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Since I was a child. My after school (and preschool) I spent time at art classes and I couldn't see myself in another field

I remember when with my friends we started game jam for the first time. A wonderful, nostalgic memory. In that very moment I knew what I wanted to do next.

I've always loved playing games as a child. I've dreamed about making games myself, but this goal was somewhat forgotten when I was growing up, and under influence of my grandfather I wanted to be an engineer. But by the end of high school I've realised that art and games are things I truly love, and that's when my journey began.

When I first saw concept art from Mass Effect as a 10/11 year old girl, I instantly became excited about the possibility to imagine alien worlds in such a beautiful way. Since then, I had developed some other interests, briefly studied pharmacy, but then I realized I want to entwine my life with art. I enrolled in Graphic Design, since there were no game-related degrees in my city back then, and during my 3rd year developed an interest in 3D art.

In 2019 a year after graduating from high school I decided to leave my architecture course to pursue animation/film.

during high school I'd say, drawing and creating was all I wanted to do but I felt pretty lost in how I was going to create a living out of that and then one day I came across animation, it just kind of then came to me "oh yea... that's a job right?" you'd think growing up and enjoying cartoons so much would make that thought a 'no brainer' but until then I hadn't given it any real thought.

As a person who ware always around art it was always aboard to work in the creative media.

When I was learning graphics in high school. really lit a spark for 3D

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When I starded my college in Game Design.

When I was young, I loved making characters and stories with illustrations and sometimes animations. I love watching cartoons and animated movies and I really hope I will be able to work in this field, but I know that it takes a lot of work to get there.

I started to gain interest in creative media when i was in middle school. It started out as a hobby of doing very rough sketches of comic book and video games characters during class, but unfortunately as i couldn't attended any sort of creative based class because of how Vietnam's educational system works so i mostly learn doing drawing by myself. I'm now currently doing Design stream for the Foundation program at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Might have happened 5 or 6 years ago when I first played Call of Duty 4 and it was awesome. Might be considered generic now but back then it was a great game with mind breaking features. I remember playing Dragon Age Origins and loving every bit of it. I spent hours upon hours on DotA 2. I can never do that for books or film, they are not immersive enough, not addicting, not good enough.

Whilst travelling overseas I was doing so much stuff I love and it questioned me why I wasn't doing the same back home. Buy always having a love for design, it was to go back into study, in particular something I have always had a passion for.

In middle school, after watching a certain animated movie, I decided to make it my life goal to get into the entertainment industry, to be a part of that amazingly creative and exciting process.