AnnaNJasinschi

i am anna, a screenwriter/cartoonist/singer and an aspiring animator from the netherlands ♥ my life consists of watching disney movies, drawing cartoon animals , listening to music and eating junkfood i also really need to mention i love drawing a lot, and its my passion. my passion really makes me complete, and i definitely want to stay an artist forever a big dream of mine is to work for cartoon network/disney/dreamworks one day, and i will do whatever i can do reach my goal currently, i am going to an art high school to make my dream of becoming an artist in the usa become possible. so you can probably guess i am a big fan of animated things and movies in general. my favourite movies are the lion king, forrest gump, life of pi, some superhero movies like guardians of the galaxy and many more ! big sucker for gravity falls, adventure time , steven universe and any good show . i am an artist,writer (somewhat), character designer and character developer at the moment, and those are my passions <3 let me do a short introduction of myself : I am one of those kids who has always dreamed about becoming an animator. Making drawings come to life as always been a really amazing thing for me. but i never considered animation as an option. When i was really young and binge watched disney movies daily, i always had in mind there were really few people in the industry, and it was impossible to get in unless you lived near disney studio's. from a very young age, i told been telling myself dreams dont come true the way they do in animated movies. as i grew up, i've wanting to become many things. Illustrator, game designer, writer, singer and so forth. but none of these things really intrigued me as much as animation. why animation over live action movies? because animated characters offer imagery and situations that can only work with animation, and the way i create stories really works with it ! in fact, i had thrown away my dream for becoming a visual artist completely at some point. I had kept telling myself it wouldn't amount to anything, and that i probably wouldn't earn enough to make a living out of. but most important of all: i had moved from the usa to europe, and settled myself in the netherlands. the netherlands isn't very animation focused. in fact, i dont think they have ever created an animated movie. even if i would study animation here, the only job i would be getting is to animate advertisements . however last february, my life set coarse into a completely different direction after the discovery of a website for people that are into animation: animatedbuzz. there i learnt amazing new facts about the industry i never knew, saw animation students work for the first time in my life and discovered something i didn't know was possible: i could become an animator too. all my life, living in the usa again was one of my biggest goals in life. now thanks to this site and various sources, i found out it is in fact POSSIBLE to do the thing i had always wanted from deep inside my heart. but the road ahead of me was granted to be hard from the very day i decided to work on becoming part of the industry. i knew that i would feel frustrated about my artwork, compare myself repetitively to other artists and just need to put lots of effort and heart into it. i also knew i had to create a seperate plan of how i would get back to the us, and pay the tuitons and costs for the entire thing. but every since that day, i have never stopped putting effort into my work. not only intellectually, by working on skills and practising techniques, but also by learning how to show the heart in what i create . however, i figured out lots of people would have started working on their art skills from a pretty young age. here in the netherlands, you dont feel the competition as much in the usa i heard. so i had no idea such people even existed ! ( it came in like a wrecking ball) i felt like it was too late to start becoming an artist, especially in a field filled with such amazing visual people. but nevertheless, i started to take art seriously from february on. i have drawn almost every day, focusing on a new thing every day and looking for new challenges . not only have a grown as an artist, but also as a person and became much stronger. its never too late to start doing something you love! animation is one of the greatest things humans can create through my eyes, and i want to be a part of the people who create these things. one quote i really love is a quote from the rocky franchise: ' it isnt about how hard you hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. how much you can take and keep moving forward' i tell this to myself everytime things get hard. even if i dont believe i can do it and after some time, you really do start to believe in yourself i was so desperate to find motivation when i found our how good the accepted people for calarts were. i told myself it was better to give up, because i would never get there. that it was time to get into reality. but from deep inside, i never wanted to stop. the day i would give up on my dream would never come. i need to promise myself this. my grandmother told me she wanted to go into the film industry, and she couldn't because they were poor and couldn't get where she wanted. my father's former dream was to work in the movie industry and live in the usa. they didn't reach their dream because something stopped them. then my grandmother told me my dream, was her dream too. and i knew what i had to do. this time, someone in the family is going to fucking get there. and when that time comes, i want my grandmother to be there.