About Me

About Me

Hello! My name is Heather Larkin. I am 24 years old, born and raised in Queens, New York. I graduated from Princeton in 2006. In 2007-2008, I taught English in two high schools in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. I am currently living in Hamilton, Ontario and working as a freelance artist and animator.

I am accepting commissions for a variety of multimedia projects:

  • Illustration
  • Web Design
  • Graphic Design (Logos, Newsletters, etc)
  • Flash Animation
  • Flash Interactive Programs

Software: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Painter, Flash, In Design and a variety of other web/graphic software.

Programming languages: HTML/CSS and Flash Actionscript.

Real languages: Advanced Japanese, Functional Spanish, Introductory Swahili

You can download my full resume here.

Contact

Please drop me a line at larkinheather@gmail.com. If you interested in commissioning some project, big or small, please contact me directly at the email above. Once we've started a project, we can communicate via Skype or MSN.

Personal Goals

The desire to create great stories through the medium of animation drives my work every day. I am also passionate about the study of biology, ecology and natural history. Ultimately, I would like to use animation to entertain and, if possible, teach something about science.

Photos

Fun Memories

Being on Japanese TV ..... Having a shark swim underneath me (no cage) ..... Being bitten by a chimpanzee ..... Petting a rhino, a bongo, Plains and Grevy's zebra, a warthog, an ostrich, impala, hedgehog, and a coati ..... Seeing someone skin a marten ..... Seeing two female plains zebra fight over a newborn foal for three minutes ..... Swimming beside a hawksbill turtle ..... Driving a snowmobile in the Canadian Rockies ..... Seeing a giant (4-5 feet) leatherback turtle lay eggs in the beach and return to the sea ..... Eating crocodile and camel ..... Meeting Prince William and having him say to me, "Escuse me, I'm like a vervet monkey" ..... Climbing Mount Fuji ..... Waiting all night to get my Wii ..... Kissing a giraffe ..... Seeing albino zebra .....

Lark in Heather is © Heather Larkin 2007