Intro to DMA

Hello everyone, my name is Emma Slavin-Hall. I'm a freshman and am an animation major and I can't wait to learn and try all the different styles and skills that the animation department has to offer.

To start off I'm 19 years old and I'm the eldest of 8+ children (8+ because I don't know if there are any more children that my had before our after my two half brothers), 6 of them are my half siblings and one is fully blood related. I live with my grandma and sister on a farm in Harvard, Illinois.  My parents were never married when my sister and i were born, so when I was almost two my dad left after my sister was born and I only heard from him once a few years ago. My mom married her husband when I was three? My sister and I lived with them for a sorry while and during that time he would abuse my sister and I and sometimes  would lock us up in our room our in a closet. It was then that my mom made the decision to let us live with our grandma. We live a happy life now. while I was growing up I always watched the Disney movies, listened to music, and read fairytales as a way to escape from reality and I was always amazed with how the fairytales would be told through the animation. Some of the movies that interested me was Beauty and the Beast, The Corpse Bride, and now Frozen. What made me want to go into animation? I went to an art camp a few years ago for a week and took an animation class to try. By the end of the week I was in love with animation and I lived making something so simple come to life from clay or on paper. I've made a few animated short films since then, but I hope to get improve and learn more techniques while I'm in Animation classes and in the next four years. I hope to get to know all of you and have many fun conversations about movies and T.V. shows together.