Despite having no tertiary training in animation and encountering frequent gender-role opposition in the industry, she still loved working in it and continued to pursue the profession.
She joined the Melbourne-based animation department built by the American company Fanfare Film and GTV9.
[citation needed] After five years at this local studio, she accumulated enough samples of her own work to try going back to London.
[citation needed] The meet-up resulted in her landing a place as an animator in Halas and Batchelor.
However, after several projects, she realized that she was receiving an unfair pay wage compared to her less-skilled male counterparts; which prompted her to leave the company and move on for secured work with Television Cartoons.
[citation needed] Jolliffe animated the character of Boob and was involved with the "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" sequence.
[citation needed] While technologies were replacing the traditional 2D hand-drawn animation in the 20th century, Jolliffe was not convinced that it could overshadow the craft completely.
Jolliffe suffered from gender inequality multiple times during her career as an Australian female animator.
Some of the animations produced by the studio placed a focus on female characters and women who held a significant place in history, for example, the series of biographies of unsung Australian women, The Tale of the Space Travelling Housewife, Bunyip, etc.