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In today's episode, you'll hear storyboard artist Lila Martinez's fascinating story. Lila Martinez had a passion for animation while watching Disney animated movies, Looney Tunes and Tex Avery cartoons at an early age in Mexico City. Through tenacity and the drive to pursue her deep interest for the medium, she enrolled at the Vancouver Film School, where she diligently studied the craft of traditional character animation and CGI. While employed in the Mexican feature animation industry as a character animator on Guardians of the Lost Code and Juan Escopeta & Heroes Verdaderos. She co-founded Phenomena a boutique animation studio, to provide pre-production art and animation service for the Latin America television commercial market. In 2013 she made a decision to focus on storyboarding where she later realize her true calling is storytelling. Her strength lies in visualizing scripted narrative, problem solving story holes and building a character driven sequence. Within a year, she had the opportunity to