00:05Hi, I'm Ara Santos here at the Art Show and Anime Expo, and this is Haku from Spirited
00:11Away, a dragon I made for the art show.
00:13What is it actually made of?
00:15What are we actually seeing here?
00:17It's a seven-foot sculpture made out of paper mache and coated with drywall chaos paint.
00:23When people think of dragons like in Game of Thrones, smog from Lord of the Rings, is
00:28there a difference between Western interpretations of dragons and Eastern dragons or dragons that
00:33come from China and East Asia?
00:35Yes, yes.
00:35Eastern Asian dragons usually have this long serpentine body and kind of like deer ant-like
00:43horns and long whiskers.
00:46Is it not common for Eastern dragons to do fire breathing or is that more of a Western
00:51idea?
00:53Actually, I'm not sure about that, but for this character, he does not breathe fire.
01:00He does not breathe fire.
01:01He's just a spirit.
01:02But they're more serpentine like that?
01:04Yes.
01:05Long body like a snake and deer-like ants.
01:07Yes.
01:08Why do you think the deer ant-like part?
01:09Is that just from tradition?
01:11I think it's just a mixture of animals, like their feet are mostly like from chicken, like
01:21a chicken feet.
01:23And yeah, their body is like a serpent and their faces are more canine-like, like a dog.
01:30Yes.
01:30A dog.
01:31Wow.
01:31Okay.
01:32And what were you doing here with the giveaway?
01:33Yes.
01:34I was doing a giveaway.
01:36Anyone who follows me on Instagram likes five posts and comments, the password will answer
01:43the giveaway.
01:43And it's a Spirited Way art book.
01:46Okay.
01:47It's the, yes.
01:48Well, maybe I may have to, you know, follow all that, all that has to do and try to see
01:52if I can win that, okay?
01:53Okay.
01:54Thank you very much.
01:55Bye.
01:56See, you're holding out.
01:57See, I didn't even know it's lighting up.
01:59See, I got a video that's lighting up.
02:00Sorry about that.
02:01See, you're just holding back the dragon.
02:02I'm sorry.
02:04It was.
02:04All that extra stuff, girl.
02:06You brought all the lights.
02:06I know I took time to do all that.
02:07You got to even turn it on and stuff, you know?
02:10But that looks nice.
02:11How long did it take you to do this from start to finish?
02:14About a month.
02:15A month?
02:15Yes.
02:16It was a school project.
02:17Cal State, LA.
02:18Okay.
02:18Yes.
02:19And you took one design or you took multiple designs?
02:22I'm an animation major.
02:24So I want to become an animator.
02:25Yes.
02:26I need you working for Disney.
02:27Maybe they need you for there.
02:28That would be awesome.
02:29That would be great.
02:30Yeah.
02:30Okay.
