Illustrator - Author - Animator
Luna de Lara
I am an illustrator, author, and 2D animator with a focus on character development and storytelling. I am interested in creating comics, illustrated storybooks, short films, video games, and expressive illustrations. I have been drawing and writing since I was a child and I am inspired by animals, nature, magic, and my multi-cultural upbringing. I like to use art to inspire and help others, so I take pride in faithfully bringing my own and other’s visions to life and I am very passionate about my work.
Latest Works
Portfolio
Animation
Showreel
My practice
I am an illustrator, author, and 2D animator with a focus on character development and storytelling. I am interested in creating comics, illustrated storybooks, short films, video games, and expressive illustrations. I have been drawing and writing since I was a child and I am inspired by animals, nature, magic, and my multi-cultural upbringing. I like to use art to inspire and help others, so I take pride in faithfully bringing my own and other’s visions to life and I am very passionate about my work.
My experience
I am a recent graduate from UniSA with a Bachelor in Design (Illustration and Animation) with a GPA of 6.73, making me the dux of my year. I volunteered as a member of the Bloom Grad Show Committee, where I helped organise 11 fundraising events throughout the year leading up to the Bloom Graduate Exhibition at the end of the year. At the exhibition the short animated film I created with RongYe Zhang won 3rd place in the Adelaide Festival Theatre's Moving Image Program, and I was an Honorable Mention for Best Portfolio by AGDA SA.In 2023, I was selected for a mentorship with Victor Glushchenko at Rising Sun Pictures, and I was given a grant to attend the Winter School Exchange (on art, pop culture and business) at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. In 2022, I was selected by Monkeystack Studios to participate in a 2D Animation training course in partnership with CDW Studios and upon course completion I was contracted to work on their animation team for the production of the Adult Swim show, YOLO Silver Destiny. From 2020 to 2021 I received Mentorship from Ana María Méndez Salgado in story structure and development and comic book creation. Since 2018 I have been selling my art online at pop culture conventions as physical products and digital commissions.