What is your name and your current occupation?
Ray Alma. Â I currently work full time doing storyboards and animatics at Larry Schwartz and His Band (formally Animation Collective) Â I also freelance as an illustrator for magazines and do freelance storyboarding for advertising.
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I spent 2 weeks working as a staff artist at World Wrestling Entertainment in Stamford, CT. I had to draw wrestlers for comic books and lunchboxes, that kind of stuff. They let me go because they didn’t think I drew leg muscles well enough.
What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I was a fairly regular freelance artist contributor to Mad magazine from 1996 to about 2003. Mad magazine inspired me to become a cartoonist so being able to become one of the “Usual Gang of Idiots” was a life long dream.
How did you become interested in animation?
I always loved animation, and when illustration work started to Continue reading
