Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Dyson: Morning Routine

A spec spot for Dyson that follows one woman through a morning at home. Each Dyson product comes into her routine as part of the choreography rather than as a chore.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Chobani: Tradition and Craft

A spec spot for Chobani that tells the story of Greek yogurt across generations.


I wrote the script and directed the design, animation, and edit.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Leela of Lemuria

Alongside her shapeshifting friend Koa and wise sea turtle mentor Mātua Pacific, a young ocean guardian named Leela learns that becoming a true protector of the ocean means not only caring for the environment but also understanding how her emotions and actions affect everyone around her.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Baku’s Break

 Cursed to live as a totally “normal” tween boy named Baku, a once-legendary dragon, must navigate the endless humiliation of middle school while fighting ancient monsters and deities alongside a local surfer girl and a salty seagull.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Mini Spies Sizzle

I directed the one-minute pitch sizzle for Mini Spies using a generative AI workflow to bring the world’s sleek spy style and comic energy to the screen.

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Consultant Michaela Ternasky-Holland Consultant Michaela Ternasky-Holland

MoMI x TAICCA 2026 Partnership

Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) have embarked on a new three-year partnership dedicated to bringing the cutting edge of Taiwanese moving image art and technology to New York City.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Echoes of Legend

This short form animated series is inspired by Southeast Asian mythology and contains nine episodes.

Set in a crumbling empire ruled by a singular god, the story follows a poor boy named Tooth as he uncovers a dangerous connection to long-forgotten powers.

With this shift of power forces arise that could either save the empire or tear it apart.

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Consultant Michaela Ternasky-Holland Consultant Michaela Ternasky-Holland

territory

Created by Kinetic Light and Double Eye Studios, territory is the first aesthetically accessible VR headset experience of its kind. The project explores how the technology of barbed wire connects and disconnects humans, their environment, and each other.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Morning Light

Morning Light is a reimagining of this ancient practice where visitors can have their tea leaves interpreted and read aloud by artificial intelligence.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

The Christmas Recipe

A heartwarming animated short film, where Maya’s Christmas surprise spirals out of control when her siblings improvise. Will they salvage their holiday magic before it goes up in smoke?

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos

This Museum of the Moving Image exhibit explores the late 1980s and 1990s, and how skateboard teams harnessed inexpensive, widely accessible video equipment to record and share limit-pushing tricks performed on stairs, benches, and other skate-able elements of public architecture.


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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Nakenaghch’ sutdu’a

Nakenaghch’ sutdu’a “Our traditional legacy, stories of our history” is an exhibition curated by the Alaska Native Heritage Center. The exhibit features a virual reality experience that highlights the subsistence practices of the Dena’ina people of Dgheyey kaq’, or what is now known as Anchorage.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Thank you, mom

In "Thank you, mom" a narrative short film, the audience peers into the life story of a woman through a series of journal entries. Each entry captures a pivotal moment, as she grows up in the wake of her father's death and her mother's effort to rebuild their lives. As she navigates the emotional landscape of grief, abandonment, and admission, her words come to life and create scenes shaped by both sorrow and hope. From the innocence of childhood to the complexities of adulthood, the film poignantly explores themes of family trauma and self-healing.

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Consultant Michaela Ternasky-Holland Consultant Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Body of Mine

Body of Mine is a powerful, award-winning virtual reality (VR) experience that invites users to step into the body of another gender, and connect intimately to the stories of transgender individuals.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Reimagined Volume III: Young Thang

Concealed within a flat world of insects where humans are forbidden, a young girl, Young Thang, must embrace her full self to save The Community she loves from a storm of her own creation.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Kapwa

Kapwa is not only a visceral representation of our struggle to understand what is truly Filipino culture but also a demonstration of the inquiry itself.

The installation uses generative AI to imagine elements of culture and history that are missing. Kapwa shows us images that feel familiar, but are ultimately false: prosthetic versions of irretrievable lost artifacts.

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Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland Creator Michaela Ternasky-Holland

Reimagined Volume II: Mahal

In the wake of their all-powerful father's demise, four sibling deities must confront their underlying grief in order to save the earth and each other from a peril caused by their own anger.

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