About Me

Hello! My name is Zoe Steer. I am a 22 year old RMIT Animation graduate with a passion for telling stories and making art. I grew up in Melbourne Australia and right from the get-go I fell in love with Disney princesses. I danced and performed to my family in Cinderella ball gowns and believed that if I just tried hard enough I could sprout a tail like Ariel. I was always a dreamer and that need for expression led me to pick up a pen and draw. I drew and drew and drew and never really stopped. I would draw a world full of girls and cut them out, blue tack them on my bedroom wall and create stories about them. When I got a pack of Prismacolour brush tip markers for Christmas I never put them down. I stained every inch of my old carpet from the amount of ink and watercolour I spilled on it. All I wanted to do was create.

When I was younger I didn't know you could make a living creating art, I was told it was thing you did as a hobby. So when people would ask me "what do you want to be when you grew up?", I'd always say that "I WANNA BE A PILOT!" (I had a really weird obsession with air crash investigations). However, when I was in year 7 I went to the movie cinemas to watch Pixar's Monsters University. I was in total awe of the quality of that movie. I loved everything Pixar (one of my favourite movies of all time is still WALL-E), but it had never clicked that there was someone that had created that movie. When I thought on who had created this movie, I suddenly had a thought, "maybe I could make that?". From then on I made a valiant effort to keep improving on my art. I did out of school art classes, focused on art and design in school and even wrote in my year 7 time capsule that I wanted to be an animator when I grew up. In year 12 I finally got to open that time capsule, and reading this dream out loud made my heart sing.

At the end of year 12 I had been accepted into my dream animation course held at RMIT University in Melbourne. It completely expanded my idea of what I thought I was capable of. It opened my eyes to infinite possibilities of what I could create and gave me the opportunity to collaborate with others, hone my skills and make short films. I am forever grateful to the people I met there and the lecturers that guided me along my journey. I graduated at the end of 2023 with a distinction and am now looking towards the next big opportunity.

I am excited to make more pieces with other creatives and to continue developing as an artist. I can't wait to see where my future will lead me and what is out there for me to explore.