My animation career began in 1990 when, while still in college, I got hired as an inbetweener on the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Soon after I found work as a layout artist on Beetlejuice, and Eek! The Cat, and then as a storyboard artist on Bob and Margaret, and Courage the Cowardly Dog.
In the past decade, I have worked as a layout supervisor on Netflix’s The Mr Peabody & Sherman Show, a key pose artist on The Adventures of Rock & Bullwinkle, a series director on Rhyme Time Town, and a senior storyboard artist on Nickelodeon’s Middlemost Post. In all, I’ve counted contributing to over 300 individual movies, episodes, shorts, ads, and PSAs over my career.
I’ve worked in every stage of animation production from assistant to senior artist, from supervisor to director to producer.
Cartoons that inspire me
I mostly love what you might call “old timey” cartoons, specifically the early work from the 1940s through to the 1960s. Things like early Warner Bros shorts, UPA-era shows like Roger Ramjet, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and The Flintstones and Yogi Bear from Hanna-Barbera. Early anime shows like Astro-Boy, Speed Racer, and Goldorak (you’d know it as UFO Robot Grendizer, but I watched it in French!) are all big influences on me too.
I love their simplicity, the bold graphics, the comic book colour palettes, and above all the goofy absurdity of shows from those decades. None of them were grounded in realism, but rather were complete fantasy. They were colourful and hopeful and idealistic, very much like all the sci-fi of the 1950s and 1960s (another big influence). They were light and goofy, and if feels like we need some of that today.
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