About

Lily Simatupang is an Australian artist based in Melbourne working as a professional animator in the animation industry with a Bachelor of Design: Animation and Interactive Media from RMIT. With a love for 2D hand drawn animation, its characters, worlds and the nuanced storytelling it could convey.

Lily has a range of professional experience in both 2D rigged (cut-out) animation and 2D hand drawn (frame-by-frame) animation. At Princess Bento on projects including two seasons of a 2D rigged show, Universal Basic Guys as a cutout animator. Using Toon Boom Harmony she created punchy and comedic character acting with accurate lip sync, often working on shots with more dynamic movement. She has also worked as a retake animator for a 2D hand drawn show where she reanimated shots from rough pass to cleanup in addition to fixing technical issues in Toon Boom Harmony. Lily currently works at LeeBones Studio as a storyboard placement building her skills in acting, posing and storytelling through revisionist work.

 

Lily is also co-creating an online webseries, Vampire Dearest, a dark fantasy anime miniseries. For this project Lily animates detailed with lifelike movement to portray more subtle character acting. 

Heavily influenced by narrative dense video games with a strong focus on character interaction, themes of self reflection and our connections to those around us often appear in her work.

Lily is also active in the animation community. She regularly volunteers her illustration and design work for WIA events such as the WIA MIAF events and was a part of the executive committee of the WeAniamte Club since its founding in 2022, facilitating opportunities such as guest speaker events, social events and workshops that help build a community for student and graduate animators in Australia.