Personal Narrative: Being A Disney Animator

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One of the earliest memory I have as a child was seeing Beauty and the Beast for the first time. That, for whatever reason, enchanted me. It was then I decided that I wanted to be an artist in some way, shape or form. I originally wanted to be a Disney animator because my affinity for drawing. I remember that I would recreate Glen Keane's animation in "The Little Mermaid" and I would, as hard as possible, to imitate his and many of the Disney artists' drawing styles.

As I became a teenager, my world opened up beside Disney. Because of The Little Mermaid: The Musical, it opened my world to the world of theater. At first, it was commercial theater, like Disney musicals and the likes. But as I matured, I fell in love with musicals from Andrew

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