Biography

President of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists and Affiliated Optical Electronic and Graphic Arts, Local 839 IATSE, from 1992 to 2001.

Taught by Gil Miret and Howard Beckerman at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League.

Graduate of SVA in 1977 with a BFA in Animation.

In 2017 was elected to the AMPAS Board of Governors for Short Films and Feature Animation.

[on IMDB]: An indispensable resource for film credits. Animation pros are always checking each other out on IMDB. It's the Show-biz equivalent of dogs sniffing each others genitals.

[What did he animate on Roger Rabbit?] Because I joined the crew later than most, I asked Dick where was I needed the most. He answered: "Weasels. No one wants to do them." So I did a lot of weasels, including the scenes where they all die. I also animated some of the gorilla bouncer at the Ink & Paint Club, and a lot on the finale. I animated Woody Woodpecker, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam and Dumbo. I did the last shot of the picture. I'll always remember it. One hundred characters, 28 runs under the camera for 38 feet, (45 feet is 30 seconds), 14 levels. All singing, all dancing. Zemeckis wanted it to look like the last shot of Hitchcock's The Birds, except with toons. I also got to animate some of the last voice work of Mel Blanc, doing Sylvester. He died two months later. I studied Rod Scribner, Clampett's Sylvester from Kitty Cornered, Dick Lundy's Woody Woodpecker.