My name is Anna, sometimes known within the online community as Possum, and I'm 21 years old and fresh out of college with a BFA in Animation and a minor in Illustration from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.
Though my college focus might suggest otherwise, the real focus of my work is pre-production and concept art ranging from storyboarding and key-framing, to my favorite thing, character designing. A large focus of what I do is on drawing animals and designing monsters and creatures, as animals have always been my favorite subjects to draw since I was very young. Much of my spare time goes into amateur zoology studies and researching taxonomy because I'm just amazingly cool like that. My ultimate goal is to break into the video game industry and, eventually, work creating alien races and monsters and animal characters to populate the many vast settings that video games can depict.
If you want to be friends, your best bet is contacting and getting to know me via my personal tumblr because I rarely use dA for personal communication.
If you are a recruiter or an interested potential employer, please allow me to make your browsing easier and direct you to my website, which has a far more organized and intuitive layout to help you find what you may need.
Favourite Visual Artist
Nico Marlet, Juanjo Guarnido, Tony Moore
Favourite Movies
How to Train Your Dragon, Reanimator, The Lion King, Jurassic Park
Favourite TV Shows
Transformers Prime, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Bob's Burgers, King of the Hill
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Akira Yamaoka, Porcupine Tree, Yoko Kanno, Woodkid
Favourite Books
The Bartimaeus Trilogy, His Dark materials, The Road
Favourite Games
The World Ends With You, Silent Hill 2, Portal 1 and 2, Okami, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, the Mother series, Bioshock, Ghost Trick, the Pokemon series, Final Fantasy VI
Favourite Gaming Platform
I don't really play console favorites; I own and play Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Nintendo DS, and I run Steam for Mac on my computer.
Tools of the Trade
Microns, Prismacolor and Copic markers, Photoshop CS5 and my Yiynova MSP19U tablet monitor.
Other Interests
Animation from all countries, Mythology, World History and Culture, Biology, Video Gamessssss