Why Animation?

I have always been quite keen on media and visual arts. I was first immersed into the visual art form of comics in the early 90's when a comic book publisher decided to kill the man of steel, the most powerful man on earth, and crippled the best detective in the world, a man dressed in a bat suit. I was so attracted and interested on the stories and the characters that I got completely hooked by them. I started to read all kinds of comic books and comic strips. Then the animation magic broke into my world with an animated series about the most dazzling character of them all, Batman: TAS. The art style of the series, the story, the action, the drama and mostly the characters moving, blew my mind away. It was already awesome to read about him, so it was then marvelous and stupendous to see him come to life. I enjoyed every single episode of that series and I develop a passion excitement and delight from the animated art. I had always been fond of animated features, but there was something different about them by that time and that was my whole appreciation for them. I saw them as a form of art and craft, a mean of expression rather that purely entertainment.

By 1996, Toy Story was hitting the theaters of the town I grew up. I remember being there and watching it on the theater, I remember the adventure and thrill it gave me and I remember wanting to see it over and over again.

Animation hit me hard at that point, but the opportunity to go for it was not in my hands at that time. I had never stopped being enthused or interested about animation ever since. I have kept on enjoying all those films and many other more. I have learned of many techniques of animation and have built up a love for most all of them as traditional animation, stop motion, computer animation pop into my eyes. I have tasted the technique of stop motion and 3D animation and I know now, I feel now the need to pursue this dream; the dream to become an animator and to be able to touch the people's hearts as many have touched mine. I want to bring all my imagination back to life. I want to be able to communicate, share my ideas dreams and illusions through animation. I want to make people feel, think, laugh or cry. I have always wanted to be able to speak to the world, to be heard and to teach something to the current and future generations. So now, I'm going for it. Maybe in a few years I can begin to turn into an animator.