Ariel Chao

Production Coordinator in Montreal, QC, Canada

Ariel Chao

Production Coordinator in Montreal, QC, Canada

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Ariel fell in love with animation at a young age and her passion eventually became a career. While acquiring an art background in different fields including 3D animation for "Thomas the Tank Engine", she has over 10 years of administration/business management experience.

During her year at Vancouver Film School, she successfully produced multiple projects including a live action short film "Cheers to Death" for the award winning Compendium 8 series and an animated short film “Overboard” which has screened at numerous festivals and websites including "New York International Children's Film Festival", "Toronto Animation Arts Film Festival International", "Animation Block Party" and "Cartoon Brew."

Her experience at Bardel Entertainment includes the Nickelodeon productions "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Monsters v.s. Aliens" and the animated feature film "The Prophet." At industrial Light + Magic Vancouver her experience includes "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014", "Jurassic World 2015" and "Avengers 2 2015." At DHX Media on "My Little Pony the Movie" and at Titmouse Vancouver on the series "Home" for Netflix.

The once “excessively organized, wayward art student” used her arsenal of skill sets and years of experience to breathe life into her dream of owning her own business in 2017. As an avid collector of art toys and pop culture art and memorabilia; Soji was an accumulation of a lifetime’s worth of adoration, nostalgia, perserverance, laughter, geekery and creativity. After the block the boutique was on was expropriated by the government to build a new skytrain station, she is back in the animation/VFX industry and moved to Montreal to continue her career in production.