Dana Terrace graduated this spring from the animation program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She moved to Los Angeles where she was recently hired to do storyboard revisions on the Disney Channel TV series Gravity Falls.
Here is Dana’s 3rd year student film, Kickball! (featured last year on Cartoon Brew), completed at SVA in roughly eight weeks start to finish, according to the description on Vimeo:
Here are some character studies from Mirage, Dana’s thesis film co-created with Iker Maidagan, which was also recently featured on Cartoon Brew:
You can explore more artwork from Dana on her blog and portfolio website.
Mirage was among the most outstanding thesis films from the 2013 class of the School of Visual Arts. It’s about a young Inuit boy and his dog who go out into the bleak Arctic wilderness to fish, only to discover strange happenings lurking beneath the frozen waters.
The film was a joint effort between Iker Maidagan, who came up with the story and did the layouts, and Dana Terrace, who designed and animated the characters. Working as a team, they were able to focus on their artistic strengths and apply them to a single project. Everything, from story concept to animation to final compositing, and all the steps in-between, are flawlessly executed.
Knowing both Iker and Dana personally from my time attending SVA, I can say that they both have a very strong understanding of the process, not just as animators, but as filmmakers and storytellers. I don’t think I have ever seen a student film that feels as complete and polished as a studio-produced short, but this one certainly comes close, if not surpassing it.
Kickball is a third-year film made by Dana Terrace at the School of the Visual Arts. The highlight of Dana’s film is the animation: it’s lots of fun to watch, with fantastic control over shapes and design, and expressive motion that brings out the personalities of the characters.
(Thanks, Killigan)
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