At Waterford.org our team of artists collaborates with our Development and Curriculum teams to deliver high-quality learning content for PreK-6th grade students, emphasizing PreK-2nd grade early literacy development. Our team ensures that the resulting experience is engaging for young learners.
Meet the Team
MELINDA DAVIDSON - Senior Digital Artist
Melinda Davidson is an Art Director, Character Designer & Storyboard Artist based in Sandy, UT with 18+ years of experience in the art/animation industry.
Career highlights include: WB Games/Avalanche, Nickelodeon, 20th Century FOX, Marvel Animation, HUB Network, and Waterford.org. Her goal is to create stories and characters that audiences can connect with while maintaining an appealing, timeless, and aesthetic sense of design. Aside from creating art, she loves movies, anime, D&D, working on old cars, photography, gardening, drinking coffee, and spending time with her cat and family.
RACHEL HOWELL - Digital Artist
A native of Utah, Rachel is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a BFA in Animation. Her passion for art lies mainly in background design and paint, with a sprinkle of animation, character design, and some dabbling in 3D graphics. When she is not making art, Rachel does nature/still-life photography when she can and is always learning some new craft or hobby. She loves to travel and visit museums, aquariums, and planetariums. She is an avid binge watcher and media consumer, gardener, amateur chef, and dog lover.
JR CHAMBERS - Digital Artist
JR is a designer, illustrator, and animator with over 4 years experience working as an artist professionally. He works mostly in the Adobe suite, and has experience animating in Maya, Blender, Toonboom Harmony/Storyboard Pro, and Moho. He has a broad knowledge of the entire animation pipeline, and his specialties include background design/paint, illustration and character design.
Brooke Scott - Motion Graphics Designer
A Motion Graphics artist based in Florida, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Motion Design from Ringling College of Art & Design. She spends time learning and upgrading her skill sets, including surfing social media for the latest of tricks and tools from other professionals in the industry. In her downtime, she considers herself a master baker, volunteer, digital nomad, ultimate Disney World tour guide, animal lady and amateur photographer.
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