Work Work

Bakery extraordinaire by day and freelance animator by night.... Its all work and no play until I leave for Thailand next Thursday. At least I'll have a 22 hour flight to catch up on sleep!

Happy Birthday USA

Happy 4th of July! from Laura Piraino on Vimeo.

I got a new camera (Panasonic Lumix fz50)! Last night I finally got a chance to play with it at the Marblehead fireworks. good times.

School's out forever

A LOT has happened since I last bothered to write on this thing.
Here are some of the highlights:

1. I graduated from MassArt! Class of 2008!

2. I won the 2008 MassArt Godine travel grant! This summer I will spend an entire month volunteering and adventuring touring in Thailand! July 24- August 23 :)

3. My degree project "ECT: The Story of Two Women" got into two film festivals!

The Chicago Film Brigade
Du Festival du Court Métrage d’animation de Neufchâteau

4. I was hired for my first freelance animation job (along with the amazing Susan Chien and Brian Duffy). We will create 10-15 second animations and title sequences for this documentary:

Herskovits: A Jew at the Heart of Darkness

Some less than exciting news includes moving back to my parent's house in Beverly Ma, and working a crappy part time job at the local supermarket. Hopefully when I get back from my trip I can find some sort of full time work that doesn't involve fry-o-laters.

ECT: The Story of Two Women

ECT: The Story of Two Women from Laura Piraino on Vimeo.

World Premier!

I finally finished my degree project! It screened on Friday at the Mass Art animation show. I was a bit nervous because the women whose personal stories I portrayed in the film were both in the audience seeing it for the first time. It went over really well and I had an awesome time celebrating all of the great films that my classmates have made this year. To the right is a picture of me with some of the people I interviewed for my film. My grandmother as well as Kitty and Mike Dukakis.   

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Into the light......

I'm finally in the end stages of my degree project!! Sound, Titles, and nit picky editing. I haven't posted in awhile because I decided to reshoot the entire project. It wasn't exactly fun but I'm glad I did it. The colors look way better this time. I also spent some time messing around with watercolors under the camera and came up with this for the shock scene and titles.

Animator for hire!

My degree project is due in all too the near future, graduation is rapidly approaching, and I'm getting ready to apply for jobs. In portfolio class, we're working on business cards, postcards,and DVD's to give out. My teacher Dave Schlafman helped me pimp out my designs with some textures and fun fonts. I like.