Works
About
Greetings! My name is Lisa Balasa
I am a Romanian-American artist based in Detroit, Michigan.
Currently, I'm working towards a BFA in Animation at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, and I like to create stories.Also, I enjoy dinosaurs, aliens, Spiderman, linguistics, history, cowboys, and all things pizza.

Published Work
Published Work
Featured pages:
"C4 Anthology"
Cover page and pgs 31-35
2024"Huron River Review 22"
Cover page and pgs 13-17
2023"HerStory"
Cover page and pgs 4-5
2023"Huron River Review 21"
Cover page and pgs 20-27
2022
Self Published Works:
"Jared and Oliver: Celebrate Christmas"
2024"Skeleman Adventures: 001"
2024"Jared and Oliver: Go All Out"
2024"Wild Aces"
2025
Works with "Dragon Miracles"
pen name:"Tankmas"
pg 1-2
pg 18-19 "Steve Route"
2024"Rattle the Stars"
pg 83-84
2023"Summer Festival"
pg 32, 42, 70
2023"Three of a Kind"
pg 66
2023
Illustration
Storyboards
Mash-up Boards
For these boards, I was assigned the task of boarding two sequences with the goal of them being a mash up of a pre-existing script and pre-existing characters from very different stories to create a mash-up board.
An additional part of the project was to not watch the original media the script is derived from as to form our own ideas based on the scripts.The following boards were a mash up of Xena and Korra
Boards for Comics
For this board, I was assigned the task of boarding a section of a "Choose your own adventure" style comic. The boards are a combination of roughs and clean boards. The red was to allow the script to still be visible on our pages as that was the director's request.
Animation
DEMO REEL
Breakdown:
00:04 Spider in Detroit
00:07 Frog and Fish
00:11 Jared and Oliver (progress shot)
00:12 What's This? (Round Robin Clip)
00:14 Crawl Out
00:17 Queen
00:23 Frog and Fish
00:26 Omlet
00:27 Intro / Outro for Demoreel
Frog and Fish:
A film made in collaboration with Felix McKenna and Reese Carver.
I wrote the music, did all compositing, designed all the characters, boarded the final 3 scenes, as well as animated them. Did clean up for 1st scene and 5th scene.
Queen:
My first ever finished animation, about an alien queen getting ready for a show.
Spidersona:Looped animation of my spidersona in detroit
Character Design
Laramie the Cowboy
Laramie is an alien who dresses like a Cowboy pulled from the classic western era of television
Frog and Fish
Frog and Fish are penpals, and one day Frog loses his mail!
Jared and Oliver: Go All Out
Jared and Oliver kidnap Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds to impress a girl they like.
Princess (WIP Title)
Concept for an evil Princess and some towns people/nobles