Covering Letter

Jodie Pearce

7 Cromwell Road

St Judes

Plymouth

PL4 9QR

Disney Studios

500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-9722

14th December 2011

Dear Sir/Madam

Application for character design apprenticeship

My name is Jodie Pearce and one thing you should know about me is that I am a massive fan your classics but I have lost passion and faith for the company after your 2D films started to die out and be replaced my films like High School Musical and Hannah Montanna. Like the rest of the Disney classic fans I went to the cinema to see Tangled out of a feeling of obligation to the company for at least trying but when I actually saw it. It blew my mind, it was such a step forward from all the old princess films and it reminded me again why I loved Disney, the animation, score, songs, it was all amazing. After watching it again and again I realised that even though this is an amazing step forward, there is so much more you can do building from it and that is what I would like to do if I ever got the chance to be a character designer for you, push the boundary's. Make stronger 'princesses' who don't have to be saved, villains that aren't just 'evil', side characters not just there for kids to laugh at. 

Although my talent is drawing my passion has always been designing characters. Since a young age I have been in love with fairy tales, books and films and as I perused my career in art my experience from this inspired me to start making my own characters and eventually worlds. Over the years my artistic talent has improved to quite a high level and I learnt important skills like perseverance and creativity as well as broadening my horizons and looking at more than just western films and books. I believe all this has helped improve my character design skills as as my skill increased I realised I could draw more interesting clothing and hair styles which has pushed my character design way up and I truly believe I could really make some amazing characters with the right guidance.

I know you don't offer apprenticeships for character design but I seriously believe we need more character designers as even if the film is beautifully animated with an amazing plot and score it will still do badly if no-one likes the characters, as they are, I believe, the most important part of the film. I would be happy to discus my idea's with you further or even have an interview. 

Yours Faithfully

Jodie Pearce