About Me
Hey there! My name is Naomi, better known online as Cat or CatBolt.
I’m a Christian 20-something artist with a passion for storytelling & characters. I love designing characters with complex backstories and then putting them in Situations™. People will tell you I’m obsessed with robots, and I’m here to tell you… uhhm… they may be right. You know what, why don’t you take a look around and decide for yourself?
What I do
um. mostly art, really
Storyboarding
I really love the process of laying down the foundations of a story, the bare minimum required to convey what’s happening without all the hassle of drawing backgrounds or picking colours. Just me, my characters and the music; together, anything is possible.
Animation
I have what you might call a love-hate relationship with animation. I love bringing movements to life, but it’s so easy to get lost in the details and spend forever on an animation with a runtime of five seconds xD. I work primarily in Toon Boom Harmony and Procreate Dreams, but I’m always open to learn more!
Character Design
Designing and doodling characters is one of my favourite things to do, and almost second nature. I’ve found that I struggle to design characters that I had no hand in inventing, my preference being to work on the story as well as the design. However, I’m always up for a challenge, so if you need help giving a character shape hit me up!
Writing
I’m a storyteller at heart, and sometimes when art is too slow, I return to my roots and write instead. I’m currently in the process of writing a book, you can follow the process right here on the website! Many of the characters you see here are featured in it, so if you’re interested be sure to check out the Projects tab*.
*small disclaimer: the website is currently still under construction, so there may not *be* a Projects tab. If so, my apologies, its being worked on.
Why Me
This is a question I ask myself every day. Why me? Why couldn’t someone else have ended up in whatever precarious niche problem I’ve managed to spin myself into? I have no answer to this question that I can offer you, so instead I have a neat little percentage bar to the right here that tells you a bit of what you’ll find if you should choose to stick around. And who knows, it might even give some insight as to why it’s ME that’s always out of food wheneven I’m hungriest. Like seriously, what’s up with that? Doing groceries is hard.
STUDENT
82%
Competence
69%
OCs (original characters)
99%
have i mentioned robots?
3000%
chaos incarnate
infinity%
procrastination
100%
The team
I mean I don’t really have a “team”– I do all this chaos myself, it’s all authentic genuine CatBolt Madness. But uhh… if you’re looking for more cool people to check out, I can give you a hand for sure.
my friends <3
Lex / Blue Shampain
Co-founder of Green Magpie Games & colour expert supreme
FEMKE / _.stripez._
Co-founder of GMG, not to mention super friendly
Mona / Artinandwritin
HTTYD-expert with the most huggable OCs in the world
Nico / Starccifer
YELLOW AND PURPLE and the most stylish lines I know
cool people that inspire me
The person who inspired me to start animating
Kitty Cat & Manly Man has my heart, it’s a comfort comic of mine
Awesome animator who is in the process of making an indie film!
don’t tell anyone but my book was inspired by “The Horse & The Infant”