Desirae is a Vancouver-based story artist, and the writer and director of the 2021 award-winning animated short film The Fall, which has won multiple international awards and is currently streaming on CBC Gem’s “Canadian Reflections” program - a collection of acclaimed independent Canadian short films.

She has worked as Story Supervisor and Head of Story on projects such as LEGO/Pixar’s Bricktoons and Disney’s Zombies: The Re-animated Series, and has created storyboards for the upcoming animated feature adaptation of Animal Farm directed by Andy Serkis, The Willoughbys directed by Kris Pearn, and is currently working as a storyboard artist for an unannounced original feature at Sony Pictures Animation.

Comments from colleagues and directors include:

“Genuinely funny.”

“How does she know literally everything about Storyboard Pro?”

“Hey Des, they need you for scratch.”