In a recent blog post, Emilie Goulet, BFA (film animation) 01, wrote: “I remember when I was a kid and school would end for the summer. There was so much time off that I would almost get bored after a while… and that’s when I started getting story ideas.”
Goulet’s spare time during summer vacations would lay the framework for a successful career in film and video-game animation following her graduation from Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in 2001.
In the past decade and a half she’s worked with Walt Disney Studios, Sony Pictures and Electronic Arts. Her story ideas have appeared in the movies The Little Prince and Scooby Doo Unmasked, as well as several other television and film productions.
Goulet says her university education played a significant role in her path to Hollywood.
“One thing that I learned right away at Concordia was the many different ways one could tell a story,” she says. “Everybody did something differently and could help you see your own work from a new angle.”
Goulet’s inspiration for her work comes from her fondness for storytelling.
“I always loved telling stories. I didn’t know how animation worked but was captivated by how it drew the attention and how versatile the visual language was,” she says. “I wanted to go through the screen and live in those worlds.”