What is your name and your current occupation?
Mike Carlo and I’m an Animation Director/ Director at Titmouse Inc.
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What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
 I was an usher at a movie theater when I was in high school, and was subjected to wearing a really dorky uniform. I was also a Continue reading
What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Pat Giles, and I am a Creative Director and co-founder (with Manny Galan) of Pat-Man Studios in New York City. We have several big Agency/Advertising clients. We currently run the creative assignments for several General Mills kids brands like Lucky Charms, TRIX, GoGurt and Honey Nut Cheerios for Saatchi & Saatchi. We partner with animation houses like Calabash and Laika, and cartoon gods like Sergio Aragones and others to make commercials, video games, short films, etc. We are also working on several series projects with Classic Media that aren’t announced yet, and we are in production on a project called “Captain Cornelius Cartoon’s Cartoon Lagoon†that will be out by the end of the year, whether it kills us or not.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I worked in children’s clothing for many years (not wearing it to work, but designing it). I designed tons (literally) of licensed products for Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel, DC and Warner Bros., among others. The oddest was the line of “Hunchback of Notre Dame†pajamas I designed. While I am not knocking the artistry behind that film, Quasimodo made for some very odd pajamas.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I’ve been extraordinarily lucky to work on a lot of awesome projects. Back in the day, I started out as a designer on “Disney’s Doug,†art directed the Disney Channel series “Stanley,†was the Design Supervisor on MTV’s “Daria,†and worked on several other series in various capacities. I started a comic book company called “Monkeysuit Press†with Chris McCulloch (aka Jackson Publick), Mike Foran, Miguel Martinez-Joffre and Prentis Rollins. That was really fun and liberating. Several years ago everyone thought I left “animation,†but taking an ad agency assignment only got me deeper into it, since all of my assignments were for these beloved American brands with animated characters like Lucky, the Trix Rabbit, Buzz, and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird. The craft applied to these commercials is magnificent. I get to work with animators, directors, CG artists, painters, composers, orchestras, engineers, voice actors, and a lot of live action/animation combos with great directors, actors and cinematographers. It’s been a blast.
How did you become interested in animation?
“At Conception,†hahaha…I was just hard wired for animation and Continue reading
What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Luis Gadea. I’m currently a freelance animator/concept artist and I’m gonna start working as a Flash animator for TV series.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I only had one real job before starting in animation. I was a salesman in a call center for a telephone company from Argentina, then thankfully I was hired really young in an animation studio for commercials.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I really don’t have one specific favorite. I think I have learned from every project and each one has given me new skills for the next one. I do have to say that working on commercials was a great experience because each one was very different from the other.
How did you become interested in animation?
At first I didn’t quite know about animation. Since I remember I’ve liked drawing. I remember as a kid I loved Disney, Warner, Hanna-Barbera, UPA and all the classics. I have a good friend older than me who started in Continue reading
What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Robert Valley, currently I am working as character designer on the new Tron TV series. Â I also publish my own books (Massive Swerve) and make independent short films.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I have had all sorts of wonderful jobs, washing dishes, planting trees, driving taxi, I was even a licensed  realtor in Calgary Alberta for a while.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
Aeon Flux, with Peter Chung, and Gorillaz, Beatles Rock band with Pete Candeland. This last Tron project with  Charlie Bean was quite a good one too.
How did you become interested in animation?
Actually I always wanted to Continue reading
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I’ve never worked any crazy jobs, just boring. The job that was by far the most boring was scanning more than 1000 legal documents a day for 8 hour days with a 30 min lunch…I lasted about 4 months.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I animated on a series of commercials starring  personalities of Lebron James for commercial and development studio,Red Rover / House of Cool.
How did you become interested in animation?
I became interested in animation ever since I watched Continue reading
What is your name and your current occupation?
Spartaco Margioni- freelance artist/animator.
How did you become interested in animation?
I have always been able to draw since I was small and just truly enjoyed the old animated classics growing up. Once in school, I started to gravitate towards animation after trying Continue reading
