Z.M. Shore said:Hey I am going to be at the Accepted Students Event guys! Yaaay! Me too. See you there!

Hello friends! My name is Renee and I will be 19 this summer. I've always loved drawing, but I didn't become interested in animation until I discovered CalArts. I found one of the school's old student films when I was 16 (Adrian Molina's "Unicorn vs. Narwhals") and have been inspired ever since. Since then, I've taken a crash-course of animation programs/classes. I was involved with a high school animation studio during my senior year and got to work with some fellows from Pixar and Adventure Time, which was a lot of fun. I also got the awesome chance to be a CSSSA student at CalArts last summer (after it was all over, nobody wanted to say good-bye to each other so we all applied to the same school hoping we could be together again!) I applied to CalArts Fall 2011 and was rejected, so I've been filling up this last year with community college, getting rid of my GE's and interning in the education department of my hometown's art museum. I'm super influenced by the fabulous works of Yuri Norstein, Satoshi Kon, Suzie Templeton, Kirsten Lepore, Allison Schulnik, and Michaela Olsen. Looking very forward to meeting your talented faces in the Fall! :D Some of my doodle poops: http://reneefaundo.blogspot.com/ http://fondulady.tumblr.com/

Federico Kempke said: Renee Fawn said:Hey friends! I just got into CalArts for Character Animation, yaaay! (My accepted portfolio is listed under my blog: http://reneefaundo.blogspot.com/ ) Hope to see your faces in the fall. :)   Congratulations! lovely portfolios, I see you applied for both character and experimental. When did you find out you were accepted?   Hello Federico! I found out about 2 weeks ago - me and about a dozen other friends applied this year and we half of us heard back from the school within the same week. :)

Hey friends! I just got into CalArts for Character Animation, yaaay! (My accepted portfolio is listed under my blog: http://reneefaundo.blogspot.com/ ) Hope to see your faces in the fall. :)