We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Dynnaro You a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Dynnaro, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
Recently I’ve been pondering about which projects matter most to myself. All of my creative endeavors was solely to get into the animation industry, and I did make it in. I’m glad I did so, but due to that I’ve been questioning why I made art to begin with, and now I’m in a journey to make stories that fulfill me the most regardless what others think.
Dynnaro, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Hi! My name is Dynnaro You.
I’m a storyboard artist, formerly worked for Walt Disney Feature, and the Tuttle Twins (Harmon Brothers). The path into animation was different as I didn’t graduate through traditional schooling. Previously I’ve worked for a YouTube channel, making animated explainer videos, and on the side tried to practice story boarding to get good enough to work in animation.
I got into storyboarding because I wanted to work for animation, but i couldn’t decide on what discipline. Animation consists of so many disciplines! I decided on storyboarding, I realized it was the discipline I knew the least, and that it could help me tell better stories.
Now, I’m in a state in my life where I can try to make original stories I’ve always wanted to make. From films, animatics and, soon graphic novels.
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?
For me, a reminder to myself would be when things are finished. When I’m at my job sometimes it’s hard to see the big picture when you’re drawing a panel or a character at a given time. But, when it’s edited and stitched together as a reel, and I can see the characters come to life to scratch voices. Something shifts in me, it gives me feedback that it was worth it. It was worth the effort.
I when I get to hold something in my hand or experience it. It helps me to look forward to creating, knowing I have a finished product and that lives out in the world.
I heard a really cool quote, I don’t remember the musician/artist who said it. “I get to decorate a piece of time.” To me that’s super cool.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
I think in my journey as a storyboard artist. It was counterintuitive, learning storyboarding felt like I was learning another language. Well, Film language. In those years, I hopped to many interests during the time I was trying to break into animation, and really because learning how to storyboard was difficult. I almost quit 3 times! Like throw in the towel completely and just move onto something else. I’m glad I stuck it through and came out the other end of it.
Don’t give up!
Contact Info:
- Website: Dnyro.carrd.co
- Instagram: Instagram.com/dnyro
- Other: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elixir-2024/elixir-experimental-animation-film