EXPERIENCE

Convergence

The Web gets Real

Transitional Surge

Before It Was the Web

Animator for "Make a Wish", a children's program that aired on ABC. This was probably my first real (i.e. paid-to-be-a-professional) media job.

I created short animation snippets for the show at newly-formed Lisberger-Ladd Studio in Boston. We were to take a word or phrase and animate it. My word was "mark". My snippets included

• "Hit the mark" An archer strains mightily to pull back his bow, releases it and .... (camera pan-zooms to the target) he is impaled head-first in the bullseye.
• "Mark Antony" orates, "Friends, Romans, countrymen - Lend me your ears!" and is immediately showered with a flurry of ears.
• "Bookmark" A book laying on a desk opens, the bookmark slides out, puts on glasses, and starts reading (For a brief moment the title of the book appears: "Marx")

Et cetera...

I'd met Steven Lisberger a couple of years previously while in college. He went on to become a successful animation director, creating the groundbreaking video-game-based feature animation for Disney: "TRON"