The Illusion Of Life

A Lifetime of Art School

Some of the most rewarding creative jobs start with an “ah-ha” moment. As a kid, I wanted to know how a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists got their breakthrough, or what professor stoked their creative fire. I wanted to know how it all started so I could understand the profession better. Animators and their earliest endeavors have always been a fascination, having been nourished on Saturday morning cartoons. I sat down with Abigail Muñoz, who recently earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Development from Academy of Art University, San Francisco and is currently the 2018 General Track artist at the Nickelodeon Artist Program in Burbank, California to talk about how an animation career develops, the years of study, early influences and when she had her “ah-ha.”

Evan Pricco: Do you remember the first thing, whether movie, animation or cartoon, that really made you want to create art?