While there she drew for about eight hours a day, and began posting work to her Tumblr blog.
Terrace studied animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She attended Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, Connecticut, In 2000, she created her first flip-book animation, which focused on ' Pikachu thundershocking a Charmander.' Terrace was a dancer for 10 years. Princess Mononoke, Studio Ghibli films, and Garfield influenced her as well.
As a child, she watched cartoons like The Powerpuff Girls, South Park, and The Simpsons, inspiring her later works. Rita School, a local Catholic School, gaining an interest in painters such as John Bauer, Remedios Varo, and Hieronymus Bosch.
