Sarah Carranza

Digital Media (Animation)
Creative Writing
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Hi there! I'm a 2D animator and character artist who enjoys experimenting with various styles and am always planning for the future! The main focus of my work revolves around storytelling and fluidity in action. I make comics on the side as well as write scripts, short stories, and poems in combination with my animation skills.
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DANCE

Melissa and Ven, two third graders, are dancing in Melissa’s fantasy where there is a colorful dance floor, streamers, an arch balloon, and a party table with a boom box playing music atop it.
DANCE is a short film project I’ve been working on about a third grader, Ven having strange encounters with their classmate Melissa who seems to have formed an unconventional love for dunce caps. Just a fun little story about embracing the unusual!
  • Turnaround sheet of a little girl named Melissa. She wears a school uniform with a large dunce cap on her head. Short in stature, she has big round eyes with a smile on her face. Three bulletin points read “Clumsy, silly, and curious”
    Turnaround sheet of Melissa for ‘DANCE’.
  • Turnaround sheet for Ven, a third grader. They wear a school uniform with a brown hair bowl cut and purple spiked bracelets. Three bulletin points read “Easy-going, Lone Ranger, and delinquent”
    Turnaround sheet of Ven for ‘DANCE’.
  • Melissa sits in the dunce corner with a dunce cap on. Posters that read ‘don’t believe in yourself’ or ‘a good little boy never talks back’ are stuck up on the wall.
  • In a gloomy classroom, Ms. Owl, a teacher with a broken-looking nose and glaring glasses is bent over to her student, Melissa’s height. Ms. Owl is pointing to the left with an angry scowl on her face. Melissa’s back is facing us as she holds a piece of chalk in her hand while standing in front of a chalkboard that has ‘2+2” written on it.
    Ms. Owl scolding Melissa to sit in the dunce corner.
 

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Characters

  • Turnaround sheet of a purple ghost with neon blue patterns tattooed all over the body. It has neon pink eyes and pink flames on its head. There’s a dark blue backdrop.
    Turnaround sheet of a ghost character.
  • Turnaround sheet of a farmer woman with long black hair loosely tied in a side pony tail thats hung over her shoulder. She’s wearing a white button up shirt, blue overalls, and brown shoes.
  • Turnaround sheet of a young girl. She has reddish hair, freckles, and a tooth gap in her smile. She wears a farmers hat, yellow long sleeve button up, blue overalls, and brown shoes.
  • A young woman in a sitting position with her hands wrapped around her left knee. She has light brown hair, sharp teeth, long, jagged fingernails, and hair on her arms and legs. She is wearing a torn yellow fabric tied around her neck, a “U” neck t-shirt, burgundy shorts, and brown shoes. She has an assortment of colorful bandaids all over her body and a pinkish blindfold over her eyes.
  • A cartoony caricature of a smiling Sarah from the chest, up with long brown hair and wearing purple glasses and a dark blue t-shirt with neon turquoise at the ends of it. The backdrop is a light purple circle.
    Profile icon.
  • Four character designs lined up wearing an array of fashionable high school clothing.
    Character designs for a collaborative project. Designs and colors done by me.
  • Character sheet of a princess with light gray hair and darker gray stripes in her hair. She wears a crown and a big purple bow on her head. She is wearing a purple, classic princess dress that has puffy sleeves with yellow bows at the end, a yellow bow on her chest, and a purple and white dress. She has a purple cat collar with a bell around her neck.
    Character sheet of Princess Alina.
  • Character sheet of a miller. He has dark blue hair and is wearing a mustard yellow button up long sleeve, a brown garment around his waist, dark blue pants, and black boots. He has a piece of wheat in his mouth.
    Character sheet of Burly Guy
 

Creature Design

  • A large, deer looking creature with dark blue skin and light blue spots all around. It has quills on its back that stretch down to its long tail. The creature has translucent neon yellow horns, a glowing blue-green face, and four pink eyes with two on each side.
    Zoo alien animal
  • Text: The Hungy Rotmassi, by Sarah Carranza. The small creature standing, has large blue eyes, a koala nose, chipmunk cheeks, and large, bat-like ears. It has a puff of beige fur on its chest and its arms are those of a flying squirrel with extra saggy skin attached. The bottom half of its body is bird like with a bird tail and yellow bird feet. This creature is standing on a pile of grass.
    Original mythical creature.
  • Text: “Sarah Carranza, creature design, 2019. Teeth have become rotted and chipped over time after sifting through garbage for food. Has multiple colored spots used as camouflage. This creature lives in polluted water.” Large sea-like creature. Brown-grey, blubbery. Speckles of red and blue all around body. It has a long, fish tail with smaller feet and claws for hands. Face resembles a capybara and strands of black hair sit on its head. The backdrop is underwater with sand and garbage around the creature.
 
 

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