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Elizabeth Yee

BFA in Illustration - Entertainment Arts — Illustration
Course:
Entertainment Strategies, Portfolio Design Lab Ent Arts
Faculty:
Dawn Yamazi
Term:
2025 Fall

A Place Between Places

A Place between Places began last term, where I want to come up with an original 
personal story that I have created based on my overall arc journey. I was born with 
Auditorial Process Memory Disorder, where my life started out as a “different and feeling invisible,” that I dealt with the very hard reality of being an outsider during my youth. As someone with an invisible 
learning disability, I was able to persevere by working hard through trials and tribulations to get to a place where I feel like I can belong.

The core of A Place between Worlds is about finding your voice, identity, and a safe place where you feel like you know where you belong. In addition to A Place between Worlds, it takes an emotional journey of my personal life by creating key moments in the story. Coming up with this personal project, I was 
inspired by the Art of Zootopia, where I want to simplify my personal arch journey into an anamorphic world.

Process:

I started my personal project in Entertainment Strategies, where I can finally create my first personal project at Art Center. 

A Place between Places showcases my overall project in its final stages. I had grown so much in learning in depth of visual development, but I think I had learned that I enjoy bringing characters into a painting, which creates storytelling through acting within my characters for each of the 5 key moments. 

Learning Outcomes:

I had learn that it is okay to not be perfect and making myself harder to avoid rendering. I tend to render things in my artwork, but I really enjoy coloring within the linework, which I learned from last term. 

Project Website:
https://elizabethyee.myportfolio.com/a-place-between-places
Tags:
Animation,
Concept Design,
Illustration
Emmy and Master Olden are having a conversation along the bank of the Ocean of Mist.
As part of Emmy's journey to find herself and a sense of belonging, she visits Ganesha, who oversees and gives good fortune, living deep in a hidden sacred temple.