ABSTRACT
My fi rst experiments in animation were in my fi rst year of art school. It was an assigned project, and after my fi rst test shots, I knew this was for me. It seemed to be the perfect mix of art: sculpture, painting, lighting, performance and music. From then on I had a fairly clear path to follow. After two years in art school I moved to California to go to fi lm school. I never had any training in character animation. I just interpreted my fi lm assignments in animation, extremely crude, misinformed, uneducated stop motion. It was fun and I loved it, but the fi lms were total crap. After I graduated I heard they were doing The New Adventures of Gumby in San Francisco. It was perfect, low-end entry-level stop motion. So I moved to San Francisco to beg for a job and, eventually, they let me in. That’s where I met a lot of the animators that I have worked with through the years, and that’s where I learned how to animate.
