Boundary-less creative vision coupled with practical network television and independent film experience. Respects his team, respects the deadlines, and has fun in the conception.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Producer of The Sensible Thing a live action film adapted from a F. Scott Fitzgerald short story for PBS and featured in Entertainment Weekly Magazine’s - What to Watch This Week
• Director/Animator of The Lizard Whomper* judged Grand Prize Winner by filmmaker Les Blank in the 97 San Francisco Cacophony Society Drive-In Film Festival
• Lead Animator on Gary & Mike UPN (2001), Comedy Central (2003)
ANIMATION - Director
Director / Animator – The Answer, Animated Alchemy, LA, CA Fall 2003
• Stop-motion animated short touring with Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation
Director/ Animator / Performer - Ghostriders, Animated Alchemy, LA, CA. Fall 2003
• Stop-motion / live action / cable puppet / computer composite music video parody
Director / Animator - If I Had a Hammer, Know Your Monkey Productions, SF, CA. Spring 97
• Stop-motion animation / computer composite short film.
Director / Animator - The Lizard Whomper, Know Your Monkey Productions, SF, CA. 95
• Festival Award winning stop-motion short , broadcast television in Spain, Holland, Portugal, France and cable worldwide on the Bravo! Network. Released on video: Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted #4 and DVD Slamdance Dirty Dozen-II DVD*
Animation Director– Not a BECK Music Video, XOW!, LA, CA Fall 2005
• Stop-motion animation / computer composite music video concept for BECK-Qué Onda Guero unvailed at ComicCon 05
Animation Director – Facing that Void, Music Bakery, SF, CA Spring 2004
• Stop-motion animation / marionette music video for the French hip hop band "The General Electrics".
ANIMATION - Producer
Producer - Squeezils: The Movie! Protozoa Inc. SF, CA. Fall 96
• Four minute animated short for CDROM game. Winner of best animation from a CDROM at The World Animation Celebration.
Producer - Levi’s Jeans for Women Fall Concept, Foote, Cone and Belding, SF, CA. 1994
• Cut-out animation segment of concept video for Fall line of clothing
ANIMATION – Animator / Lead
Lead Animator – Gary & Mike, Will Vinton Studios, Portland, OR 2000-2001
• Stop-motion animated primetime television show produced by Bahr/Small for UPN Television and Comedy Central.
Animator – Buy Me, HGTV, Hollywood, CA Winter 2006
• Stop-motion animated commercial for Home & Garden Network – directed by Misha Klein.
Animator –Norah Jones – Sinkin’ Soon, Partizan Entertainment, LA ,CA. Fall 2006
• Stop-motion animated Music Video for Norah Jones song Sinkin’ Soon from Not To Late .
Animator – Holidaze – The Xmas That Almost Didn’t Happen, BixPix, LA ,CA. 2006
• Stop-motion animated Xmas special for ABC Television.
Animator – Otafuka Rex – Do Me I’m the Best, XOW!, LA, CA Spring 2006
• Stop-motion animated music video for Otafuka Rex – directed by Eric Towner.
Animator – Robot Chicken, Shadow Animation, Hollywood , CA 2005-07
• Seth Green's Stop-motion animated television show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
Animator – Moral Oral, Fragical Productions, Hollywood , CA 2005-06
• Dino Stamatopoulos' stop-motion animated TV show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
Animator – Disaster - The Movie, High Spirits, Inc. Hollywood , CA Fall 2004
• The first ever "R" rated Stop-motion animated feature film directed by Roy T. Wood. Theatrical release scheduled for Summer 2006.
Animator – The Statistics Show: Pilot, MTV, Hollywood , CA Spring 2004
• Stop-motion animated television pilot directed by Roy T. Wood for MTV.
Animator – The PJ’s, Will Vinton Studios, Portland, OR 1998-2000
• Stop-motion animated primetime television show for Fox TV & Warner Bros. Television.
Animator – Insect Poetry, Marilyn Zornado, Portland, OR 2000
• Animated Ms Moth in this stop-motion homage to poetry, nature, books, and calligraphy.
Animator - The Online Adventures of Ozzie the Elf, Vinton Studios, Novato, CA. Fall 97
• Stop-motion animated primetime special for ABC television.
Animator - The Claytons, Danger Productions /Warner Bros. TV, San Raphael, CA. 1997
• Stop-motion animated pilot for development of 30 min. primetime animated sitcom.
Animator - Squeezils, Protozoa Inc. SF, CA. Fall 96
• Created stop-motion capture animated cycles for a CDROM game.
Animator - Bump in the Night, Danger Productions, Brisbane, CA. 94-95
• Stop-motion television series produced for ABC / Greengrass productions
Animator - Bump EA Game, Danger Productions / Entertainment Arts Brisbane, CA. 1995
• Stop-motion animated game for Sega Saturn Platform
Animator - Clayfighter IIId, Danger Productions /Interplay, Brisbane, CA. Summer 95
• Stop-motion animated fighting game for Sony Play Station
Animator - Light to Rife, Hole in the City Productions, SF, CA. Fall 93
• Cut-out animation short
LIVE ACTION - Director
Director – SwankyOke!, Teaser DV AllStars, LA, CA. Fall 2003
• live action / computer composite "Reality TV" pilot teaser.
Director – MR MYSTIC Live!, DV AllStars, Pier 36 SF, CA. Spring 2003
• Four Camera Shoot shoot and edit of live stage performance for entertainer MR. MYSTIC.
Director - Cardio Swing DV AllStars, Burbank, CA. Spring 2003
• Three Camera shoot in Burbank and Santa Monica for a Fitness Video .
Director – Probe: The Abduction of MR. MYSTIC, DV AllStars, SF, CA. Winter 2002
• Live action / computer composite short video for entertainer MR. MYSTIC.
Director – The Danger Tour, DV AllStars, SF, CA. Fall 2002
• Three camera shoot of eight live stage performances for entertainer MR. MYSTIC.
Director – The Delancy Street Experience 2002, DV AllStars, Pier 36 SF, CA. Fall 2002
• Three camera shoot and edit of live stage performance for entertainer MR. MYSTIC.
Director – Nick Foster & His Big Band Revue, DV AllStars, SF, CA. Spring 2002
• Live action / computer composite television spot.
Director – MR. MYSTIC OUT THERE, DV AllStars, SF, CA. Summer 2002
• Live action / computer composite promotional video.
LIVE ACTION - Producer
Producer - The Sensible Thing, Empathy Films, SF, CA. Winter 96
• 30 minute live action film adapted from a F. Scott Fitzgerald short story for PBS Broadcast
on American Storytellers
RELATED SKILLS
Motion Capture Performer - Squeezils: The Movie! Protozoa Inc. SF, CA. Fall 96
• Four minute animated short for CDROM game. Winner of best animation from a CDROM at
The World Animation Celebration.
Character Fabricator- The Nightmare Before Christmas, Skellington Productions SF, CA. 92-93
• Assembling, painting and maintaining puppets and related props (hard and soft parts)
Camera Technician- Cine Rent West SF, CA. 91-92
• Repairing and service of 35mm Panavision, Arriflex and Mitchell cameras and lenses
* THE LIZARD WHOMPER FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
GRAND PRIZE - San Francisco Cacophony Society Drive In Film Festival - 1997
BEST ANIMATED FILM - Tacoma Tortured Artist Film Festival - 1997
HONORABLE MENTION - Central Florida Film Festival - 1997
ANARCHY WINNER JUL/AUG – Slamdance Online Film Festival - 2001
Official Selection of the following festivals:
Cannes International Film Festival (with Best of Anarchy) - 2001
Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation - 1996
New York Underground Film Festival - 1997
Chicago Underground Film Festival - 1997
Slamdance Film Festival - 1997
New York Expo Film Festival - 1997
San Francisco Film Arts Foundation Film Festival 1997
Texas Film Festival - 1997
