Trinity Akins
Storyboard Path – 2024
Our tale begins in a magical state called Michigan where you can experience all four seasons in one day! Even at the age of three, Trinity’s mother always knew she was going to be a great artist, she was always drawing on every thing. So many things that her mom had to provide her with a sketchbook specifically so she wouldn’t draw on the church pan-flips during service anymore. Throughout her childhood, Trinity had a hunger for animation and storytelling. She was in love with Disney princess movies (heck she knew all the songs backward and forward!). Her mother may or may not have hidden a couple of VHS Tapes, just so she didn’t have to hear “Part of Your World” for the hundredth time.
Every birthday and Christmas, Trinity would receive masses of art supplies, which she used up very quickly, anointing her sketchbooks with pictures of princesses, Tom and Jerry, and SpongeBob. During school breaks, Trinity would ride her bike every day to the library in sun, snow, and rain (in Michigan you could have all three in one day). From sun-up till sundown, she stayed in the library faithfully reading manga, watching anime, and drawing in one of her many sketchbooks. Nothing could stop her not even the librarians trying to drag her out after they were closed. The library gave her access to everything she loved which fueled her unquenching hunger to create art, and to be around it.
No surprise she decided to continue her exploration of visual storytelling at College for Creative Studies where she worked on improving her craft in storytelling among lifelong friends and wise teachers. After college she was fortunate enough to be a part of Story for All, a mentorship dedicated to people of color who want to further their education in storyboarding, where she was around like-minded talented people who strive to prepare for the animation industry. While waiting on her golden ticket, Trinity filled her time by working as an art teacher, cultivating her students’ hunger for art just as her mother did for her. Trinity’s number one goal is to ignite the creativity and imagination that childhood cartoons sparked for her through storytelling.
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