Kiana Mai Khansmith is a 27-year-old storyboard artist, director and character designer from Honolulu, Hawaii. She has worked at Disney Television Animation on “Big City Greens” full-time for 7 years. Her other work includes storyboarding for short series like “Pokémon: Path to the Peak” and the “Steven Universe Anti-Racism” PSAs as well various visdev character design jobs at other studios like Netflix and DreamWorks. Kiana is also well known in the online sphere, giving her the opportunity to do numerous podcasts, appear as a guest on several internet shows and even compete on Dropout TVs “Game Changer”.

Most recently, Kiana created her own, original animatic pilot called “Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl”. What started off as a storyboard, intended to be a portfolio piece, quickly became a professionally done animatic with well known anime voice actors and talented additional crew.