Growing up drawing my whole life, my main career path I assumed would end up being fashion design, and that all changed in my middle school animation class when I saw Cartoon Saloon's 'The Secret of Kells.' Our teacher passed around character design sheets, the first I had ever seen, and I realized I wanted far more to design the person wearing the clothes rather than jsut the clothes themselves. My love for storytelling and artwork went hand in hand as I continued creating characters and stories through my school years, and into Univercity when I majored in art, and recieved my Bachelors in 2021, graduating Summa Cum Laude. My professors and friends truly fueling my love for animation production and character design more and more each year. I currently illustrate for an Armenian American children's book series teaching children their native language through nursery rhymes, and continually apply for jobs within animation, with the hopes to create characters in shows and films that inspire kids the same they they inspired me when I was young.