Milena Gonçalez has 8 years of experience as a 2D FX artist in television animation.

I never knew I was going to end up in animation, but thanks to a teacher who saw my love for illustration got me to join her class, I get to do what I love for the rest of my life. I have worked on the Hulu Animated series Solar Opposites and am now working full time as a digital designer, getting to create animations for Volvo and Logitech. I adore the freedom of bringing anything our minds can imagine to life and creating depth to our worlds and characters. And I would never change that for anything in the world.

My journey in animation started as a stop motion artist, focusing mainly on artistic projects working with paper cut outs and puppets. After a slow transition to the digital medium and years of migrating between animation softwares as a hobbyist I've finally made the leap to Toon Boom. That marked the beginning of my professional career and I'm now working internationally as a freelancer, both as a rigger and character animator for TV serieses. I try, whenever possible, to keep producing personal projects, to keep some sanity going in a very demanding industry.