My Story
Growing up in the midwest, you had to scrape me off of the tv every night before bed because I'd be glued to the screen as soon as I got home from school. I spent a lot of time with my own imagination as a kid, building worlds and stories in my head while swinging pretend swords at my sister. Most of that time was spent in front of cartoons or videogames, both of which inspired the trajectory of my college experience. I've studied and worked in game design, animation, illustration, and even a little bit of graphic design, and it's all culminated in the upcoming "Space Cadets" pilot, which will premiere in the spring of 2025! You can find out more about Space Cadets... well... here!
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Artist Statement : From start to finish, graphite to graphics software, I push as much comedy, color, and life into my characters as possible. Every one of them reveals a bit of my personality to share with you, like a bizarre “I Spy” of my inner thoughts. Finding that perfect mix of simplicity, expression, humor, and movement is what makes cartoons so special. Many of the characters you'll find in my portfolio are fantastical caricatures of things you might recognize, like trolls, goblins, and even condiments you’d find in your fridge. Others are based on bizarre rituals from other countries and well-known sci-fi films, but they all collided in the particle accelerator of my imagination.
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Juniper Adams is a nonbinary artist born and raised in the midwest. They grew up watching cartoons like Adventure Time and Gravity Falls which deeply inspired their love for 2D animation and still influences their style to this day. They first started animating on Flipnote Studios on their dsi and haven't stopped since. Their dream is to one day create an animated show based on their own characters and stories.
Melina Her
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As a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in animation, illustration, and comics, Melina’s work explores the imagination and intricacies of the human experience through visual storytelling. Raised on a mixture of public broadcasting, Japanese cartoons, and cable, she draws upon mundane life and child-like whimsy to bring entertainment for all ages.
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Grace Williams is an animator and artist based in Menomonie, Wisconsin, earning her bachelor's degree in animation at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She transferred from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point to UW-Stout in 2022 to pursue her love of animation, storyboarding, and storytelling. Williams has completed a variety of artistic endeavors outside of animation like logo design for Sock Opera Dance, Mo's Arcade Bar, UW-Stevens Point, and Company Cooperative Production, prop design for productions like Sandy Hook Elementary New Arts's Diary of a Wimpy Kid "Zoomisical", photography for various dance productions, and even murals for Stevens Point Area Senior High School and St. Paul Lutheran Church and Elementary School. Williams currently is participating in freelance work in film and animation.
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Movement is everything. My subject matter is the nature of motion and how it describes the human experience. I use traditional materials as well as digital resources to capture movement and life through animation. Everything is captured in spontaneous movements of emotion to tell a story and I strive to tell stories of all kinds with the language of life.
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Luna Yang is a Hmong American woman who grew up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota watching Japanese anime, reading Japanese manga, online webcomics, and playing many digital games. This sparked her love for art, and at a young age, she became an artist. Her inspiration came from Studio Ghibli films, movies by Makoto Shinkai such as Your Name and Suzume, The Final Fantasy series and more recently, Valorant of Riot Games. She is in love with action, fantasy, and drama genres, and has started exploring with cyberpunk aesthetics within her passion projects.
Luna is currently studying at the University of Wisconsin Stout for her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation and Digital media. In the spring of 2023, she had the opportunity to study abroad at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea in the spring of 2023 to experience and learn another culture. Upon returning to UW-Stout in the fall of 2023, Luna worked as a Teacher Assistant for Life Drawing I where she had the opportunity to teach and support a class of students with a professor. One day, she wants to open her own independent studio and produce 2D animated films, though for now, she is on the search for an internship within the animation industry in concept art or animation.