Christen works as a creative director, producer, animator, and editor.

Her animated TV credits include Nick Jr's "The Wonder Pets!" and "Team Umizoomi," and Cartoon Network's "MAD." Her clients have included A&E, Audible, Hornet, Digg, Pilobolus, Animated Storyboards, 321 Launch, and Fireshot Productions, and she has edited countless commercials, short films, and short form editorial content for broadcast, pre-viz, and digital platforms. Recently, Christen was the motion-capture animation producer for a CG animated TV pilot, and the 2D animation producer for a PBS documentary series (upcoming 2025).

Here are some of her commissioned editorial work as a Creative Director.

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Signs of Life

Creative leadership & development.

Role: Creative Director
Date: 2020
Editors in Chief: Alicia Hosking, Beth Litwak & Jodie Toresdahl.
Produced for Church of the City New York.
Url: https://medium.com/signs-of-life

A editorial series of 20 photo essays created during the height of the Covid-19 lockdown when New York City was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.

In the Shadow of God

Promotional film series.

Title: Promos for Imago Dei
Role: Creative Director, storyboards, editor.
Date: 2020
Produced for Church of the City New York.
Collaborators: Dustin Ceithamer, Isaac Gay, Benjamin Griffiths.
Camera: Ramuel Galarza.
Url: Video playlist.

What Would Happen If

The anti-explainer video series, interrogating viral internet content while taking scientific speculation to its absurdist, metaphorical end.

Title: What Would Happen If
Role: Creative director, screenwriter, set designer, prop fabricator, editor.
Date: 2016-2018
Description: A written and video editorial series published on digg.com. Produced for Digg Originals.
Co-creator, writer: Steve Rousseau.
Url: Playlist.
Clip reel from What Would Happen If  [Video series]. Directed by Christen Smith. 2017-2018. digg.com