About Me
Artist statements have never come naturally to me; I feel torn between writing what I think an audience would want to hear and the truth. The truth is that I don’t always know why I make the art I make, but animation makes me feel happy, alive, and part of something bigger than myself. It’s how I process and connect with the world. Communication has always been my biggest struggle, but when I’m animating, I’m able to create characters that can truly connect with others in the way I’ve so rarely been able to.
I’m endlessly inspired by the animation renaissance the film world is experiencing. For so long, both animated films and video games pushed toward hyper-realism in an attempt to emulate reality. But now, there is a push toward remembering animation history and reviving what people love about it: that it’s not a replication of reality, but an exaggeration of it that can be used to connect with an audience on a deeper level than realism ever could. I want to interact with gamers in new and deeper ways by bringing that perspective to the game world.
Sometimes I get scared that my reason for pursuing animation is too simple, and that there should be some deep, disastrous, life-altering reason why I want to do animation and nothing but animation. But I honestly don’t know what altered my brain chemistry to want to move around models all day long; I just know that I need to. Believe me, I’ve tried to be satisfied with other careers, but I was never able to find satisfaction. I found myself animating in my free time, and that made me happy. It brings me purpose, and I want to keep doing it.
So maybe it’s that simple. I animate because it makes me happy. I love pushing myself, my poses, and my lines of action to the extreme. I can turn lifeless models into something people can empathize with. I get to break the laws of reality and communicate feelings through images and motions instead of words. It gives me the opportunity to share my passion for animation history and honor the animators before me in every project I work on. It gives me the opportunity to connect with people like me, my loved ones, and people from all backgrounds by giving them diverse characters they feel seen by, especially when they haven’t felt seen before. And, most importantly, I love that animating lets me communicate with others in a way that makes me feel finally understood.
And I promise that, if you follow my work, you will see that love in each and every piece I create.
I’m endlessly inspired by the animation renaissance the film world is experiencing. For so long, both animated films and video games pushed toward hyper-realism in an attempt to emulate reality. But now, there is a push toward remembering animation history and reviving what people love about it: that it’s not a replication of reality, but an exaggeration of it that can be used to connect with an audience on a deeper level than realism ever could. I want to interact with gamers in new and deeper ways by bringing that perspective to the game world.
Sometimes I get scared that my reason for pursuing animation is too simple, and that there should be some deep, disastrous, life-altering reason why I want to do animation and nothing but animation. But I honestly don’t know what altered my brain chemistry to want to move around models all day long; I just know that I need to. Believe me, I’ve tried to be satisfied with other careers, but I was never able to find satisfaction. I found myself animating in my free time, and that made me happy. It brings me purpose, and I want to keep doing it.
So maybe it’s that simple. I animate because it makes me happy. I love pushing myself, my poses, and my lines of action to the extreme. I can turn lifeless models into something people can empathize with. I get to break the laws of reality and communicate feelings through images and motions instead of words. It gives me the opportunity to share my passion for animation history and honor the animators before me in every project I work on. It gives me the opportunity to connect with people like me, my loved ones, and people from all backgrounds by giving them diverse characters they feel seen by, especially when they haven’t felt seen before. And, most importantly, I love that animating lets me communicate with others in a way that makes me feel finally understood.
And I promise that, if you follow my work, you will see that love in each and every piece I create.
