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Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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Jennifer Yuh Nelson shares that she and her sister started drawing very early in life, as her mother observed. She explains that animation is a natural progression from drawing because it allows her to tell stories through pictures.

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