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Delighted to be one of five 'story mentors', who work with over 100 international online students, on a weekly basis. I review their work, teach story concepts, and we discuss film, story, the ins and outs of the industry and give insights toward helping students thrive with health and creativity throughout a career. Its a year long program, that I gleefully went through back in 2020, where I learned so much from industry pros. And now Im teaching! Its a wonderful international mix of story talent, and I LOVE the collaborative atmosphere that creator Sergio Paez has built for all of us. Check it out! storyboardart.org

Los Angeles, California, United States

Doing boards for upcoming script driven tv show for Fox called 'Grimsburg'. And it is AWESOME. It should premiere later in 2023

Los Angeles, California, United States

Directed a 'pitch' pilot for a major network. Was given a GREAT script, GREAT character line up, and a lot of GREAT creative room (and encouragement) to come up with visuals, staging, gags, acting, and more. In 8 weeks went from thumbs to a fairly tight animatic. Had a very small crew and had a lot of FUN. Woo Hoo!!

Los Angeles, Ca

Storyboards for upcoming HBO MAX show 'The Prince' and Fox's 'The Great North'.

Los Angeles

Boarding out various commercial and animated spots

Hollywood, Ca

Worked in-house and assigned comedic sequences and moments between 60 foot monsters and a 16 year old protagonist. LOVED the daily story chats and the reworking of moments to find the best solutions. Worked closely with Director Hamish Grieve and Head of Story, Lawrence Gong. I don't think Ive ever drawn more in my life, AND I LOVED IT. After the film wrapped, I jumped over to Paramount's marketing to board out ideas for tool kit spots and some commercial tie in spots. It was a blast!

Glendale

Boarded for an upcoming ABC Mouse educational series, where the mice travel to many international spots, with emphasis on accurately depicting each location. It was quite fun and I learned a lot!.

So excited to have been a part of these 14 incredible episodes on Netflix. I assisted the wonderfully talented Russ Walko on Tom Servo. And did some principal Servo puppetry, along with other characters, even a watermelon. Working with Joel Hodgson, Beez McKeever, and Jonah Ray, and the entire crew was a dream experience. The cast, the production and Netflix could not have been nicer.

Show director for Comedy Central's "Legends of Chamberlain Heights." Now airing after South Park. I directed 3 episodes from their second season, under the awesome guidance of show creator Brad Ableson. Script driven show, 22 min eps. I was responsible for taking the script and getting it blocked out as thumbnails, then relaying that to our super talented duo of board artists: Tim Hopkins and Mike Giovanelli. Also responsible for working with character designers Adam Fay, and Bg and prop designs as well as editors, revisionists, Network execs (and implementing their notes) project coordinators, writers, and beyond.

Burbank, Ca

Led the team that developed, pitched and sold the new 'Wabbit.' cartoon show for Cartoon Network. These 2D shorts focus on featuring Bugs Bunny, and putting him in new, modern scenarios, amongst new characters, and letting him shine.I was the show runner (producer) for the first year, where I worked with the crew to: write, design, stage, edit, develop, board, cast for 56 separate 5 1/2 minute cartoon shorts, featuring Bugs. It was a dream job. During the first year, we made the switch from script driven to premise driven, and got to experience the benefits of both styles. I most enjoyed the story room, where we hatched a premise and developed, drew, and pitched an entire short in a day. From there it was handed over to the board artist to flesh out over the next four weeks. It was a tiring first day, but working with a small crew, hatching and honing an idea, made no other days so rewarding.Other responsibilities were staffing, model sheets, records, design, animation, S&P and legal notes, as well as animatics, leaky toilets, training and development, presenting to international execs, and most of all, listening to the crew. As a producer, you quickly learn it's a little of bit of everything.These 5 1/2 minute shorts will be one quarter of each 22 minute episode, and due to air on Cartoon Network in later 2015.

Burbank, Ca

Writer for early episodes of WABBIT, the new Bugs Bunny animated show on Cartoon Network/Boomerang. Also created and directed on the series. Some early writing credits: Buddha Bugs (w Jason Plapp), The Grim Rabbit, Your Bunny or Your Life, Painter Paint Hare, To Catch a Fairy, and more!

Over 6 seasons, I was fortunate to board on over 25 episodes of American Dad. They were very tight boards and extremely fleshed out animatics. A script driven show, we we're given a radio play and the rest was up to us. Lots of drawings, tight deadlines, and little sleep. Hey, that's the life of a board guy. I'm grateful for the experience and learned so much. Thank you Seth, Ron, Brent, Matt, Mike, Diana, and Kara and all the other directors I was fortunate enough to learn from!

Was so fortunate to have this opportunity to work with PAUL REUBENS! I got to play Clocky and Mr. Window for his theatrical revival of PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE (at the Club Nokia Theater). After a thirty year hiatus, I got to work alongside Paul as he put on that red bow tie and delight audiences night after night. I can't stop smiling about how fun and truly incredible that was. Thank you Paul, Swazzle Puppets, and director Alex Timbers for letting me play a small part in such a cool, legendary show.

Hollywood, Ca

I love the Wayan's Brothers, and drawing silly cartoons. And this project was a great blend of both. I got to design almost all the cards, stickers, and Mama's in the 150 card set. Had a blast taking Yo Mama jokes, coming up with gag sketches, then going to pitch them to Keenan and Shawn, and taking their notes to finalize the line art. Lots of laughs and fun working on this.

Animated Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Wile E. Coyote scenes for 'Back in Action'. Directed by Eric Goldberg

London, United Kingdom

I was fortunate to have animated Bagheera in the sequel to 'The Jungle Book'. Tandem studios was assigned some sequences and working alongside Teddy Hall and Neil Boyle was a dream.

Animated Tulio scenes for El Dorado and lots of horses in SPIRIT. Got to work with Dan Wagner, James Baxter and Kristof Serrand, among many other incredible talents. Great experience. And I helped Evel Knievel jump a fountain. ask me and Ill happily explain ;)

Clean up inbetweener on HADES and my supervisor was the incredible, the awesome, Bill Berg. I lived an entire year in the Disney Feature Animation basement drawing away.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Electronic Media (Animation/Motion Graphics)

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Electronic Media

Activities and Societies: Daily cartoonist for The Northern Star. President of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. Froze my nuts off.