A bit about me...
I've recently moved to Orlando in the past few years, and so far I've really liked it. I moved down here for school and stayed down here for my job. I've been fortunate to have a wonderful circle of friends.
I'm currently working in an industry that allows me to do what I love. I spend my day working at an animator at a small game company. Being a small company, it'd be easier to call myself a general artist. I do animation, illustrations, menu screens, icons, cinematics and trailers. A little bit of everything I enjoy doing.
I find most of my evenings spent drawing in front of the tv. I'll go out clubbing downtown occasionally, go to Disney a good amount of times, but above all I just enjoy drawing! And over the years I've gotten better at drawing directly with my wacom tablet, so the realm of possibilities just keep growing and growing! Traditional animation is still one of my favorite things to do. I just wish I had a better/faster scanner to work with getting my stuff in the computer for pencil tests.
Another hobby I enjoy is singing. I've been taking lessons since I was 11, now 23. I started off taking lessons in a broadway style singing, moved onto classical when I got to college, then opera my last year of undergrad. Currently, I'm branching off into pop and improving my range. My current voice teacher is great! I'm an alto, but can sing mezzo soprano very comfortably. Within the past year, my voice teacher has extended my head voice range to first soprano so I'm very happy with how things are going with my voice. Just working on mixing my chest voice and head voice and hitting those higher notes, but it's very hard for me! lol I've never really been interested in singing professionally, mostly because my passion is truly in art. I lost a lot of confidence in my performance ability after high school theatre as well.
Another hobby I used to enjoy was acting on stage. I was heavily involved in theatre back in high school, even was Vice President of the Thespian Honors Society my junior year. To this day I still have fond memories and not so fond memories of high school theatre. That will be saved for another blog. But it'll take me a long time to get the nerve to act again. Left theatre with a bitter taste in my mouth.
So I could go on and on, but I'll leave this is as my first blog post. I'm no writer, so my writing style is all over the place. Hopefully I'll improve over time. :)
Catch y'all later!
-Casey Jo
