I'm not big on violence...

...but our assignment in Stephen Chiodo's class this week was to knock over our character somehow.

Direction/Performance for Stop Motion class assignment: Getting Knocked Over from Isabela Dos Santos on Vimeo.

My apologies, little Isabela.

New Reel for 2013!

How exciting! I made a new reel. In other words: Portfolio Day at CalArts is near. 

I've included a lot of new footage that hasn't previously been pushed around the interent, so, enjoy the new-ness:

2013 Animation Reel from Isabela Dos Santos on Vimeo.

I also suspect some updates to this blog design soon... Hope y'all are having a good month of March!

Life Things

I appreciate that this article doesn't just say, "It'll all be better soon!" but rather that you never know what will happen, that you have to figure out what it is that will keep you happy when you inevitably face those shitty spans of life. I don't know if I know what that is for me yet, but this article made me feel good about the uncertainty of life:

http://jeffjlin.com/2013/02/23/ang-lee-and-the-uncertainty-of-success/