Alex Cubbon is MermaidTV’s Lead Technical Artist. She graduated from Dalhousie University in 2016 with an honours degree in Theatre (Acting) and began her professional career as a puppeteer with Mermaid Theatre in 2017. In 2020, she joined the MermaidTV team and assisted in the creation of over 50-episodes of digital content for the MermaidTV platform. Alex’s extensive expertise of the Adobe Creative Design Suite, including software programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Character Animator are vital to the continued creation of Mermaid’s digital products. With her experience as a storytelling theatre artist and puppeteer, she helps drive animation narratives, develops layouts and backgrounds for animated worlds, and utilizes motion capture and lip-sync technology for creating life-like character dialogue.

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