Works

Character Design
Creature Design
Animation
Illustrations

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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.

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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

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Illustration

Style test
Snoopy in the Rain

sketches

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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.

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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.