Ana María Mendicote
Director and animator
Spain
Co-director of Lullaby Aquarium, Ana Mendicote is a 24-year-old digital artist engaged in various fields of audiovisual pre-production, including character design art, storyboard and animatic development and 2D animation. She developed the short along with the rest of the team while completing her higher degree at U-Tad technical university.
The projects she has worked on include KAISA: Snow preshow, a short film that unfortunately was never publicly screened. Los Descendientes: La Boda Real (2021) was the first to see the light of day while she was still a student. Since graduating she has
launched her freelance career working for Rokyn Animation on the Pobre Diablo series (2022), and for Spindle Horse Toons on their indie series Helluva Boss, as well as becoming a storyboard assistant at Ánima Studios. She continues to work as a
freelance animator on European animation projects.