I posted a
write-up last January about Rory's career (or whatever tattered remains of it were left), and surly graveyard keeper that I am, I took another look this year - there's been some activity on her LinkedIn. She lives! Left is her current profile, right is a screenshot of her profile from last year.
(Unfortunately, archiving a LinkedIn page will always redirect to a log in page, rendering an archive link useless.)
Her new profile picture, which I'm guessing was drawn for her by someone else judging by the incongruity to her style and the fact that it's surrounded by hearts:
She changed her profile picture, added 34 connections, appended 'Prop Designer' to her job title, and replaced 'Storyboard Artist' with '2D Animator' in general. Despite this, her full Open to Work profile doesn't include 2D Animator as a job title, although it does include Prop Designer and has removed Storyboard Artist.
Again, left is current, right is a screenshot from last year. Interestingly, she removed 'Contract' from job types.
She has the same 5 skills listed as she did before, and added TikTok under the companies section for Interests.
The 2022 Freak Scene Film Festival mentioned above was, in fact, just a showing of Tchoupitoulas Street - you can see a glimpse of it in
this trailer.
I searched high and low for other production credits aside from the
GOGO-NO-KOCHA tea commercial, and actually found two others: the first is linked on
this guy's personal website, a 15-second long commercial for Traditional Medicinals, published September 9th, 2021.
Some of the same cleanup artists from this one worked on the tea commercial's production as well, like Hyo Bin Kang and Ty Enos. The animation credits from the tea commercial:
The second I found by searching "Rory Dise Hornet" - she's credited for
"Browndages - Google + International Small Business Week" alongside other cleanup artists (including Ty and Hyo Bin), published June 25th, 2021.
It looks like she was briefly contracted by production studio Hornet - the Google ad was published June 25th, the tea commercial was published to Vimeo on September 6th, and the Traditional Medicinals commercial was published to YouTube on September 9th. They didn't hire her on after her brief stint, however, which by the timing I'm assuming was a summer internship - her fellow cleanup artist, Hyo Bin Kang, was hired on full-time for Hornet that same year.
This is what I presume she signed up for:
They weren't waiting for certain hiring seasons to onboard her either, because it's been a full year and no additional works have come out with her name attached.
As far as I can tell, she had zero publications to her name for the year of 2022.
There are some interesting things we can divine from this: 1. She isn't using an alias for industry work, and 2. She picked up prop design from somewhere - local theater? Student films? However she picked it up, she's already more confident in putting it as her job title over what she learned at CalArts over the course of 4 years.
Still, this is a pretty far cry from what you'd expect from a CalArts student - her only non-school experience as we know it is one internship as a cleanup artist. Imagine peaking in high school drawing bimbo trans Captain America. I think I'd shoot myself.
Happy 2023, Rory!
