Anna O’Brian is always on the lookout for renter-friendly ways to make her apartment cuter. When she saw some videos about stained glass on TikTok and YouTube, she thought: “I could do that!” She started small with suncatchers, gradually working her way up to window panels.
The Florida native came to L.A. in 2013 to study character animation at CalArts, and she has been working in TV as a Storyboard Artist and Director ever since. Currently, she’s directing Disney TVA’s upcoming Big City Greens movie. Unlike TV animation, which moves quickly, O’Brian says, “Making stained glass is an extremely slow and tedious process … so working in this art form has been a nice change of pace.”
As well, stained glass design has its own unique rules that differ from animation. “In art school we’re taught to avoid tangents in our drawings at all costs, but in stained glass they’re essential to a design’s structural integrity,” O’Brian says. “Also, in story we rarely get to work with color, so it’s been really fun to exercise that muscle.”
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