What is your name and your current occupation?
Dave Redl. Â Gun for hire cartoonist/animator/animation director and for corporate America, “New Media Director” (which means I make stuff move on computers.)
I worked in construction building low income housing in Newark NJ where I saw a 10 year old strip an abandoned car under a minute while nailing up roofing shingles.  I worked in a garden center that was struck by lightning and crashed a golf cart used to transport flats of geraniums because I was listening to Led Zeppelin on my Walkman.  I worked a night shift at a factory loading clothes onto trucks with a dude named Steve, also a Zeppelin fan, who proudly showed me a corner in the rafters that was hidden from security cameras, perfect for naps and complete with a potato sac bed.  Unfortunately, I split before solving the mystery of which restroom was used by fellow co-worker, “Roberto” who had ridiculously enormous and feminine breasts.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
All of them. Â If they put food on the table and made my boss happy… I was proud of them. Â Not every gig you get looks good, possibly due to “tweaking” or “corporate politics” so you must find pride in doing what you can with what you got. Â For example, I was Layout Animation Supervisor, where I drew nothing for a TV show canceled during production! Â But the people I worked with had kind things to say. Â That left me proud of being a good boss even though I have nothing on my reel to show for it.
How did you become interested in animation?
For as long as I can remember. Â But growing up on The Smurfs, I preferred
