Follow Your Joy

"In my first animation class, I fell in love and knew that was the path I wanted to take. It was my junior year before I had to sign up for classes that I literally ran into a door that had a flyer for a puppet-making course. I took a graduate-level course, and I was an undergrad. That was my introduction to stop motion animation specifically, and that was when I 100% knew that was the direction I wanted to go. I was the most motivated. I did every assignment, made my puppet from beginning to end, and just loved it. All of this part of my purpose, because it was rooted in my passion, was very easy. The steps kind of laid themselves out."