My first animations took place in my father's paperback books, where I would scribble flipbook shorts in the margins, filling each corner to capacity. Crude things: Pacman exploding, stickmen repeatedly injuring themselves, etc. In an effort to save his library while still encouraging creativity, my father bought sketchbooks and drawing supplies for me; after all he was the art teacher at my school. I acquired my first computer as a family gift in 1985, an Atari 800xl, whose crude 4-color animation capabilities led to several bizarre short films in high school. I later completed my degree at the Memphis College of Art, where an exchange with the San Francisco Art Institute ultimately convinced me to move west. In 1996, I became Senior Designer at the Bay Area firm DesignSite, where I mainly focused on print design and illustration...landing a spot in Print Magazine's Design Annual. With the advent of digital video, my work soon evolved full circle back to animation and motion graphics. In 2000 I moved to New York and completed Food, an award-winning animated film shown on PBS and at festivals worldwide...this film would open several doors down the road. In 2001, my partner Matthew Robbins and I launched Artfool, a multidisciplinary design studio that went on to become one of New York's finest event design companies, later chosen as one of Modern Bride's 25 Trendsetters of the Year and featured frequently on Martha Stewart. Through the years I've had the privilege to work with some of the best animation studios and directors in New York, and my work has been seen on HBO, Showtime, MTV, VH1 or basically anywhere there is a TV. My print design, short films and photography have been featured in The New York Times, Print Magazine, Wired and Newsweek.

PROGRAMS: After Effects, Cinema 4D and modules - emphasis on Mograph and Modynamics, Various tracking programs, Anime Studio Pro (you'd be surprised what it can do), Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, every other Adobe product on earth.