Inside Disney’s Animation Secrets: How Brandon Violette Crafts Stories That Come to Life
Brandon Violette
That’s fascinating, because I know what you’re talking about. And so, I was close to graduating, I thought I was going to get a master’s in humanities, because I thought I wanted to be a better writer. But I was still living at home, I had some insecurity about just what I felt like a lack of living, you know, like really living life. And I thought that’s what would make me a better writer. And I thought maybe humanities would kind of put something in me that wasn’t there, some worldliness, you know, if you will. And I still wanted to pursue screenwriting, but pursue it that way. And then a random email one afternoon said China Scholarship Opportunity, it was from a Chinese film professor, emailed the class, I read it and the short version is – It’s the scholarship through CSUN, where they pair students with a corresponding university in China. So, if you’re studying filmmaking, it was the Beijing Film Academy, which is where I ended up going for two years. And so, I saw this email, I thought this is the humanities, but in real life. So, I left home first time leaving home for two years. So, in terms of graduating, that’s what happened. I graduated in June, went to China in September, about two years came back and then was ready to kind of pound the pavement and try to get that first opportunity.
