personal projects & MORE:
some of the project links don’t work yet, pages are under construction!!
Hi, I’m Mirta and I’m an artist from Zadar, Croatia.
I do animation, character design, illustration, layout, comics, storyboards, etc…I obtained BA & MA degrees in Animated Film & New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and did my internship at AIM Creative Studios in Portugal.
My clients include Cartoon Saloon and Luma film.Most of the time I am drawing.
c o n t a c t: mirtaoberon@gmail.com ; Linktree
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volunteering
- Cartoon Saloon: Scene Prep on Silly Sundays (TB Harmony, Photoshop)
- Cartoon Saloon: Posing on Silly Sundays (TB Harmony, Photoshop)
- Cartoon Saloon: Digital Ink & Paint on My Father’s Dragon (TB Harmony)
- Luma film: lead animator on Tonka će sutra, 2D short (TV Paint)
- AIM Creative Studios: internship; worked in various roles on various projects (MOHO, AE, Maya, TVP, PS…)
- Adriatic Animation: assistant animator on TedEd video The Myth of Sisyphus (TV Paint)
- Prime Render Studios: colourist on animated short Cyclists (The Gimp)
- Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb: BA & MA in Animated Film & New Media
- Toon Boom Harmony training by Adam’s Animation Academy, organised by Cartoon Saloon
- workshops: Ed Hooks (Acting for Animators), Karl Gnass (life drawing), Raymond Huisman (portrait drawing)
- Erasmus+ Internship: AIM Creative Studios in Porto, Portugal
- Erasmus+ Student Exchange Program: Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland
- CEEPUS Student Exchange Program: University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
- Animateka festival in Ljubljana (animated short Makija)
- Revija studentskog filma festival in Zagreb (animated short Makija)
- OHOHO Comics & Street Art Festival in Zagreb (comic strip Štrigice se vozu u zlatnin vaporu), exhibition in gallery Siva
- Supertoon festival in Šibenik (animated short Makija)
- Vox Feminae festival in Zageb (animated short Makija)
- SYSF Night at De Liceiras18, Porto (animated short Makija)
- OHOHO Comics & Street Art Festival in Zagreb (mural)
- Collagistas festival in Dublin (experimental animation Shelter Run)
- 2018-Future of Europe at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague (poster exhibition)
- Feminist Art Colony in Sićevo, organised by the Center for Girls from Niš + exhibition
- exhibition ARThoc at Galerija Klovićevi dvori in Zagreb (animated short Ponedjeljak)
- film festival 48. Revija hrvatskog filmskog stvaralaštva, main competition (animated short Ponedjeljak)
- art colony + exhibition organised by Općina Petrijanec, Croatia
- exhibition at International Boat of Culture in Łódź (puppet & set from my stop-motion short Priljepak)
- comic Ni tu ni tamo, published in Crtice s otoka zine
- OHOHO Comics & Street Art Festival in Zagreb: comic strip Štrigice se vozu u zlatnin vaporu, in 2nd edition of OHOHO zine
- comic Đir oko Silbe, published in Critce s otoka zine
- Stop-motion workshop for children:
- Organised by IGOR – Lifelong Learning Centre in Nature
- Me and my colleague Dean Hamer led 3 stop-motion workshops for 3 classes of 5th grade kids as part of their curriculum. Marindvor, Croatia, 2024.
- Stop-motion workshop for children:
- Organised by Eko-Zadar, as part of project Lipa naša Komoševa
- I conducted a 3-day claymation workshop for childrenon the island of Iž. Mali Iž, Croatia, 2018.
- Coffee stop-motion workshop:
- Organised by the Center for Girls from Niš
- I conducted a stop-motion animation workshop using coffee powder under the camera. Niš, Serbia, 2018.
- May 2024. Workaway:
- spent a month in Puglia (Italy) in “working holidays”, doing manual labour – mostly agricultural
- April-July 2023. Croatian language course for refugees:
- held an intermediate online course of Croatian for Ukranian refugees living in Croatia
- organised by Mova Group
- 2008.-2012. Dog shelter in Zadar:
- on and off volunteering at the local dog shelter – doing shifts, cleaning, feeding, walking the dogs, photographing them and managing social media
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