Jocelyn Saravia

**Jocelyn Saravia**, known online as Moose or Moose\_\_Chan, is the creator of Corrupted Memories and founder of Moving Hands Productions. They're an deaf Mexican-Guatemalan American storyboard artist, animator, comic creator, blogger. They're currently known for their voiceover and story in Storybooth's "Deaf in Hearing World" which it currently has around 7 million views.

Jocelyn also runs "Jocelyn's Art Bulletin" blog featuring many interviews of indie projects and studios.

They identify as nonbinary transgender, using they/them as their pronouns.

## Early Life

Jocelyn says that they grew up watching 2000s cartoons such as Kim Possible and Super Monkey Hyper Force Go. Knowing they will become artist, they delved into the art world. Around 2010s, Jocelyn watched "Paperman" short film by John Kahrs, and was driven to animation industry for their love of the animation workers. In 2019, Jocelyn graduated high school and proceeded to attend Gallaudet University, majoring in Art and Media Design, B.A. Jocelyn is close with Matthew and Sahej, both being writers on Corrupted Memories. It appears their friendship began around that year.

Jocelyn was sent home due to COVID-19 pandemic from their university in 2020. That was when of the announcement of "Road of Friendship" which it was the original story of Corrupted Memories. Not much is known about their production during that time. Later on, Jocelyn announced that they will be cancelling the "Road of Friendship" story to produce the "better story" which it is now Corrupted Memories. In 2022, Corrupted Memories was announced. Jocelyn says that Corrupted Memories is very dear to their heart due to the personal experience being shared in this show. In 2023, they founded Moving Hands Productions.

Jocelyn has some notable health issues such as hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD), unexplained chest pains, chronic pains, and fatigue, and they're also neurodivergent (PSTD and DPDR). Jocelyn is an avid supporter of masking and safer environment due of the risk of COVID-19, mostly due to their poor health.

## Career

Jocelyn has experience developing video games at the young age at middle school. They created the pixel escape game based in school. It's unknown where the game has gone, as Jocelyn mentioned having a old game disc that their teacher assistant gave them of their game.

Jocelyn also shares on their twitter that they did the voice over on their story in Youtube's Storybooth: "Deaf in Hearing World" and confirms it's the first and last time they will do the voice talent. The video gathered almost 7 million views as of 2023. It appears they were 16 years old when they did the voice talent.

Jocelyn began their artistic career working for ASLConnect as the student digital media assistant while as a first year college student before COVID-19 pandemic. But it appears they left the company around 2021.

They started working on Corrupted Memories project during COVID-19 pandemic. Eventually, they started interning as a storyboard artist at Signing Animation in summer of 2022. During fall of 2022, Jocelyn began their work at Boldbird Studios on the Blink and Brute team immediately after their internship with Signing Animation. But in early 2023, they resigned immediately due to the allegations and document relating to Boldbird Studios.

After leaving Boldbird Studios, Jocelyn found their employment again in Signing Animation as the freelance storyboard artist and credit artist. During their employment, they also worked on running the blog on their portfolio website featuring indie animation and studios.

Jocelyn also had consulted on few indie productions focusing on the Deaf/Hard of Hearing characters. Jocelyn is an avid fan of indie projects as Endermoon's "Indigo", Studio Heartbreak's "The Lovers", and etc.

## Trivia

* They're currently dating their partner in long distance.
* Jocelyn absolutely dislikes bees due to their extreme phobia.
* They were on Bloop and Friends, Blink and the Brute, and few unknown indie productions.
* Jocelyn's the huge advocate for having captions on indie animation, due to the minimal accessibility with the disabled creatives.
* They're a huge fan of The Owl House and Dana Terrance's art.
* Jocelyn frequently travels to DC, in reply of the tweet.
* According to Jocelyn's twitter, they speak English, American Sign Language, Spanish, and Dutch
* Jocelyn was a guest artist on Marie Lum's 24 hours stream marathon to promote Pen Pals Forever
* They're a fan of Spy x Family, especially Anya and Yor.
* Jocelyn is an avid cat lover, mentioning they will "cry if a cat is on their lap"
* Their favorite color is purple.
* They had Amulet graphic novel collection up to Prince of Elves when they were a young kid.
* In their "Meet the Artist" video, their height is 5'2''
* Their favorite foods are poke, pho, sushi, tacos, and ramen
* Their favorite drink is boba tea
* Jocelyn has tried to apply to the local arts high school but failed because they lacked knowledge how to use charcoals.
* They had performed a sold-out live performance program and appeared on a PBS documentary.
* Jocelyn is a theatre kid.

## Links

Jocelyn's Twitter

Jocelyn's IMDB

Jocelyn's Instagram

Jocelyn's Portfolio

Storybooth's Deaf in Hearing World