We’re super excited to welcome Jennifer Sanchez to the family as our staff animator.

Jen has a love and passion for anything art and animation related. She finds beauty in simple everyday things and tries to incorporate that beauty into her own artwork. Her love of food and cooking has no bounds, which isn’t that surprising considering the fact that she practically grew up in her parent’s bakery in East Boston.

Jen holds a BFA in Animation and a minor in Storyboarding from Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time at SCAD she worked on a total of thirteen senior films. Several of them have already debuted in film festivals around the country. You can check out her senior film right here, which will be screening at the Blue Plum Animation Festival in September!

Papi's Bakery from Jen Sanchez on Vimeo.

Claire is a rising senior at Hamilton College with a double major in economics and art, with a focus in oil painting and animation. She just returned from a semester abroad at Tyler School of Art in Rome where she studied Italian, fresco painting, and figure modeling. She is excited to transition from the classical to the digital art world at Planet Nutshell this summer.

When she isn’t at Hamilton, Claire works as a children’s figure skating coach at the Skating Club at Dartmouth, and as an art teacher at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is a Vermont native, and often goes on backpacking and backcountry skiing adventures in the Green and White Mountains in her free time. She can also often be found on the water, between training with Hamilton’s rowing team and ocean sailing in the coastal waters of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.