Character Designer | Animation | Comic Illustrator
Works
Character Design
Props and environments
Animation
Illustrations
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 and Editorial Work: CLICK HERE
Illustration
Style test
Snoopy in the Rain
Alberto Mielgo Spider-verse study
Red Dead Unicorn Centaur Arthur Morgan (Artfight)
Mint Dragon (Artfight)
Brown Weavers (Artfight)
Blue Spider (Artfight)
Pink Widows (Artfight)
Bianca (Artfight)
Scene
sketches
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
Filmography
Frog and Fish (April 2025):
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.Animated in both TvPaint and ToonBoom Harmony.
Queen (May 2024):
My first ever finished animation, about an alien queen getting ready for a show.Animated in TvPaint
Spidersona (August 2023):Looped animation of my spidersona in DetroitAnimated in Clip Studio Paint
Props and Environments
Overview
Projects
Raccoons Love Cake
A story about Bowey the Raccoon baking a cake
Alien Planets
Various environments from different alien planets
Raccoons Love Cake: Bowey's Kitchen
Bowey the Raccoon's kitchen from Raccoons Love Cake
Character Design
Overview
Alien Creatures
Different beasts from alien planets: Planet Lumina, Planet Ikatis, and Planet Jiabba
Laramie the Cowboy
Laramie is an alien who dresses like a Cowboy pulled from the classic western era of television
Doina and Death
A small girl befriends Death, who takes the form of a cow
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
