Animation to me is the study of like movement.
And I love capturing the, the life in a pose
and in an action by purely
what comes out of your imagination.
That stuff blows me away.
You can bring people hope with, uh, animation,
bring them laughter, smiles.
You can share personal experiences.
It's really powerful stuff.
A world without art would be very bland.
I think the concept of creating something that didn't exist
before is very interesting.
Throughout my entire childhood,
it was just like always movies
and then those were the just like my happy place I guess.
But I always knew that there was someone
out there making this.
If I did do this, I would not get bored
'cause it would always be something new and something better
and something more advanced.
One of my favorite things about being a Francis Auto
student is gotta be the community in the classroom.
I really love that aspect.
You're hard pressed to find a group of individuals so
inspired and dedicated by the same things you are
unless you come to, uh, a classroom setting such as this.
Everybody starts off at the special effects technician level
and that starts you off learning Adobe.
The Adobe Creative Suite
First we started with just Photoshop Illustrator,
premier After Effects, just like basic 2D
and just understanding how film works.
And once you move on from that,
they let you get into Maya.
Whether you're a 3D model
or an animator determines where you'll go from there,
but everybody starts in the same uh, project.
I think it really does a really good base for
what you need to know here.
You kind of realize that it's not
as straightforward as you would think.
It's a lot more complicated and there's like so many steps
and so many people are responsible for this single step
and you kind of figure out what you're good at.
Our instructors are very knowledgeable
in, in what we're working in.
They have a lot of professional experience
and they come from the industry
and that's, it's really helpful.
There are a lot of things I wouldn't be able
to do if my instructor hadn't helped me through it.
Our, our instructor is very kind, very patient
and he's always checking up on us,
making sure if we ever have any trouble,
he's right there and ready to help us.
My teachers help me make resumes
and like, help me enter into competitions
so I can have something to put on my resume.
Francis Tuttle makes sure
that you are set up in that next step.
They guide you through it.
They hook you up with internships
because they themselves have friends in the industry.
They, they know people and so that's very, very helpful.
My big goal is to bring the entertainment industry to
Oklahoma because I wanna help bring the arts
and build that here.
I wanna be able to create something that is beyond me,
so I wanna be able to create something that when I'm gone
it's, it's still happening.
Everybody loves to escape the normal day.
Creativity allows us to do that.