An art student has big dreams to work at Pixar, so she started drawing in front of its headquarters — and got employees' attention
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Jessie Plascencia has big dreams to work at Pixar, so she's been drawing its famous characters in front of the company's headquarters. Jessie Plascencia
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Plascencia was born in 1999, a month before Toy Story 2 was released. Since she shared the same name as Jessie, one of the main characters in the sequel, her mom bought her all kinds of Jessie the Cowgirl merch, the 22-year-old college student told .
She always encouraged me to be as creative as possible, Plascencia said. She bought me a tablet at 14 and really pushed digital artwork.
I've always been drawing and creating my own stories for as long as I can remember, she added. I always did that instead of playing outside.
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I always just loved their themes and concepts, they've always touched me, Plascencia said. Even now, I feel like every phase that I go through as I grow up, I always seem to relate. I'm always going through something in a similar time period that they release their movies.
Plascencia is currently a studio art major and animation minor at San Francisco State University. As the world went into lockdown, her classes were moved online.
The pandemic had just started and life was very dreary and there were wildfires at the time in California, she recalled. The sky was completely red one time when I woke up.
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So being stuck inside all of the time, reading scary news articles, and the world is actually red outside —I just wanted to escape reality and remind myself why I'm in school online and why I'm taking animation classes.
I'd go out and remind myself that this is the goal, she added. It started with just trying to make a positive out of the negative.
One day, I decided it would be fun to just chalk draw there and work on something with my hands, she said. And local people started encouraging me. They were like, 'You should post this somewhere.'
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The artist told she didn't think anyone would see her chalk art. At first, she was just doing it for herself.
In simple terms, I was manifesting my future, Plascencia said. Like, one day I'm going to come here every day and draw and that's what I'm going to prepare myself for today.
I didn't expect anything. Even posting it online, it was more just for me, she added. Like wow, I'm so grateful for this life that I've been blessed with.
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The bright colors of the chalk inspired Plascencia to start drawing Pixar characters. She began bringing Pixar movies to life right in front of the headquarters as she drew Joe from Soul and Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc.
Plascencia learned that the security guards had been telling Pixar animators about her chalk drawings. Word of her art was also spreading on the company's Slack channels, where they were rooting her on.
To get that kind of confirmation felt really validating, she said. It felt like, 'OK, I'm not crazy. I'm not weird for having these childish dreams.' The animation industry, it's all about being creative and celebrating that outside-the-box thinking, so it meant a lot to me.
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Plascencia didn't secure a spot in this year's summer internship class. But the college student said she's not deterred in the slightest.
It's not scary to me to fail. I know that Pixar is a top studio, she said. One of the security guards told me, 'I applied 15 times before I got my acceptance. If you just be persistent, you're going to get in.' It's that kind of encouragement — it felt like, 'OK, we can do this.' I'm going to keep going, why would I stop?
Plascencia was given an exclusive tour of the studio, where she tried her hand at voice acting and visited the animation department to see behind-the-scenes artwork for Lightyear.
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Whether it's Dory from Finding Nemo or Mei Lee from Turning Red, Plascencia still loves bringing Pixar characters to life with her chalk art.
No matter how long it takes, Plascencia said she's going to keep working toward her dream of having a job at Pixar.
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I'm OK with taking my time on this journey because I know some of the experiences I'm going to go through, I'm going to pull from and use as inspiration for my films or art concepts, she said.
There are so many reasons I love Pixar. It's all about the underdog and believing in yourself, she added. It doesn't matter who you are, you have a story to tell — you just have to trust that you can make it.
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