
Originally drawn for the Austin Chronicle.

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Originally drawn for the Austin Chronicle.


This compilation includes motion graphics and visual effects samples by Leah Lovise, created for Bazaarvoice, Chiral Balance, Elephant Productions, Fosforo Films, Moon City Media, Polly Mermaid, Quixote Entertainment, and University of Texas TEx Total Educational Experience. Enjoy!

As a volunteer at Festival Beach Food Forest, I discovered the resilience of nature and became aware of abundance around me, in plants I had…

It’s impossible to leave the swirling wasteland of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch especially if you’re a mutant mermaid who has created a palace of…

Collapsus is an interactive cross-media game that combines live action, rotoscope animation, interactive fiction, and documentary film. The story is set in the near future, portraying the affects that the world energy crisis has on international politics and the growing population.

Collapsus is produced and directed by Tommy Pallotta and received an Emmy nomination for Best Digital Fiction, a People’s Choice Award and Interactive Award nominations at SXSW 2011, the Dutch Spin Award, and a World Summit Award.

This is an illustration for Trouble Puppet Theater Company‘s Cruel Circus. Here’s a review of Cruel Circus by Adam Roberts of The Austin Chronicle. Here…

This is the second book of the COURI VINE series, called Journey to the Planet Earth. Couri Vine was born with a deadly lung defect…

In 2005, I moved to Austin, Texas to work as a rotoscope animator for the film A Scanner Darkly. In 2020, another Richard Linklater film…

Using the existing art from the Moxie & Sparx Explain NF1 comic book, I created a motion comic for Children’s Tumor Foundation to explain neurofibromatosis…

Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.
This was a collaborative effort between actor David Yeakle, visual effects artist Gary Walker, motion graphic artist Glenn Dill (Graphicon Industries), and motion graphics artist Leah Lovise. It was created for the 2013 Urban Skep BYOBeard Group Art Show.
Logo design for Pixel Spring, a lean development company. The company later changed names and this mark was never used. Creating a balance design, incorporating…

Poster design for Riddley Walker, adapted for Trouble Puppet Theater Company by Artistic Director Connor Hopkins, from the award-winning cult-classic novel by Russell Hoban.

Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.

Books 3 & 4 of the comic book series COURI VINE are complete! This completes the first story arch of the Couri Vine series. We…

Oil on canvas, part of a solo art show in November 2017 at Vintage Heart Coffee in Austin, Texas.

These designs where created for the signage at the Festival Beach Food Forest a grassroots pilot project neighboring the Festival Beach Community Garden and RBJ…

In 2008 at Salvage Vanguard Theater, Tongue and Groove Theatre captured the hearts of audiences with a stage performance of the classic French film The Red…

Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.

Book 4 Sacrifice ends the first series of Couri Vine. Held hostage in a high-tech labyrinth on the Near Side of the Moon, eleven-year-old Couri…

It’s not always necessary to reinvent the wheel, but reinventing oneself is a ceaseless process. A career in graphic designer means practicing this act of…

Heritage Tree Ordinance Takes Root Tree lovers stand their ground – and win Keller Keeps Her Robes, for Now Special judge says Keller’s conduct in…

This is an editorial illustration drawn for the article Beyond Black-Eyed Peas for the Austin Chronicle.
