Throughout my youth, I always had a desire to create, typically through art and drawing. I aspired to be a graphic designer out of high school. During my years in southern France, I saw a trailer for the release of the Pixar movie “Inside Out”. In this trailer, scenes from past Pixar movies were shown that had characters express different emotions. Times of sadness, joy, anger, and happiness. This stood out to me because those were the exact emotions I felt when watching those scenes when I was a child, even if I were to watch them today. Since watching that trailer, I knew I wanted to become a character animator, to bring characters to life and make the audience feel certain emotions. For the last 6 years, I’ve pursued an education to reach my goal of becoming an animator through private mentorship, the Animation and Game Development Program at Utah Valley University, and Animation Mentor courses. I hope to soon be able to achieve my goal of becoming and Animator in the gaming industry.I’m married to my beautiful wife, and I’m a father to a gorgeous daughter. I love Japanese import classics, and enjoy watching animated films.