“For as long as I can remember, I have been learning about art and how it works. I remember lots of childhood days spent piling up sticky-pad notes or the corners of notebooks to create my own animations. At an early age, I also began appreciating the Looney Tunes and Disney collections of cartoons. To this day, I am amazed by those early pioneers and how they were able to produce animations that rival much of what we see in pop culture today.”