Art for Art Sake
Motion Graphics Reel
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!
Undone
Senior animator with Minnow Mountain‘s rotoscope team for the sci-if series, Undone. After 28-year-old Alma nearly dies in a car accident, she finds that she…
A Permaculture Podcast
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…
Corporate Identity Logos
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…
Couri Vine book 4 Sacrifice
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…
Polly Mermaid
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…
Cruel Circus
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…
Craft Beer
Greetings from Austin, TX postcard series.
Hostages COURI VINE Book 3
The third book of the COURI VINE series, called Hostages, is complete. Find out more about how you can help us print this book and…
New Year’s good-luck foods
This is an editorial illustration drawn for the article Beyond Black-Eyed Peas for the Austin Chronicle.
Things you might see at Barton Springs
Greetings from Austin, TX postcard series.
Invincible Czars’ Nosferatu
Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.
Rotoscope for Linklater
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…
What kind of breakfast taco are you?
Greetings from Austin, TX postcard series.
You are here, and here we go!
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…
Rosecomb Bantam Rooster in the Sweet Potato Vine
Raising bantam chickens in central Austin, Texas has altered my perceptions of cultivating one’s own food. Caring for these birds, collecting their eggs, and simply…
Collapsus
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.
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.
Festival Beach Food Forest
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…
Phantom of the Opera
Art print for The Invincible Czars’ tour of the silent film with live original score.
Journey to the Planet Earth COURI VINE Book 2
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…
Our KickStarter goal was met! Books 3 & 4 of COURI VINE have had a first print run! Many THANKS to the 111 wonderful people who backed our project!
Skull with Artichokes and Tulips
Oil on canvas
Let’s Ride Austin
Tame the Sugar Bear
Illustration for Alice Johnson, DDS.
EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR
Oil on canvas, part of a solo art show in November 2017 at Vintage Heart Coffee in Austin, Texas.
Association Montessori Internationale – Motion Logo
Association Montessori Internationale approached me with a fun challenge; transform the existing AMI logo into the three growth stages, and represent the fundamentals of Maria…
MUNICIPAL DEATH MATCH!
Cover art by Leah Lovise for the February 13, 2009 issue of the Austin Chronicle. Medium: clay sculpture.
COURI VINE KickStarter #2
Books 3 & 4 of the comic book series COURI VINE are complete! This completes the first story arch of the Couri Vine series. We…
Riddley Walker
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.
