I actually applied for the Office Manager position at Doublefine, but I didn’t know much about video games and I didn’t get the job. But they liked me well enough to recommend me for the job at Animation Mentor. AM was so small that I didn’t even know what position I was interviewing for! Luckily, they put me in the Admissions Advisor role and the rest is history!

I’m the Admissions Advisor—basically once someone applies until they start classes, I’m the person who helps everyone along. I’ve seen at least 1700 people graduate; it’s pretty exciting to be part of so many people’s dreams.

I had been attending ITT Techinical Institute for Digital Entertainment and Game Design but I felt that the program wasn’t all that I thought it would be. It was very broad in what I was being taught and I felt like a lot of my questions weren’t being answered. Then during my winter break in 2008 I started doing research on 3d animation and Animation Mentor was the first link to come up and I was just floored by their collection of student showcases.

Ahhh, my family away from my real family, haha. I found out about the Eager Beavers through the AM forums. I was cruising the campus trying to soak in whatever I could when I ran across a post which was letting everyone know that a facebook group had been made for spring and summer term students. I believe I was the 46th Eager Beaver to join.

I attended this basic maya course a while back and someone mentioned it. I signed up to their newsletter and was amazed. I kept the idea in the drawer for a while ( a few years actually!) until I realised it was the way to go.

Ahh how we have grown! I heard about it form the AM forum, It was either you or Jarrod who added me, I can’t remember, I think I was around number 17 or something.

I had finally made up my mind that I was going to go back to school to become a Animator. For the most part I was torn between going to the Art institute or the Academy of Art, but was still having a hard time figuring out which way to go. Both were way beyond my budget and took way longer than I wanted but they seemed like my only real options. During my research to figure out which one I was going to attend I came across a website that listed the top 10 online animation schools and I was just skimming the list seeing all the same schools I had already come across in my research when I noticed one that I had not seen before. Animation Mentor, what the heck is that? I had never heard of it so I checked it out. The more I read the more it intrigued me.

Well I met Pascal almost immediately after applying to AM and getting on the forums, he had the brilliant Idea to start a Facebook Group. Of course then it was just called Animation Mentor and there was like 3 of us, I loved the idea so much I kind of got carried away scouring the forums for other classmates to add to the group