Introduction

Hey, I'm Christopher Wright! I'm not the best with introductions, but here goes! I'll just give a brief-ish history of me!

Animation
This is really the only important part. I've known since before I can really remember that I wanted to make cartoons. Toy Story was for sure the movie that made me want to become an animator, but the TV show Jimmy Neutron is the show that made me actually start looking into it... with my dad, because, like the commercials on Disney and Nickelodeon say, "ask an adult to go online!"

I don't remember the name of the first animation program my dad found, I know it was paid and it looked complicated. The first program I used was a lovely program called Anim8or. It was a strange little program, but I loved it. I followed all of the tutorials. 

For nostalgia's sake, 

Obviously very rough. Very rough. But I was so proud because I made a sort of script, drew concept art, modeled, rigged, textured, and lit everything. I won't say how old I was out of embarrassment...

Moving on, I found Blender. This is really the program that made me realize I could make high quality things on my computer. I started using version 2.49, but was really bad at it. When version 2.5 was released I got into it. I followed all of the tutorials from Blender Guru, Blender Cookie, and the official Blender tutorials.

After some modeling and texturing, I realized I wasn't very good and it wasn't very fun for me. I knew animation, character animation specifically, is what I wanted to do. So, after trying college and changing my mind, I found Animation Mentor! I'm currently enrolled in Class 3 with Jon Collins. Class 2 was with Joe Antonuccio, who was super inspiring, and Jude Brownbill, who was super inspiring and it was her first time teaching!

Who I Am
I was born in Montana, but I was raised in a bunch of places. I currently live in South Carolina, but I love moving and I'd be happy to be almost anywhere. And as of January 2nd, 2015 I've been super happily married to my best friend Emily.

Things I Like
As far as movies go, my favorite of all time is The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. But the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy is the best. After that is Harry Potter, any Pixar or Disney movie, especially Toy Story, Big Hero 6, and Tangled. I love every Laika movie, most Dreamworks, Illumination, and Blue Sky movies. And I love a bunch of other science fiction movies and dramas.

For music I'm really into soundtracks. Any Ghibli soundtrack or Lord of the Rings soundtrack will get me animating. Also the Steve Jobs soundtrack by Daniel Pemberton is incredible.

For hobbies, I like to draw, play Lord of the Rings trivia, watch movies, study animation, watch TED talks, watch Crash Course videos, mostly the Big History playlist, watch old shows from my childhood, and on occasion play video games.

So, in conclusion, those are the highlights that make up me!