With the end of a decade and the start of the new one, I began to reflect on my journey in animation and how far it has taken me. In 2010, I was drawing comics for my school newspaper for $10 a comic… dreaming about someday seeing my characters move, being able to animate and potentially work in television and share my art with everyone. Over this past decade, I’ve been able to see and enjoy the fruits of my labor and be able to work in the industry. I tried to boil down my journey through the years with all the highs and lows below:

Continuing from Pt. 2 of my post, I was in the waiting to hear back about my test for Let’s Go Luna. It was a couple weeks after I turned it in when Luccy emailed me…. I found out I made it on the short list for interviews!

My friends Michael and Luccy were the ones who told me how much they loved living in LA and coached me on how to get my portfolio ready and apply to jobs. They both were already working on TV shows and I knew that’s where I wanted to be.

It’s hard to believe that we’ve already been in Los Angeles for 5 months now! I got my first animation job as a storyboard artist on Joe Murray’s show Let’s Go Luna for PBS. It’s been such a whirlwind of a transition (from moving to starting the full time job) that I’m now ready to write about my journey into the field! I’m breaking it up into 4 parts because it’s honestly too much for one post!