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I was working as an architect. I started as a CAD draftsperson,
drawing blueprints for buildings and things like that, until I started to grow in the industry
and I ended up just actually being an architect, designing, and I did a couple of buildings.
I'm not the first architect trying to be a director.
An architect is taught to see a space in his head, literally. He has a photograph in his head,
and he can walk inside the photograph, even if that building is not even in blueprints.
So, you can draw the blueprints because you have the building really clear in your head,
and your technical knowledge allows you to see it through your head really clearly.
So, you can even move a camera inside a building or whatever and light the building the way you want it,
put the windows the way you want them, so the space looks the way you want it.
Starting a new field, I had to really consume the least time that I could just finding a way to enter into the industry,
because when you're working is when you learn.
So of course, there was a program of 2 or 3 years that I could even pay for,
but it wasn't my idea because I just wanted to enter into the industry the fastest I could.
So I just chose only 1 year. I didn't want it to go to 2 years.
People will ask you questions that maybe you don't expect.
The only way you can answer those questions right is if you really know in yourself how to connect things really fast.
So a good way to do it is to just write about yourself, what you know about yourself.
What are your skills, and how can you connect that into a possible completely different field.
In my case it was animation or film.
So you have to be smart to connect that really fast as soon as they ask you that,
and you have to be relaxed, but to be relaxed, you have to know what you want and what you are.
That's the most important thing, everything: know what you want and what you are.
I started as a really junior layout artist. I didn't want to stay there
because there's not enough of the art part that I want to be involved in,
so I moved to become a lighter. And my approach is just to keep growing.
My actual final, let's say, dream, which I hope will come true,
is to actually direct and produce my own stories, and create them.
And hopefully I will grow up to get into a director position, or storyboard artist
which would be to be really close to that,
or maybe in art direction which would be a really high level. That's my approach.