I brought some portfolio pieces with me (which included Grease Monkey comics) and we synced immediately. He was a producer at Sony Animation (which I’d never heard of), and we met for breakfast at a restaurant outside of LA. But now I had an agent looking for opportunities, and a few months later, he found one.Īt some point in November ’96, my agent set up what we call a “meet and greet” with a guy named Audu Paden. When that show wrapped in the summer, I went back to comic book and illustration projects with no idea where I’d go next. ![]() As recounted in another article, my entry into the world of TV animation storyboarding began in 1996 with Wing Commander Academy. It went out of production in 1991, and gears slowly started turning for a followup. (I also didn’t rack up student loans, which was a pretty good tradeoff.) You can’t miss what you never had, but when I learned what kinds of experiences others had in college, I did feel like I missed out on something.Īs it turned out, that something was waiting for me in a different kind of school: Extreme Ghostbusters Academy.Įxtreme Ghostbusters was a direct sequel to The Real Ghostbusters, which was a big deal among some of my friends in the late 80s. I didn’t live in a dorm, didn’t hook up with a peer group, didn’t develop relationships with mentors. Thus, I didn’t have the collegiate experience that I later heard about from others. ![]() ![]() I went directly from high school into my field (at the time, commercial art).
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