Neal Hanson
I owe a lot to my grandmother for the direction my life is currently sailing. I
will never forget resting on the kitchen floor while she translated the white-on-blue
text of Final Fantasy IIIto a six-year-old Neal. Ever since those days, I at least thought, I was in love with playing video games like any other young brat that had a wealth of time on his or her hands, which depleted all too soon. Not until recently was it realized that what I was really in love with was visual story telling. Life put simply might be said to be a collection of experiences influenced by other experiences. It later became apparent that it was the experiences of finely crafted combinations of immersive plots, intriguing characters, rich environments and music attracting me to these games; a combination with the ability to take even the superficial concepts to super-official. The careful collaboration of these arts is truly capable of breathing life into what would otherwise only be imagined, and that is clearly an incredible concept. Luckily for me, these imagined world's foundations are built up of not only ideas but a lot of drawings supporting them; and drawing and or concept art has always excited me from an early age. Quite honestly I never could envision myself making anything else out of my career but it was unclear, until lately, what it was that could be made with it. "Now that I have a heading, I need only to keep alive to travel the charts"...Jack. Speaking of keeping alive; I am currently attending Digipen Institute of Technology and am entering my junior year in pursuit of a BFA in Production Animation in hopes to nab a solid job as a concept artist after graduation. Fortunately I will have the consistent masterpiece works of Pixar, Miyazaki and words of Captain Barbossa to fuel and inspire me along the ride. "For certain, ye have to be lost to find a place that can't be found. Else ways, everyone would know where it was." – Captain Hector Barbossa If you would like to contact this student please e-mail Cassandra Town
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