Win!

I'm in Thailand right now. If you want to know what I've been up to go to tuktuksanuk.blogspot.com

The weekend after I left on this trip my film ECT: The Story of Two Women screened in NYC's animation block party festival. I was really excited to be accepted because its the biggest animation festival in nyc, and I think I'd eventually like to find a job a there. I found out from a post by my on my other blog (from my buddy kara) that I won Best Documentary short. Yay! I wish I could have been there. Check out the link: http://www.animationblockparty.com/about.html

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.