Biography

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               What first caught my attention into the field of animation/illustration had started when I took the spring high school program in Academy of Arts during my tenth grade. I was given a college brochure that sparked my interests by seeing different forms of Arts from fashion, interior decorating, and car/motorcycle design and so on that is full of colors. It introduced me to the fact that people’s imagination and concept can be translated into real life that someday can be seen in a magazine or in a film. The following year, I went back to the Academy of Art for summer class. I took comic book illustration class. Some of my classmates were in animation class as well. They introduced me to Hayao Miyazaki films, and during that time, his film “Howl’s Moving Castle” was showing and it sparked an interest in the animation field. Comic book class tied to my interest, just to be able to illustrate and create a storyboarding for my own stories really excite me. The short comic was based on my own fantasy story: I have not written a story like others would in a long form like novel, but I did in as collaboration in detailed drawings of event by event scene of the world and story that I had created in my mind since I was fifteen. That Academy of Art was one experience that I enjoyed the most and that triggers me into going further with my desire to pursue a career in animation/illustration field.

 

               The Art classes I have been taking at UC Davis have opened up my senses to art world even more. I had acquired the ability to sense that art around me, like the textures and details of the concrete floor, which can inspire an idea I a future painting. In my sculpture class, I recently had a project that got me involved in working on a team project, where we had to create a ten foot cardboard structure, designed to not tip over when pushed. My experience in working as a team gave me a taste of how it might be working with different people, designing, collaborating and making decisions.