Kristen Miller is pursuing the craft of writing while keeping her full-time job as a motion graphics artist.
2024 marks her first year with First Draft – an organization she’s partnered with to help her complete her novel, “And She Was,” throughout November. Working with the membership and board of this organization for several years makes her doubly motivated to meet her personal goal of 200K words.
Kristen’s passion for animation and motion graphics goes deep into her being. Self-taught throughout her career (including deducing how movies worked at the age of 4), she works to improve her skills with ever-changing new technologies. The merger of creativity and machine always fascinated her, and to see it play out over the years has been exciting.
Now, she specializes in motion graphics using the Adobe Suite. Her favorite part of the production process is organizing the various pieces through the project – human and digital assets alike. She also enjoys the economics of using assets interchangeably through different applications.
But it’s 2D, traditional animation that is her real love. Like Bugs Bunny and The Lion King. She has great respect for the artists who can make these films, because she is intimately aware of the time, effort, and devotion required to create them. Her favorite traditionally animated film is “Fantastic Planet,” directed by Rene Laloux. It gives her encouragement to create her own film in the abstract.
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