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Keira Ryan

Storyboarding - Animation - Visual Development

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Hi I'm Keira Ryan, known online as Kikiotic, or just Kiki for short.I'm a passionate concept artist, animator, and storyboard artist from Meanjin (Brisbane). Graduating from Griffith Film School with a Bachelor's in Animation and a major in Art Direction, I am committed towards making ideas a reality.
Given the opportunity to direct one of Griffith's graduate films, "Clustomer Service" (2025), where I got to lead not only as Director, but as Art Directior, Animation Director, Head Storyboard artist, and much more!My skills are versatile yet detail-oriented, I love visual storytelling, collaborating, and using animation to its fullest creative potential. I aspire to work and learn within Australia's animation industry as it has inspired my journey.

Show Reel 2025

Short Film Director 2025: 'Clustomer Service'

Griffith Film School 2025 animated short, a surrealist, sardonic, sarcastic comedy with horror undertones, about a newbie's first day at her hellish minimum wage job.

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Horror-Concept portfolio

ARG Assignment Visual Development: "Eurydice.Gov"

Personal Illustrations/Development

Animation

After Effects

Hand-drawn

Puppet

Autodesk Maya

3D Animation

Showreel_2025

After Effects

Craig and Karl Rear Vision exhibition - "Matey's"

A collaboration between the Visual Artist Duo, Craig and Karl, alongside the Griffith University Art Museum for the Brisbane City Council's exhibition "Craig and Karl : Rear vision".

Winton Vision Splendid Film Fest 2024

Winton Vision Splendid Film Fest 2024
Griffith University Outback Bootcamp course.

Clustomer Service Short Film - Compositing

Toonboom Hand-drawn

Rough Animation Show Reel

Customer Service Short Film - Animation

Puppet Animation

Toon boom rig mechanics excersze (rig belongs to Kyu-Bum Lee)

Moho 12 animation software experiment, short film proof of concept trailer (not related to Clustomer Service Griffith Grad film)

Concept Design

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Art Direction

Personal work for Griffith University Short: Clustomer Service

Environments

Characters

Visual Development

Tasked with developing three distinct packages for a public domain story: Island of Dr Moreau. Click on the image to find out more.

2D puppet animation concept, educational stories for kids 5-12 years olds.

Visual developement: Visual novel concept for teens and horror fans.

Visual development: Political Drama adapted from the Island of Dr Moreau, aiming to utilise the themes of the book to play into an alternative
story idea.

Storyboards

Personal work for Griffith University Short: Clustomer Service

Click on the boards to access the Story Boards PDF!

Clustomer Service: PROOF OF CONCEPT

Clustomer Service (2025)

Director, Storyboard Lead, Art Director, Animation Director

Hybrid Animated short film, Griffith Film School

Customer Service is a short I directed from conception to final product, including serving as the lead on much of the process whilst learning new skills. These rolls required me to manage not only my time effectively, but also other people's time. I also worked professionally to foster healthy communication between team members.I've developed abilities to work within a professional pipeline to direct a creative vision and provide feedback. Alongside developing the concept, script, storyboards, animmatic, animations, 3D textures, and comp work. I spread myself throughout this film to learn not only about the pipeline but to learn how to work in a large creative team.

Poster design by Keira Ryan

Animatic and Storyboards

Click on the boards to access the Story Boards PDF!

Animation

Texturing - Procreate to Autodesk Maya

Direction - animation draw-overs

Illustration

Studies

About me

Character Design - Ramona

University concept development assignment. Being tasked with designing characters for a theoretical production, "Intertwined" is a 2D animated dark fantasy show about cursed people and hunting demons.Ramona is the protagonist, and a toughened heart of gold. Being a cursed demon hunter, she is no stranger to isolation. However, after finding an abandoned child in the woods, the two form an unlikely bond in their dangerous world.

Development

Character Design - Silvie

University concept development assignment. Being tasked with designing characters for a theoretical production, "Intertwined" is a 2D animated dark fantasy show about cursed people and hunting demons.Silvie is the deuteragonist, a strange, meek child who doesn't have much to say, but can still give you her piece of mind none-the-less. A cursed child found in the snow by Ramona, she is taken under her wing.

development

University work

Development

The Concrete Valley - Exterior

exterior - development

The Concrete Valley - Exterior

Interior - development