What is the biggest misconception people have about storyboarding? I feel like we both have the same attitude for a lot of things. This is difficult to really pinpoint, but I relate a lot with Toph from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Which animated character do you most identify with now? I never get tired of watching and rewatching it every so often. The shows that really influenced me are all across the map, but Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the biggest. Were there any animated characters and shows that inspired you when you were younger? Work is important, but if you’re dead you’re never going to be able to make the work that you want to. Doing this was even encouraged by a lot of people that I looked up to. While I was in school I took as many freelance jobs as I could-on top of being a student-and I gave myself so many lifelong health issues that I still deal with today. One of the things I wish I knew sooner was that you shouldn’t kill yourself over work. What lesson about working professionally as an artist do you wish you had learned sooner than you did? Good draftsmanship is essential to my job, and the fact that we went over foundational drawing skills helped me immensely. The Foundation year of Otis was the most helpful for me, personally. In what ways did Otis prepare you for your professional life? I saw the pictures of storyboard artists pitching their boards for the movie and thought, “I want to do that!” Storyboarding and animating have always been huge goals of mine, and I never looked back. I’ve actually known what I’ve wanted to do for a very long time-I think in the 5th grade I watched a behind-the-scenes of Cinderella on the platinum edition DVD. When you started at Otis College, did you know specifically what you wanted to do professionally when you graduated? Soon after, I got the call that they wanted me on the team, and I jumped at the chance immediately. I thought, “I’d love to work on something like that one day.” It turns out that Owen Dennis, the showrunner and creator of Infinity Train, had been a fan of my work for a while, and, when the time came, they called me up for an interview. I remember the pilot came out in 2016-while I was still in school-and I was so excited about it. I was on Craig of the Creek as a storyboard revisionist for roughly two years, and I was already a huge fan of Infinity Train before that. My job as a storyboard artist on Infinity Train actually came as a surprise.

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