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10 KEYFRAME A F T E R H O U R S DWA ARTIST FERNANDA ABARCA TAKES THE CAKE WHEN IT COMES TO SCULPTING OUT OF SUGAR Fernanda Abarca has worked as a surfacer at DreamWorks Animation for nearly 12 years, but her creative process isn't finished when she leaves work for the day. That's when she heads home to work on her latest projects for the cake decorating company she runs with her husband, Issac Abarca, a media coordinator at Disney. While now they have a stable of mainly marketing and public relations clients at studios all over town, the first cake Abarca made was for her daughter's 4th birthday. "I started playing with sugar paste and had a lot of fun with it," she says. "It was a lot like Sculpey [clay], but edible, so I started making cakes for their birthday parties, and from there just got hooked." When her daughter's birthday cake was a success, she asked a DreamWorks event coordinator if she could try her hand at making something to celebrate the opening CREATIVE TASTES below: The Sandman gets a sweet makeover; Miniature cakes (opposite) for Trolls: The Beat Goes On "We really try hard to depict the likeness of the character and stay true to who the character is, because of that, and because of our time constraints, we just stick to a few orders a month" By Jean Bentley