STREET: Why did you start doing animations? Julie Adam: I always liked animation: Pixar and Disney movies, film and all that. But I never took a class or anything, so it was, like, completely random. One day in 2010, I was just really bored and I was in an art store. I saw this animation book and I was like, “Oh. I can animate that.” That’s how it started. I bought a lot of books about animation and I started teaching myself. I loved the fact that you can literally make anything happen with animation. No limitations.
STREET: What inspired “Miniature”? JA: It’s a love story. What inspired it? That’s a good question. I don’t think it was inspired by anything specifically, but I really like paper, and I wanted to make it come to life and I wanted to animate my best friend, Matthieu Mintz, at the same time. Then I had the idea of the paper doll. And I actually had a deck of cards that was right there, and I was like, “Oh, he’s going to be really little, and some stuff that seems really little to us will seem really big to him.” The rest of it was just to make it more fun and more entertaining to watch.
STREET: Are you considering animation and film as a future? JA: Well, my dream job would be to be involved in it in some way. But I’m a freshman and I don’t know what to study yet. Honestly, I tend to think that people who work with animation as a job went to art school. So I don’t feel like I’d have the credibility. Hypothetically, I would love to. Realistically, I don’t know if that’ll happen. I’ll do everything I can to make it happen. I really want to because it’s actually what makes me happy. When I have nothing to do, I start thinking about animations and stuff. I have a thousand projects I want to do, and that’s what I’m looking forward to.
STREET: Can you give a clue on what your next project might be? JA: I can say one thing: it will involve sugar.
Check out Julie's winning film here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIpYd20y5Wk
