Dana Terrace

Dana Terrace is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, producer, and voice actress, who, for Disney, is best known for her work on Gravity Falls and the creator of The Owl House.
==Backgrounds==
Terrace graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York during the spring of 2013 and subsequently moved to Los Angeles, California after getting hired as a storyboard revisionist for Gravity Falls. After finishing work on the show, Terrace became a director of the first season of the rebooted DuckTales series and as a storyboard artist for the Tangled: The Series episode "Challenge of the Brave"..@DanaTerrace worked also on #RapunzelsTangledAdventure S1 as a storyboard artist for the episode Challenge Of The Brave
Aside from executive-producing The Owl House, Terrace also voiced the character Tiny Nose.INTERVIEW: Creator Dana Terrace on Disney’s “The Owl House” She also provided the vocal effects for King's "squeak of rage" in The Owl House episode "Escape of the Palisman", although she was uncredited.Fun fact: that's my voice doin the squeak of rage. Our finest collaboration. 🐁
In addition to this, she has also provided in-house animation for both Gravity Falls and DuckTales. For Gravity Falls, she animated the closing sequence in "Not What He Seems" and Bill Cipher's death in "Weirdmageddon Part 4: Somewhere in the Woods". For DuckTales, she was an additional animator in the episode "Woo-oo!".
Terrace received a "special thanks" credit in the Amphibia episode "The Hardest Thing".
After the production of The Owl House ended, Terrace left Disney after years of collaboration.
==Roles==
Tiny Nose.png|Tinella "Tiny Nose" Nosa(The Owl House)
The Owl House 39.png|King(The Owl House; "squeak rage" only)
==Trivia==
*A background character in the Gravity Falls episode "The Stanchurian Candidate" is based off of her and two other members of staff.
*The Tiny Nose character is based on Dana's self caricature.
**The character also bears some similarities to The Little Man (also known as Big Nose) from The Pink Panther cartoons.
*She is the sixth woman to create a series for Disney Television Animation after Sue Rose (Pepper Ann), Chris Nee (Doc McStuffins), Daron Nefcy (Star vs. the Forces of Evil), Krista Tucker (Fancy Nancy), and Nicole Dubuc (The Rocketeer).
*On September 25, 2018, Terrace came out as bisexual.Our 20 Favorite Posts in Honor of Sunday’s #BiVisibilityDay 2018 On August 8, 2020, Terrace said that featuring LGBT characters in The Owl House helped her to come out to her friends and family in 2017, a year before coming out publicly.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! 🦉 🌈
*Amity's palisman, Ghost, is based on Dana's real-life cat.
*In The Owl House episode "Reaching Out", Luz's father is shown to have passed away when she was little. Similarly, Dana's own father, Thomas Terrace, died when she was eleven.
==Gallery==
The Owl House art 1.png|Artwork by Dana Terrace
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S2e14 Gravity Falls writers cameo.jpg|Character based off of Terrace (on the left)
Dana and Wendie with a Eda cosplayer.jpg|Dana and Wendie Malick with an Eda cosplayer
Lumity Dana Terrace.jpg|Lumity artwork
Lumity Beach Day.jpg
Young Eda and Lilith artwork by Dana Terrace.jpg
Eda art by Dana Terrace.jpg
Lilith art by Dana Terrace.jpg
Owl House Season 1B - Drawing by Dana Terrace.jpg
Follies at the Coven Day Parade - Dana Terrace sketch.png|"Follies at the Coven Day Parade" sketch
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Follies at the Coven Day Parade Dana Terrace promo 2.jpg|"Follies at the Coven Day Parade" promo art
Elsewhere and Elsewhen promo art by Dana Terrace.jpg|"Elsewhere and Elsewhen" promo art
Any Sport in a Storm promo art by Dana Terrace.jpg|"Any Sport in a Storm" promo art
Reaching Out promo art by Dana Terrace.jpg|"Reaching Out" promo art
Them's the Breaks, Kid - Dana Terrace promo.png|"Them's the Breaks, Kid" promo art
Hollow Mind - Dana Terrace promo.png|"Hollow Mind" promo art
Edge of the World - Dana Terrace promo.png|"Edge of the World" promo art
Labyrinth Runners promo art - Dana Terrace.jpg|"Labyrinth Runners" promo art
Clouds on the Horizon promo art by Dana Terrace.png|"Clouds on the Horizon" promo art
King's Tide promo art by Dana Terrace.png|"King's Tide" promo art
King's Tide promo art by Dana Terrace 2.jpg|"...what now?"
Season 2 Disney+ promo by Dana Terrace.jpg
S3 NYCC Promo art made by Dana.jpg|Season 3 promo art
Thanks to Them Promo Art by Dana Terrace.jpg|"Thanks to Them" promo art
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FTF Countdown 1 (Dana Terrace).jpg
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Watching and Dreaming poster.jpg|"Watching and Dreaming" poster
==References==
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Category:LGBTQ+ people