Here you see our long standing patient Ms. Melanie Walas, who makes our "Comes From Afar" box in our Newsletter with her trek from the East Bay. She collects vintage clothing and kooky accessories and always has amazing outfits, as you can see with the beautiful pink coat that she made.
One of her early projects was making costumes for puppets for the stop-motion animation films JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and MONKEYBONE. She has worked for ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) and other companies for many years as a model maker/painter. She has painted spaceships, ships and sets for such films as STAR WARS(I - III), PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN(I-II), SPACE COWBOYS, WAR OF WORLDS, GALAXY QUEST, STARSHIP TROOPERS and THE MATRIX(II-III). More recently, she has been working as a digital painter at ILM, painting robots for TRANSFORMERS (II-III) and buildings and props for the movie RANGO.
Her current projects are top secret until they come out, but we're always excited to see what she's been up to!
We enjoy her dental visits, as we enjoy seeing all of our multi-talented, and dear patients. Go Melanie! See you in the Movies!
