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As a child I did nothing but draw and animation and the characters within fascinated me. The shows and movies I watched inspired me to create more art and stories, featuring both characters from the shows and my own. As I grew older I found individuals online creating and posting their own animations and I realized that was a real job I could have. I've been working towards that goal ever since.

I'm heavily inspired by traditional 2D animation and mixed media (Otomo's Akira, The Ozmo English Show) and underground comics (Fruitopia, Mortis Ghost's Dr Cataclysm).

As a kid, I was scolded so many times for leaving the dinner table to catch the newest couch sequence from the Simpsons. Baby me always wanted to be apart of this world, and I couldn't be happier to be working towards that reality today.

When I got my first payment from YouTube after working on stop motion animation for three years.

I've always had a deep passion for art and sports. I fell in love with animation and visual storytelling at a young age, which propelled my growth as an artist throughout the years. I decided to combine everything I loved with my skill-set, and I arrived at pursuing a career in motion graphics.

Making art and telling stories has been my passion my entire life.

I found out early in life. Being born in the 90's, I saw the birth of the PS1 and Pixar, and that immediately caught my interest. Being a 3D artist, those early encounters solidified my love for cinema, visual culture, and technology.

When I was 8 years old, I made a stop motion with my Sonic toys using an old VHS camera. When I was 10, I learned how to animate using MS Paint and primitive editing programs. When I was 12, I animated my first short film. When I was 16, I started taking classes on animation. When I was 18, I enrolled in art school to get my BFA. It's just a part of me to create with great people and to have fun doing it. It's all I remember truly loving from childhood up until now and it's all I'll ever need.

When I was young I was really in love with the animated bumpers in between segments on sesame street. A lot of these were experimental works or just cute little shorts of characters in fun settings. I really wanted to make work like that.

I've been watching cartoons all my life, as I'm sure many people here have. Throughout the years I've practiced several different forms of animation and storytelling. I've given just about everything a try, but 2D animation is where I feel most fun and excitement. I somehow find immense enjoyment from sitting in front of the computer for hours on end making funny little characters move and hurt each other.

I've been watching cartoons and making doodles as long as I can remember. But I decided to learn animation when I watched artists online posting their own animated content. Tiny child me thought, "I wanna do that!" And now I'm here.

I self-taught myself Blender 3D when I was around 12 or 13 years old, but it never occurred to me that 3D was what I really wanted to do though until I was a few years into my animation degree when I learned ZBrush!

I have been creating art and in turn characters for as long as I can remember. It became a sort of escape for me as a child as I have face many road blocks due to various health issues. I would use my stories as a way to play pretend with just myself, and as I've grown I’ve used my stories and characters to share important messages with others. I know first hand how important it is to know you're not alone and I want others to feel seen through my work.

I realized I wanted to work in the creative industry when I noticed I could sit at a computer for hours in order to create something. When I can envision an idea, I sometimes won't leave the computer until it's done.

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I first realized I wanted to work in the creative industries when I took up drawing in high school. I knew then I wanted to entertain an audience with my work and spread messages with my art through my career. While drawing is still a part of my process I now focus on computer generated visual effects.

Some time in later high school. I had been enamored with youtube animations for years and had been long inspired to do my own, and along the way I learned how much I loved it.

I always knew I wanted to do work involving art, but not until sophomore year did I narrow down the desire to work in the entertainment industry.

I always had a passion for cartoons and animation. When I stopped finding enjoyment in anything relating to engineering or math I decided to pursue my passion and become an animator.

Ever since I learned it could be a job really. I have been raised on animation and film all my life so it's always had a special place in my heart from a very young age. Then, when I was about ten years old, my brother went off to college to learn to be an industrial designer (at the same school I go to now as well). Once I realized there was such a thing as an art school, I knew that's where I wanted to go. Needless to say, I have been on this journey for a long time.

Really ever since I remember, I have always been obsessed with creating visual stories. Although, it was not until late in high school that I realized that game design was the path I wanted to take. The world of interactive narratives seemed like one with endless possibilities and I knew it was one that I wanted to be a part of.

I first realized I wanted to go into a creative field when I learned about Industrial Design in 11th grade. It seemed like a perfect fit for the analytical and creative parts of my brain. Looking back at childhood, I was always much more interested in project-based things. This ranged from building with Legos to building models with my grandfather to 9th-grade science projects like building a hot air balloon out of tissue paper and learning how the design and shape created better lift.

When I realized that animation held the power to make education exciting, I knew that I wanted to follow a path that could combine my love of learning with my artistic skills.

When I was a junior in high school I shadowed a graphic designer at Progressive and realized I could make a living doing art for a career, after that, I never turned back.