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Joaquin Vasquez

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Bio

Become an animator, make incredible films and shows with talented people, enjoy the fun of it, and explore parts of the world with my career

Education

Union City High School

High School
2020 - 2024
  • GPA:
    3.3

Miscellaneous

  • Desired degree level:

    Bachelor's degree program

  • Majors of interest:

    • Visual and Performing Arts, General
    • Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management
    • Visual and Performing Arts, Other
    • Fine and Studio Arts
  • Not planning to go to medical school
  • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Animation

    • Dream career goals:

      2d animator

    • Film Recorder/ Editor

      Eagle Vision Media
      2022 – 20242 years

    Sports

    Badminton

    Intramural
    2022 – 20231 year

    Awards

    • no

    Arts

    • personal experience

      Animation
      2021 – Present

    Public services

    • Volunteering

      High school film challange — Story Board Artist/ Director of Cinematgraphy
      2023 – 2023

    Future Interests

    Volunteering

    Entrepreneurship

    Froggycrossing's Creativity Scholarship
    “The Office” Obsessed! Fan Scholarship
    A character that resonates the most with me is a bit of is Jim Halpert, he almost from the beginning delivers being the character that tries to take his job that deep to heart and tries to mess around for fun. He has a friend that he can go back and forth to make jokes and show more of his comedic side and creativity. A characteristic I relate to him is his trouble with love where he finds himself in a situation where he can pull through his specific dilemma if anything can come out of actually getting Pam or being in the “what if” if all fails. The show gives the idea that the workplace doesn’t have to remain just a boring place but that you can learn about and be in the stories with the people that you work with. On the aspect of comedy, it’s allowed me to understand and appreciate the random and absurd scenes of the show like the jelly stapler, and how Dwight has a method for ensuring the family is truly deceased with a shotgun. The show was a good time early into my teen years and when coming back it does wanna make you spend two more hours on episodes.
    Student Life Photography Scholarship
    Redefining Victory Scholarship
    I imagine my life of success is to live in a peaceful home of my own here I live on my own after having been able to afford with the help of the dream career I’ve had since 16. Where I live on my own after having been able to afford it with the help of the dream career I’ve had since 16. Animation is my career dream passion, and I wish to pursue it further. With the help of this scholarship, I would be less likely to transfer elsewhere and not undergo further student debt. I see my success as being able to work in out-of-state places where I needed to work on films and shows that ignite my passion for creativity and ideas for putting the big picture to the screen. Success to me is when I can work on a film or show that whenever I see it all come to life I get the sense that life loses all the serious responsibility and now I get to be a part of something that feels surreal and incredible. To this day, seeing projects from people around the world exploring how to make animation and ways to present them will always make me want to try harder. It's a wonderful niche that feels like my kind of group and the like minds I wish to integrate to get a better scope into how working for this form of art entertainment is done in the workforce. I've always practiced in 2d animation though I’m more than interested in working on courses involving 3d or 2d rigging especially, the way certain animators make the puppets move almost if not exactly as fluid as 2d style. The stories I especially wish to partake in telling are those with more mature themes and show incredible composition and ways to use the backgrounds or a character's perspective to tell a story. I always tried to brainstorm a story while in school and would hurry home to get to animate on the idea, with only loose sketches and whatever soon popped to mind that I could add or replace to the work. Animation was a creative outlet during the early years of high school that gave an activity that made me feel like I was a happy outsider doing something never often done in high school. I felt field to continue after showing friends and teachers my projects it made it mean more when working on them when I go home. I felt as though this was an opportunity I couldn’t throw away and wanted to know the keys to improve more and find where the opportunity is open for people like me to work on projects to get a better foothold in this world. I see this as being my success in my life where I can work to make creative projects for people to see and wish to see where it goes, life just working frame by frame to a living story would mean the world to me. Working to achieve this opportunity with the help of the scholarship would help with paying tuition of course along with the cost of attending the school. Success to me is working on shows behind the scenes and seeing that I’m not bound to be left in this situation.
    Creative Expression Scholarship
    Ethel Hayes Destigmatization of Mental Health Scholarship
    Mental health has made me understand the true dangers that I could go through in my life if I'm not carful with taking care of myself, it is very important to understand when not being in a comfortable mindset and not stable for the environment you're in can lead to harm on yourself and others. It is very important to allow yourself to have a break from what you are doing and enjoy a moment of peace and do something you like until you are better and can continue on. With relationships it's best to tell people how you function and what can bother you or stress you that way they know how to behave appropriate to how you are. An added option is to stay aware of people that are likely not best for your health and mind and to not take up or abuse yourself in taking unhealthy habits that can damage the mind and body. I've been very glad to have friends that understand how and who I am, that they know how I feel with certain things and what things make me uncomfortable, my mind is well and fine because of the peaceful and calm life I live. My health is important and is necessary to be kept healthy and happy.
    Career Test Scholarship
    My career path I've been looking forward into studying in college is to become an animator since I was 16 I started practicing in early sophomore year and would try to explore my imagination wondering what I can create. I knew I would have to create something that would challenging me rather than teach to have something that would tire me rather than wanting to see how to complete it like making war elephants charge at greek soldiers or bison battling before a train interrupts their fight. I would show my projects to my friends and teachers in a way it felt like making an episode only we could see it brought this feeling of pride knowing what I made could get an interested and amazed reaction. It made me put in the effort of taking the days hours into trying to add more into my projects and my art teachers would encourage me to continue in trying to make more projects, it has been my dream to be an animator. My inspiration had come from the 90s renaissance of Disney where for a brief but nostalgically memorable time where people put the time and love to achieve works that never lose the greatness factor or allure to rewatch it again. An animator on youtube named Telepurte was my inspiration in making projects every week, he would always make an well drawn short animation practically everyday. His skill, humour, and storytelling were what made me want to keep making more animation that carried the theme of being about whatever I think could wow me than the last. Films from studios like studio Ghibli have as well been a significant mark on my wish of being an animator because the level of effort and dedication into bring pure life to works that are just frames that create life in paper. The path of being an animator is the wish I want to achieve because of how there's such an incredible thing that you can make a story fantasy with themes of love, drama, mystery, action, on a tablet, computer, or on paper anywhere you are. What you make on something where people would just make a to do list or see what's going on the news to make possibly one of the newest talked about respected and loved animated shows and films. To me an animator is like a puppeteer and actor who can play what ever role with only a pen or pencil showing their acting chops one frame at a time. I love this career.