Mart Smooth was born in England but has lived in nine different countries and seven US states. Her love of storytelling and art has found its way through illustration, animation and writing. Mart graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 with a BFA in film/animation/video and is currently working on an MFA in Visual Narrative at the School of Visual Arts. She has additionally studied at Brown University and Kyoto Seika University in Japan. She is a former intern at Nickelodeon on Spongebob Squarepants. Post undergrad, she traveled around Europe as a commercial artist and assistant art director for the company Stoke Travel and more recently concluded four years in Tokyo as an English teacher and freelance animator.