I majored in jazz performance/music theory at the universoty of North Texas. While playing in the disneyland bands as a performer, I met someone in animation and moved into that feels. I began my animation career as a layout/story artist on Batman the animated series. From there I worked as an designer? storyboard artist for Film Roman as well as an overseas superviser( Korea). I worked at Marvel for a bit before moving in feature animation at Disney, followed by 16 years at Dreamworks as a head of Story. I've returned to Disney for the past 3 years.
Work History
Story Artist
Walt Disney Animation Studios
May 2013 - Present
Story Artist
Walt Disney Animation Studios
March 2013 - Present
Head of Story
DreamWorks Animation
1997 - December 2012
Head of Story on the Road to El Dorado, Sinbad (uncredited), Over the Hedge. Kung fu Panda, secrets of the Masters.
Story Artist on Shrek 2 and 3, How to Train your Dragon, Madagascar 3, Home, Rise of the Guardians, Peabody and Sherman, Sharktale,Home.
Ran story training program for three years.
Instructor
Academy of Art University
2010 - 2011
Taught digital storyboarding for feature films.
Story artist
Walt Disney Animation Studios
1994 - 1997
Story artist on Hunchback of Notre dame, Hercules, Mulan and Tarzan
Character designer
Marvel Entertainment
1994 - 1994
Character Design on Spider-man
Design, Layout and Storyboard Artist, overseas supervisor
Film Roman / Starz Media
1993 - 1993
Character Design, layout and Storyboards and overseas supervisor ( Korea) on Mighty Max
Layout and Storyboard artist
Warner Bros. Animation
1991 - 1993
Layout and storyboard artist for Batman, the Animated Series and Batman, Mask of the Phantasm.