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Amaya (Stelladia) Diaz

Senior

Digital Illustration
Adobe Photoshop
Clip Studio Paint EX

I tell stories. I create worlds with beautiful colors, rich textures, interesting shapes and full of life characters. You're free to explore them, and I'm hoping to contribute to yours!

Biography

Hi! I tell stories. That's what I do and I am passionate about.

My name is Amaya, but I'm commonly known as Stelladia. I'm a Spanish storyboard artist and character designer for animation, with a parallel career as artist and colorist for comics. I feel both disciplines are deeply connected, and comics allow me to explore each part of production in visual storytelling. I also design and produce my own brand of illustrated merchandishing. Basically, I create characters, environments and find the best way to tell a story. I've been doing this for the last decade. Some of my past work on the comic industry includes coloring and drawing for publishers such as Disney Hyperion (Heartless Prince), Titan Publishing (Horizon Zero Dawn: Liberation #4), Vault Comics (Colossi, Submerged, Cult Classics), ComiXology Originals (Teenage Wasteland) or drawing the comic series POTIONS, Inc. for Mad Cave, along with many short stories on multiple anthologies, like the Ringo Award nominated Maybe Someday (Story: Ghost in the Apartment). On the animation side, I've worked providing storyboards, color scripts, coloring, clean up and concept for studios like Nucco Brain, ltd, Dragonbee Animation and Flickerpix. I'm particularly proud of the work I did as lead storyboard artist for the animated short film Johanne, which you can watch on youtube!

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Software

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Languages

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Work Experience

Present day

Merchandishing development, production and online shop management.

Stelladia Visual Storytelling
Production of my own brand of illustrated merchandishingfor my online shop, from visual design, to manufacturing management, traditional assembling, shipment management and marketing.

2024 – Present day

Mutimedia designer (video editor and content creator)

Campus SpainX (Madrid)

Mutimedia designer, including video editing and graphic content creation for a Vocational Training campus. 

2017 – Present day

Freelance Comic artist

Mad Cave / A Wave Blue World / Several Anthologies (Remote)

Art and colors combo for multiple projects, including casual script writing. Highlight: "Potions, inc" 5 issue series for Mad Cave, released on 2022. A new ONG at Maverick (Mad Cave) soon to be announced!

2016 – 2023

Freelance comic colorist

Disney Publishing / Titan Publishing / Amazon ComiXology/ Webtoon/ Vault Comics... (Remote)
Colorist for multiple comic book projects. Highlight: "Heartless Prince" OGN published by Disney Hyperion.

2021 – 2021

Freelance Art Director, animator, visual development artist and activity coordinator.

FECYT and University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid)
Character design, storyboarding, animation and video production for an educational story for children to promote education in values through patrimony conservation. Co-organizer of activity.

2016 – 2016

Background Artist (Freelance)

Flickerpix (Remote (UK))
Background design proposals for a stop motion film.

2015 – 2015

Lead - Storyboard artist

Dragonbee Animation (London)
Lead storyboarding for the 2D animated short film "Johanne". Assistance on creative brainstorming. Concept art support when necessary.

2015 – 2015

Freelance: clean up, coloring, character development assistance.

Nucco Brain (London)
Clean up and coloring for animation pitch bible. Character test for WINX tv show (designs and turn arounds) Clean up , inbetweens and coloring assistance for animated sequence on live action film.

Education

2023 – 2024

Professional Certificate on Multimedia Design

Campus FP

Multimedia Design for Publishing

Multimedia Design intensive professional certificate course including:
-Design for advertishing
-Book layout and graphic design

-Scriptwriting, storyboard development and production assistance tasks.

-Photography, video editing and motion graphics.

-Social media and Web content creation.

 

2014 – 2014

Intensive Course on Comic Creation

ESDIP

Comic

Studies on visual storytelling, sequential art and script writting for comics. Finished with the project "I think, therefore I am", which was later published by Revista Cthulu.

2011 – 2013

Private diploma on 2D and 3D Animation

ESDIP

Animation

3 years course on animation development, learning animation basics for 3D and 2D animation, storyboarding, character design, illustration and background development.

2011 – 2012

Workshop on Children Book Illustration

ESDIP

Illustration

Children Book Illustration course, including writing, character development and the nuances of storytelling for children.