Letter of intention

Letter of intention, the Animation Workshop

Hello, my name is André Rondahl. I am 19 years of age, and I wish to apply for the Computer Graphic Arts program at the animation workshop. My interest in drawing started at a young age and I have known what I want to work with since 8^th grade.  At the age of 16 I took the first step towards that dream and decided to move away from my family to study animation at an upper secondary school in Eksjö in Sweden.  During three years I have studied animation and been taught about the whole process, from storyboarding, sound and animation to background and character design. This is my third and final year and I will soon graduate and finish my last big movie project.  With this last project I learned that Computer Graphic Arts is the program best suited for myself.  The parts I loved the most while I made the short movie was the creation of different environments and to design scenes and populate the world with your very own characters. So now after my first step I have decided to take the second one towards my dream and apply to the Animation Workshop’s Computer Graphic Arts program.

In the future I would like to get all the contacts and experience I need to start working within the animation industry as a concept/environment artist or character designer because that is what I love to do. I have already traveled far but this is not the end, only the beginning and I can see how much further this journey is going to take me. I know that with my determination I’m going to work with animation in the future and fulfill my dreams, maybe even someday work in places like Disney, Dreamworks or Pixar, companies whose movies have influenced me the most. My favorite movies must be the Toy Story trilogy, they are simply put amazing and they have managed to make them stay interesting and great throughout all three movies. I love a great story so something I followed for a long time is the comic books “walking dead”, they have created a world with great characters and how they evolve and adapt to such an extreme world with zombies is interesting.

I have during these years when I studied animation learnt how to use quite a few programs, those programs are:

Adobe Photoshop Cs4 and 6

 Adobe Flash Cs4 and 6

Adobe Premiere Cs5

Adobe After effects Cs5

Paint tool sai

Audacity

We worked a lot with these programs and I know how to use them all, however I have used Photoshop more than Sai. The program I worked with the least is After effects but I still know the basics. I feel that my user level with this software is higher than average except After affects where I consider my user level as average knowledge.  I consider my English language very good as well, I have the grade B in both English courses at my upper secondary school and even taken an extra course during my last year to increase my English knowledge more if I would get accepted to the Computer Graphic Arts program.

If I get admitted as a student I’m going to Denmark. As I moved away from home at the age of 16, I am used to travelling and taking the step to move abroad isn’t something I find difficult. On the contrary, I find it rather exciting. Financial issues are not going to be a problem, I have already called and checked with CSN here in Sweden about student loans and they told me that I can take loan for both the living and the education costs when I Study abroad. I hope that I will have some interesting years ahead of me at the Animation Workshop in Denmark.

Sincerely

contact information:
André Rondahl
Lerängsvägen 2
79570 vikarbyn
Sverige/Sweden
Email:  andre.rondahl@hotmail.se

tlf: +46 73 22 88 608

My blog with portfolio:
http://rondahlandre.blogspot.se/