I spiced up the graphics for the thumbnail, but everything you see below is the genuine work of a 7-year-old Seth. 

I recently moved to a new house. Now that I finally have a good amount of space I've been clearing all my junk out of my parents' place. Going through my old stuff I found this little flipbook that I made seventeen years ago. I photographed all the frames, lined them up on Photoshop and made a GIF out of it. 

And here it is!

I mean... it's actually not bad right?

Clearly my understanding of timing, physics, abbreviation (Snowbrd?) and story were lacking (how does it end?? WILL HE SURVIVE!!??) but for the work of a 7-year-old I think this is pretty darn impressive. 

This has led me to an interesting realization...

I've been circling around this passion my entire life

I only got into hand-drawn animation as a filmmaker when I was 21. I made a short film for a visual arts class in University just to experiment with the medium. But I fell in love with it and almost every film I've made since then has been animated. 

I'm 24 now. My career in/passion for serious animation has only been a part of my life for three and a half years. But when I look back at my childhood it seems like I've been working toward this the whole time:

• I've been drawing since before I could talk
• I made my first hand-drawn animation at 7
• When I was 13 I made a Lego stop-motion short
• In my early teenage years I experimented with claymation
• In my later teens I learned about 3D animation

It's so strange that animation has popped up in my life so many times but I never considered it as a possibility for my career until 3 years ago. 

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~Seth