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


sketches

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

Creature Design


Alien Creatures

Different beasts from alien planets: Planet Lumina, Planet Ikatis, and Planet Jiabba

Jared & Oliver: Go All Out 1


Jared & Oliver: Celebrate Christmas