www.smilecass.com
If you are interested in acquiring leggings or bathing suits with my drawings please click on the “Watercolor Products” section to see all the available patterns, and email me with your order. Keep in mind that I do not produce in massive quantities, so is probably that very few people will wear your outfit. Smile as much as you can wearing my items. Life can be whatever you want if you project yourself in the colors you feel like.
My knowledge in Media made me understand the involvement of each department and their implication in the Film Industry. I am able to perceive visual projects in a more generic concept. In that sense I benefit from it, and have decided to commit my career to stop motion animation and to the design of creatures with special fx make up techniques.
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions”. Albert Einstein
With a Degree in Media, I found my way into the film industry as a Producer in Los Angeles, and started working for Fred Roos, a prestigious Casting Director/ Executive Producer (“The Godfather“, “Apocalypse Now“), where I ended up coordinating the cult movie “Prettyface“, directed by Jessica Janos and worked overseas for the Director of the International Ibiza Film Festival for two consecutive years. I also have interests in social work combined with film, and I was able to assist teaching at “Inclusion Films“, a film workshop for children with disabilities run by Joey Travolta.
I started the production company, “Smilecass Productions “, where I managed to direct my own documentaries, short films, animation sketches and music videos. On 2014 I traveled the United States recording “The Salo Project“, a series of pop up Filipino dinners with Yana Gilbuena.
Recently I committed myself to the arts. I studied character maquette sculpture at the Cinema MakeUp School in Los Angeles, a series of workshops at School of Visual Arts in New York, also one and one classes at Dharma Collectibles in Spain, with Arturo Balseiro (“Pan’s Labyrinth“, “Eva“) and the stopmotion workshop of Academia de la Animacion in Barcelona.
In 2016 I began painting watercolors, and while I kept producing and editing projects, I got my first job in the prosthetics department on the feature film “Cold Skin”, directed by Xavier Gens (“Hitman“). My main goal is to work in stop motion animation, creature design and special fx make up.
In 2017 we shot the visual poem La Perrera, written by the Los Angeles poet, Xochitl Julisa Bermejo. Curiosity took me to create a clothing line, made in Spain, of printed watercolor patterns in leggings, bathing suits and all sort of fabrics for different purposes. You can acquire the items in my other website www.smilecass.com
In 2018 I produced the web series “Crypto Game”. In 2019, I was involved with Director Javier Yañez in two projects; one where I produced the music video of the band “LOOF”, and the other where I did the wardrobe for the short film “Equals”, an adaptation of one of the stories in the manga Utopías of Shun Umezawa.
EDUCATION
2013 Creature Maquette Sculpture Course at Cinema Makeup School in Los Angeles
2014 several continuing education classes at School of Visual Arts in New York
Puppet Making for Stop-Motion Animation
Introduction to Fabrication
Stop-Motion Animation
Special FX Makeup and Silicone Prosthetics for Television and Film
2015 One and One class with Arturo Balseiro in Spain:
Designing your our Monster Creature; Sculpting, Mold Making, Eye Making, Hair punching and Painting:
–Fantasy Airbrush Paint
–Realistic Airbrush Paint
2016 Stop motion workshop at Academia de la Animacion, Barcelona
CASSANDRA SICRE
cs@smilecassproductions.com
IG @smilecass2001
