About Me
I am a 25 year old comic artist and 2D/3D animator. I have been a digital artist for 10+ years. I go by the moniker Atomic Jellycat for my creative works.
I am currently working on my Sci-Fi/Comedy webcomic- The Miraculous Living Machines, hosted on Webtoons, started in 2017, and went live in 2022. It is currently 300+ pages, with over 36k views, and a small but loyal following. It is about a third of the way complete, and I am looking to move onto physical published copies of the works once completed.
I received my Advanced 3D-Character Animation Degree in 2021, and started interning as a video game animator shortly after.
I am an US American Citizen, currently living in Northern Norway, and have lived there since April of 2023, but my husband and I are looking to move back to America if a good job opportunity presents itself.
I speak English fluently as a native speaker, and I speak some Norwegian.
I love incredibly difficult games, and I adore creative writing. My personal interests are any and all types of rock music (especially punk rock), rouge-likes, deck builders, Pokemon, motorcycles, indie animation, agility dog training (I have a stellar Border Collie named Kiba), playing long runs of Risk of Rain 2, and I’m a relatively decent Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari) speedrunner, its my favorite game of all time. I also play electric gutair (badly). I love neon on black pixel art, I made this entire website and all the art myself.
While I have 1001 interests, most of my time is spent making comics. I feel like I start to lose my mind if I go too long without doing something creatively fulfilling like drawing or animating, I’m a bit of a workaholic (NOT an addiction, I can quit at any time.) I just love making good art I can feel proud of. It’s what motivates me in everything I do.
My biggest dream is to one day write and direct an animated show. This has been my ultimate ambition since I was a little kid, and what inspired me to pick up that pencil in the first place. I love making compelling narratives with complex characters in an interesting world, and one day I’d love to work with a studio to make it happen.
About The Miraculous Living Machines
Mari Stottlemeyer, child of a wanted conman, was on the run again. However, this time was different. The will of her estranged Uncle found them, and she has inherited his legacy: 6 living robots in a giant mechanical manor, tucked in the dark cold town of Arcane Reach, where the rain never stops. While her father tries to spin this into a get-rich-quick scheme, Mari and her new mechanical cousins start to unravel their family’s dark history and the mystery surrounding her uncle’s untimely death.
-Original Comic Description, Webtoons
My Webcomic, The Miraculous Living Machines started off as an experiment to see if I could create my own animated show. I planned for 23 episodes of the original run, and spent 5 years writing, designing, and story-boarding those episodes. However, as one does, I began to realize creating a whole animated show with just myself seemed to be a bit impossible. And after a good long mope over my wasted efforts and years down the drain, I began pushing it into a new direction at the suggestion of my husband- A webcomic.
And so I began bringing it to life, and quickly noting significant artistic improvement along the way. The Miraculous Living Machines began to take shape in ways I couldn’t imagine possible. And through many personal hardships, unemployment, family tragedies, technical failures, and personal doubt, I persevered through it all, and now it stands at over 300 pages, 10 completed chapters, and 36k+ views on Webtoons.
But, the show is far from over. In December of 2024 I began the longest hiatus the series would face. Finding myself unsatisfied with the current writing, I paused all new installments of Living Machines after Chapter 10 until I had completely rewritten the entire story. The original scripts were all over 7 years old. And they all needed to be overhauled. So over the course of 5 months I rewrote the future chapters, cleaned up the story, redefined character arcs, and re-polished and finished the planned scripts for the webcomic.
Sitting comfortably at 33 planned chapters, with dialog and direction that felt satisfying to the narrative, I began drawing and uploading pages at their usual schedule again (1 new page every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) beginning June 1st, 2025. And as it stands currently I’m projecting the comic to have an ongoing run of about 5 more years, if my schedule holds the same. However, I am actively looking for paying work, so do not hesitate to contact me.
Check out my AJC UPDATES page for chapter updates as they come.