Dana Terrace
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| Born | December 8, 1990 Hamden, Connecticut, United States |
| 🏫 Education | School of Visual Arts |
| 💼 Occupation | Show runner • animator • producer |
| 📆 Years active | 2013–present |
| Notable work | The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Ducktales |
| ❤️ Partner(s) | Alex Hirsch |
Dana Terrace (born December 8, 1990) is an American storyboard artist and creator. She is the creator of the Disney Channel series The Owl House, for which she provides the voice of Tiny Nose. Prior to her work as a show runner, she worked on the Disney Channel series Gravity Falls, as well as on the 2017 reboot of Ducktales.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Terrace was born in Hamden, Connecticut. She spent eight years going to Catholic school, gaining an interest in painters such as John Bauer, Remedios Varo, and Hieronymus Bosch.[2][3] As a child, she watched cartoons like Garfield, The PowerPuff Girls, South Park, and The Simpsons, inspiring her later works,[4][3][5] Similarly, Hayao Miyazaki's "mature anime" film titled Princess Mononoke, Studio Ghibli films, and Garfield influenced her as well.[6][5][7] Prior to studying animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Terrace was a dancer for 10 years.[8] While obsessing over Pokémon as kid, she was "big into cats," with the characters she drew being cats or cat-girls "being chased by ghosts and dinosaur ghosts."[9] This continued at SVA. While there she drew for about eight hours a day, as she had during her years at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, Connecticut,[3] and began posting work to her Tumblr blog.[6] In April 2012, during her third year at SVA, she created an animated short titled "Kickball," which was praised for its design and "expressive motion,"[10] complete with voiceovers by Yotem Perel and music by Jeff Liu.[11] Her film won a grant from the National Board of Review.[12][13] The following year, she worked with Iker Maidagan on a short animated film titled Mirage.[14] Maidagan did the layout and wrote the story, while Terrace animated and design the characters. The film was praised as being "flawlessly executed,"[14] was shown at the LA Shorts Fest,[15] and resulted in Terrace and Maidagan receiving an Alumni Scholarship Award.[16] At the time, when asked about animating, she said she loved it, and said she is on the track to become a "proper filmmaker."[17] She later described her experience at SVA as a mixed bag, although she stated she learned a lot from online tutorials, her peers, and fellow students.[9]
After graduating from SVA in 2013, she interned the following summer at JibJab,[18] where she met an individual from Gravity Falls who saw her student film Mirage and sent her a storyboard test, subsequently landing her a job on the series as a storyboard revisionist.[19][20][2] As she described it in 2017, she was brought into Gravity Falls because creative people working on the show liked what they saw her her Tumblr blog, and was brought in because she was willing to any kind of animation for a specific scene.[6] Her work for Gravity Falls would be her "first professional animation job," where she learned to storyboard, how to handle a crew, and have a clear vision.[21] In 2019, she said she had a "wonderful experience" on Gravity Falls and said she "couldn’t have asked for a better first gig."[5] However, she admitted in a 2016 interview that she was waiting to hear back from Steven Universe because she was a fan of Rebecca Sugar after seeing her films at SVA, but they "took too long to reply" so she decided to work for Gravity Falls instead.[9]
In 2014, she tabled at the CTN Animation Expo with Nate Swineheart, and sold prints, sketchbooks, and other works.[22] In later years, she drew illustrations of characters such as Hermione Granger, a protagonist in the Harry Potter series.[23] In 2018, she inked 34 pages of Hirsch's graphic novel, Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: 4 All-New Adventures![24][25][26]
Career[edit]
In 2017, Terrace directed various episodes of DuckTales and made the character Webby Vanderquack "more dynamic."[20][4][27] Terrace later described this job as a place she wasn't feeling "fulfilled artistically or emotionally," which moved her to create her own series.[2] Although she had never watched the series before working on the show, the line producer for the second season of Gravity Falls was also working on DuckTales and brought her into the show.[9] The same year, Variety highlighted her as an up-and-coming animator, saying that she is learning more all the time and is always "looking for the next way to push herself."[6] Also that year she worked as a storyboard revisionist for Tangled: Before Ever After,[28] a film directed by Tom Caulfield and Stephen Sandoval, the latter who would later work on The Owl House.[29]
After years of working on other Disney Channel shows, Terrace began to pitch her own series, coming up with the characters and "baseline idea" for the show at the end of 2016.[30] Her pitch, which came only a few months after she started directing DuckTales in 2017,[31] "a young girl [who] goes to another world and learns magic from an older witch",[32] later developed into The Owl House.[33] The first character she created was the Owl Lady, which she based on the women in her family,[31] including her aunts, mother, and grandmother. The character Luz Noceda is named after her roommate.[34] The series was also influenced by Pokemon Red, a game Terrace’s father, Thomas Terrace, an attorney in Hamden, Connecticut, gave her before he died when she was age 11.[2][3] Terrace said she was motivated to create The Owl House to prove it was a good story, and gave it the current name because of the "mystique surrounding owls."[35][3] She later said that while there is some information for fans who want to "dig deeper" into the show, like codes and ciphers in Gravity Falls, there is a way to "enjoy the show as it is" without digging into the show's lore.[21]
The series began development on February 23, 2018 when it was greenlit alongside Amphibia, and aired on January 10, 2020 on Disney Channel in the United States.[36][37] The series was approved for a second season on November 21, 2019.[35][38] The same year, Terrace illustrated an alternative cover for issue 4 of Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake: Card Wars, a BOOM! Studios six-issue miniseries which featured Fionna and Cake, the gender-swapped versions of Finn and Jake.[39] Terrace also signed a petition for pay equity in the animation industry, as did other fellow creators like Rebecca Sugar, Justin Roiland, Lauren Faust, Ian Jones-Quartey, Owen Dennis, and Matt Braly.[40] Additionally, Terrace did a three-hour GoFundMe charity livestream with Daron Nefcy, creator of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and Alex Hirsch, where they raised money for the immigrant nonprofit, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.[41] Apart from this, Terrace seems to have storyboarded an episode of Adventure Time titled "Bad Timing."[42][43] A few years later, Terrace criticized the cancellation of The Venture Bros. by Adult Swim, writing "this timeline sucks."[44]
Terrace and LGBTQ+ representation in The Owl House[edit]
The Owl House has been praised for its LGBTQ+ characters, for which Terrace is responsible. She actively uses Twitter to confirm the LGBTQ+ identities of characters.[45][46][8] Though Disney was initially resistant to the portrayal of a queer relationship on the show, Terrace eventually gained their support, crediting the change of mind to her "stubbornness".[45][47]
News sites like CNN and Deadline have expressed support for these portrayals, while conservative sites like One Million Moms have expressed the opposite, condemning Disney Channel for their inclusion of LGBTQ+ identities in the series.[48][49]
Personal life[edit]
Terrace came out as bisexual in 2017,[50] and drew on her experiences to create The Owl House and the bisexual character Luz Noceda.[47] Terrace has mentioned multiple times that she draws inspiration for Luz Noceda from herself.[8]
She is currently dating Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch.[51] Terrace and Hirsch have participated in numerous charity live streams together for organizations such as Planned Parenthood and The Trevor Project.[52]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mirage | Character designer and animator |
| 2017 | Tangled Before Ever After | Storyboard revisionist |
Television[edit]
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Gravity Falls | Storyboard revisionist |
| 2017 | Ducktales | Director |
| 2018–present | The Owl House | Creator, executive producer, voice of Tiny Nose |
References[edit]
- ↑ Murphy, Jackson (January 6, 2020). "INTERVIEW: Creator Dana Terrace on Disney's "The Owl House"". Animation Scoop. Archived from the original on March 20, 2020. Retrieved September 3, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Asarch, Steven (January 8, 2020). "The Owl House Creators Talk Bringing Creepy Back to Disney With a Dash of Bosch". Newsweek. Archived from the original on January 25, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Dunne, Susan (January 6, 2020). "Hamden native creates Disney Channel's newest show 'The Owl House'". Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on January 6, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Switzer, Ken (August 10, 2017). "Dana Terrace on Directing Episodes of Disneys New Ducktales and More". School of Visual Arts New York. Archived from the original on December 2, 2019. Retrieved September 3, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Zahed, Ramin (March 22, 2019). "Animation Magazine's Rising Stars of Animation 2019". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on July 24, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Idelson, Karen (May 3, 2017). "Variety's 2017 10 Animators to Watch - Dana Terrace". Variety. Archived from the original on May 22, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Switzer, Ken (August 10, 2017). "Animator Dana Terrace on Directing Episodes of Disney's New 'DuckTales,' and More [Video]". School of Visual Arts. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved September 10, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) The video has been archived here. It is not known whether Terrace is referring to Garfield the comic or the animated series, Garfield and Friends. - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Terrace, Dana (September 2, 2020). "Reddit AMA". Reddit. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020. Retrieved September 3, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Terrace, Dana (December 2016). "Hurricane Life: A Conversation with Dana Terrace". Fülle Circle Magazine (Interview). Interviewed by Jason Anders. United States: Blogspot. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ↑ Amidi, Amid (April 21, 2012). ""Kickball" by Dana Terrace". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on February 24, 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Blazenhoff, Rusty (April 23, 2012). "Kickball!, A Sweet Animated Short by Dana Terrace". The Laughing Squid. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "2012 Student Grant Awardees - Kickball [by] Dana Terrace". National Board of Review. 2020. Archived from the original on September 5, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "https://film.sva.edu/dusty/winners-list/". School of Visual Arts. 2020. Archived from the original on April 2, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); External link in|title=(help) See bottom of 2012 Winners section - ↑ 14.0 14.1 Ruocco, Michael (April 21, 2012). ""Mirage" by Iker Maidagan and Dana Terrace". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on September 5, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Zahed, Ramin (August 27, 2013). "L.A. Shorts Fest Announces Animation Screening". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on January 28, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Award Recipients". School of Visual Arts. 2020. Archived from the original on April 4, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) See 2013 section. - ↑ "Dana Terrace – 2013". School of Visual Arts. 2013. Archived from the original on September 10, 2020. Retrieved September 10, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Terrace, Dana (August 2, 2020). "Alumni Blog: Dana Terrace". School of Visual Arts Alumni Blog. Archived from the original on July 4, 2020. Retrieved September 3, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ McDonnell, Chris (August 21, 2013). "Artist of the Day: Dana Terrace". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on January 24, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 20.0 20.1 Nolan, Liam (January 10, 2020). "The Owl House's Creator, Art Director Explain How They Crafted the New Show". CBR. Archived from the original on March 28, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 21.0 21.1 Venable, Nick (January 9, 2020). "The Owl House: Why Gravity Falls And Steven Universe Fans Will Love Disney's New Series". Cinema Blend. Archived from the original on September 6, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
- ↑ Terrace, Dana (September 3, 20145). "CTN!". Dana Draws [old art blog of Dana Terrace]. Blogspot. Archived from the original on November 27, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ Silva, Lílian Carine Madureira Vieira da (2018). "3.1.1 Hermione Granger". O espelho de Ojesed : representações do feminino na obra Harry Potter [The mirror of Ojesed: representations of the feminine in the work Harry Potter] (Undergraduate) (in português). LUME (Digital Repository of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul). Retrieved September 5, 2020.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex (2018). Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: 4 All-New Adventures!. Wilmington, Delaware: Disney Electronic Content. p. Inside Cover. ISBN 9781368017091. Search this book on
- ↑ Ramírez Bonilla, María Paula (2019). Gravity Falls y las narrativas transmedia. Una historia en múltiples dimensiones [Gravity Falls and transmedia narratives: A story in multiple dimensions] (PDF) (Thesis) (in sp). Pontifical Xavierian University. pp. 57, 79, 103. Retrieved September 5, 2020.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Harper, Jane (June 29, 2018). "July's Best New Books for Young Readers". Barnes & Noble. Archived from the original on September 6, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hipes, Patrick (September 5, 2019). "Disney Channel's 'The Owl House' Sets Voice Cast, Secures New York Comic Con Berth". Deadline. Archived from the original on September 5, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Caulfield, Tom (Director), Sandoval, Stephen (Director) (March 20, 2017). Tangled: Before Ever After (Television film). United States: Disney Channel.
- ↑ Nordyke, Kimberly (November 3, 2019). "Disney Channel's 'The Owl House' Gets Season 2 Order Ahead of Series Premiere (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 6, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Trumdore, Dave (January 10, 2020). "'The Owl House' Creator Dana Terrace & Art Director Ricky Cometa on Their Fantasy Tale". Collider. Archived from the original on March 8, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 31.0 31.1 Zahed, Ramid (December 24, 2019). "Disney Channel's 'The Owl House': It's a Hoot!". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on April 8, 2020. Retrieved September 6, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Drew, Emma (January 10, 2020). "SVA Alumnus Dana Terrace Talks About Showrunning Disney's 'The Owl House'". School of Visual Arts. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Lang, Jamie (June 12, 2018). "Disney Announces 'Vikingskool,' Shares Exclusive First Images of 'The Rocketeer,' 'Owl House'". Variety. Archived from the original on June 6, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Elderkin, Beth (October 17, 2019). "The Personal Story Behind Owl House's Magical New Disney Heroine". io9. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 35.0 35.1 Brown, Tracy (January 10, 2020). "For its creator, Disney's 'The Owl House' is the best revenge". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 1, 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ↑ Amidi, Amid (February 23, 2018). "Disney TV Animation Will Produce 2 New Series". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on February 25, 2018. Retrieved September 3, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Disney TVA (November 21, 2019). "Want a look at the magical world of #TheOwlHouse? Got it! Want a premiere date? You got it: January 10th, 2020! Want a Season 2 greenlight? Got that, too!". Twitter. Archived from the original on November 21, 2019. Retrieved September 3, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Trumbore, Dave (November 22, 2019). "Disney Channel Orders Season 2 of 'The Owl House' Ahead of January Premiere". Collider. Archived from the original on January 9, 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ↑ Wang, Jen (2019). Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake Card Wars. London: Titan Comics. p. 158. ISBN 9781787732858. Search this book on
- ↑ Robb, David (August 27, 2018). "Thousands Sign Pay Equity Petition For Animation Industry's Female-Dominated Color Stylist Craft". Deadline. Archived from the original on January 25, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Terrace, Dana (June 27, 2018). "Cartoons vs. The Forces of Evil! Charity Drawathon". YouTube. Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020. The original GoFundMe page, connected to this video, composed by Terrace, is available here.
- ↑ Terrace, Dana (January 21, 2018). "Haha I found my old roughs from Adventure Time's episode: Bad Timing". Tumblr. Archived from the original on May 18, 2019. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ↑ Ofgang, Erik; Wollschlager, Mike; Yuravich, Albie; Cohen, Sherry Shameer (September 7, 2020). "40 Under 40: The Class of 2019". Connecticut Magazine. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ↑ Burton, Bonnie (September 7, 2020). "Adult Swim cancels The Venture Bros after 17 years". CNET. Archived from the original on September 8, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 Terrace, Dana [@DanaTerrace] (August 9, 2020). "I'm bi! I want to write a bi character, dammit! Luckily my stubbornness paid off and now I am VERY supported by current Disney leadership. (Thank you @NashRiskin and team!) Not to mention the amazingness of this crew" (Tweet). Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2020 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Burkholder, Katie (2020-08-11). "Disney Channel's 'The Owl House' to Have Openly Bisexual Character". The Georgia Voice. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-04. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 47.0 47.1 Dudok de Wit, Alex (August 14, 2020). "Disney Executive Tried To Block Queer Characters In 'The Owl House,' Says Creator". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on August 17, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ↑ Morales, Adrianne (August 15, 2020). "Disney confirms its first bisexual lead character, who is also multi-cultural". CNN. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ↑ Rosario, Alexandra Del (August 16, 2020). "'The Owl House' Features Disney's First Bisexual Lead Character". Deadline. Archived from the original on September 1, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ↑ Terrace, Dana [@DanaTerrace] (August 8, 2020). "Congratulations! I'm so happy you enjoyed the episode and it meant that much to you. It was a giant crew effort. Creating these characters led me to come out as bi to my friends and fam back in 2017, I hope they continue to create positive vibes for ppl in future eps! 🦉 🌈" (Tweet). Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2020 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Hirsch, Alex [@_alexhirsch] (December 18, 2015). "Noticed that my girlfriend @DanaTerrace looks eerily similar to Dana Scully and now I can't un-see it" (Tweet). Archived from the original on April 12, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2020 – via Twitter.
- ↑ The Trevor Project [@TrevorProject] (2 August 2017). "Thank you so much @_AlexHirsch for supporting LGBTQ+ youth & our lifesaving work!!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on September 4, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2020 – via Twitter.
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