- Hi, my name is Savannah Fell.
I'm an Animation and Visual Effects major
and I'm a sophomore here at APU.
One of the really cool moments
that I've had at APU so far
is actually when I was accepted
into the animation program.
I visited campus for transfer
days and Tony Bancroft,
the head of the animation program,
actually came and sought
me out personally,
and I, they told me I had been accepted,
and it was just a really cool
moment seeing the whole plan
of the animation four-year track
on his whiteboard in his office.
And all of this Disney
memorabilia around his office,
it was just like wow, this is happening.
And, coming from a background
where I didn't have
art classes through high school,
it was a really cool moment of, wow,
like God has led me to this place
and he's letting me
pursue a career in art,
which has always been a dream of mine.
One of the biggest things I've taken away,
so far at least, is storytelling.
Story is everything.
We need to tell our stories,
whether it be about Christ,
our faith, where we come from,
different perspectives
we have on the world,
and how to impact it.
I was thinking storytelling
was just a fun thing to do,
but now it's more of like a mission.
It's like, you can make
impact in people's lives
by telling stories through
animation, through film,
through just talking to people,
and it's really about communicating,
and that has been a really big lesson
that I've learned so far.
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