, film animation, painting, illustration, sculpture, graphic design, and more to continually grow.

Digital Illustration Gallery

3D animation demo reel

2D animation demo reel

traditional art Gallery

Handmade art Gallery

DESIGN / VISUAL DEVELOPMENT

Piko: Pet App

worked as a motion and graphic designer under the company petolab to develope graphics, illustrations and animations for a lifestyle pet app along with all relevant marketing materials including video and still advertisements.

The foxtale game art direction

developed Trailer, Cutscenes and Art for the independent game; The Fox’s Tale by Hexahedron ++Larissa Mitchell | Writer | Producer
Ganesh Saraswat | Programmer | Lead Designer
Tina Do | Programmer | Supporting Artist
Charffy Wang | Programmer
Jack Shea | Programmer
Michelle Tran | Sound Design | Artist
Cindy (Xinyue) Chen | ArtistPlay game here

game trailer

cutscenes

Munchkin redesign

Conceptual Board Game Redesign for Munchkin by Steve Jackson Games (2022). focus on a bug theme with box, board, cards and character pieces designed by me.

Inuit Clothing Stamp Collection

Art and design assignment. designed a limited edition stamp collection inspired by traditional inuit items of clothing.

Moth Character Design

Moth Character Design for the 3d animated short film "Love at First Light" (2024). Originally planned to have a firefly character but transitioned into a singular Moth character. Designed with a painterly look in mind using handmade normal maps.

Dragon Girl Character Design

dragon-human hybrid character design project for sheridan computer animation assignment.

VIDEO AND FILM

Love at First Light

Sheridan Computer Animation graduate program capstone project. models, textures, animation done all by me.Recipient of "best animated film" and "first place film" at the 2024 gotta minute short film festival presented by the film and video arts society of alberta.music: daniel tran
Special thanks: Douglas Smith, rob gennings, jesse lickman, sangho lee, kathryn sehrle, stephen sayer

LIGHTS

A film about death, smoking, peer pressure, and the changing of times. A girl has a fear of smoking gets lost in her fears and anxiety while at a party but comes to a reassuring realization of finding support in your friends.Recipient of the "Alberta Media Arts award" presented by the Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta for the 2020 Gotta Minute Film Festival.Soundtrack: Roughshod by Social Spiders

Demon Girl Bumper

Animation Project for Sheridan Computer Animation. Models, Animation, Textures, by michelle tran.

zoo otters bumper

Team Alberta's 2018 submission for the Skills Canada Trades and Technology Competition in the category of 2d animation (high school) at the national level. Placed 4th placed nation-wide.

Toy Ride Commercial

The goal of this design course self-directed project was to create a short, 40 second, animated commercial for a hypothetical toy store that will advertise products for children without relying on stereotypes as an example that genderless marketing.

Free Puppies 6:59AM

Short 2D Animated Film About A Dog And A Boy. Initially started as a project for work (piko: pet app advertisement), became scrapped and repurposed as an independent short film.Was selected for edmonton short film festival 2025.