About Abbey Luck

	........... About Abbey
Abbey Luck, making dreams come true.	A friend to some, a legend to others, Abbey Luck has amazed and enthralled animation fans since her debut piece Wandering in the 2005 Fit Juried Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico. At this event, Abbey was awarded top prizes by both the curators and the judges at the show, and she got a sweet write-up in THE Magazine:
	"Goofy and beatific haven't fit together so well since Andy Kaufman. Luck's clumsily sculpted alien dude goes through a singing, slo-mo break-dancing, yogic, shamanic journey, and suddenly expires against a baroque cartoon background. There is nothing ground-breaking or in your face about it, but there's a touch of Beckett and Castaneda's Don Juan-meets-a-fourteen-year-old-locked-in-the-basement-on-acid that is hilarious. It's good to giggle, but this piece also has something magical that the french call 'I don't know what' which is what great art is really all about." -Jon Carver, THE Magazine, May 2005
Still from the award-winning film Wandering, also titled Falls Lake.	Since then, Abbey has directed two more stop-motion shorts, Shelf Life and How does it work?, and has worked as an animator on music videos for bands such as The Spinto Band, Prophet Omega and TV on the Radio.
	Raised in the fast-paced farmlands of Ohio, Abbey learned at an early age the value of entertaining oneself in the absence of neighbors. Early on she developed her skills as a writer, creating illustrated books that her mother keeps to this day, and will most likely force you to look at if you happen upon Abbey's childhood home in the cornfields of Wilmington. Underground comix inspired Abbey to learn how to draw properly. Once Abbey discovered the true power of the pen- to create visual imagery- she switched her focus away from writing. After a half-hearted attempt to become a biomedical engineer and her ill-fated employment as a Chicago bike messenger, she decided to pursue a fine arts degree at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. In New Mexico, she fine-tuned her drawing skills and discovered her love for stop-motion animation. Encouraged by her mentor and post-production professor Brad Wolfley, Abbey produced three crude, strange and inspired stop-motion films: Ewotu the Conquerer, Drag, and Unheard Evolution.
Animating on the set of Shelf Life.	After graduating from the College of Santa Fe in 2005 Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Mixed Media, she bid a heart-breaking farewell to her dear desert friends and relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where she resides to this day. Abbey spends most of her time creating intricate pen and ink drawings at her drafting table, listening to Al Green, and reading fiction novels. She also enjoys dancing and the television program Lost.
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........... About Abbey

Abbey Luck, making dreams come true.

A friend to some, a legend to others, Abbey Luck has amazed and enthralled animation fans since her debut piece Wandering in the 2005 Fit Juried Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico. At this event, Abbey was awarded top prizes by both the curators and the judges at the show, and she got a sweet write-up in THE Magazine:

"Goofy and beatific haven't fit together so well since Andy Kaufman. Luck's clumsily sculpted alien dude goes through a singing, slo-mo break-dancing, yogic, shamanic journey, and suddenly expires against a baroque cartoon background. There is nothing ground-breaking or in your face about it, but there's a touch of Beckett and Castaneda's Don Juan-meets-a-fourteen-year-old-locked-in-the-basement-on-acid that is hilarious. It's good to giggle, but this piece also has something magical that the french call 'I don't know what' which is what great art is really all about."

-Jon Carver, THE Magazine, May 2005

Still from the award-winning film Wandering, also titled Falls Lake.

Since then, Abbey has directed two more stop-motion shorts, Shelf Life and How does it work?, and has worked as an animator on music videos for bands such as The Spinto Band, Prophet Omega and TV on the Radio.

Raised in the fast-paced farmlands of Ohio, Abbey learned at an early age the value of entertaining oneself in the absence of neighbors. Early on she developed her skills as a writer, creating illustrated books that her mother keeps to this day, and will most likely force you to look at if you happen upon Abbey's childhood home in the cornfields of Wilmington.

Underground comix inspired Abbey to learn how to draw properly. Once Abbey discovered the true power of the pen- to create visual imagery- she switched her focus away from writing. After a half-hearted attempt to become a biomedical engineer and her ill-fated employment as a Chicago bike messenger, she decided to pursue a fine arts degree at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. In New Mexico, she fine-tuned her drawing skills and discovered her love for stop-motion animation. Encouraged by her mentor and post-production professor Brad Wolfley, Abbey produced three crude, strange and inspired stop-motion films: Ewotu the Conquerer, Drag, and Unheard Evolution.

Animating on the set of Shelf Life.

After graduating from the College of Santa Fe in 2005 Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Mixed Media, she bid a heart-breaking farewell to her dear desert friends and relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where she resides to this day. Abbey spends most of her time creating intricate pen and ink drawings at her drafting table, listening to Al Green, and reading fiction novels. She also enjoys dancing and the television program Lost.

home ... abbey's films ... stop-motion ... 2D ... characters/sets ... clips ... ink drawings ... pencil drawings ... paintings ... computer art ... web design ... about abbey ... email ... links