Pyjamas in North Sydney
The suburb of North Sydney bustles with people on a workday. You don’t want to be caught there in your pyjamas at lunch hour. Which is where I found myself.
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1983-2012: Recollections of the wandering freelance years of my animation career..
This Balanced Breakfast
An Apple Cinnamon Cheerios commercial, produced at Colossal Pictures in 1992.
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Before becoming coming a Saturday morning cartoon powerhouse, the STARTOONS studio was briefly located in downtown Chicago, where I worked for them one summer.
READ MORE..Fake Faces
Horror movies work on human anxieties built into us, but why do we have the fear of the almost human doppelgänger?
READ MORE..Notte del Ragno
I was fight-or-flight tensed for whatever soul searing scene the Fellini Express would deliver next – bag snatchers or god-knows-what..
READ MORE..The Grey Scribe
A troubadour bard accompanies us through life, composing ditties & tall tales of our deeds.
READ MORE..ILM 1998
I often don’t realise that I’m in a sweet spot till much later, but working on FRANKENSTEIN, I knew my luck even at the time.
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Early years working in Sydney animation were the apprenticeship that led to a long career.
READ MORE..Keelung-Naha-Tokyo, 1986
My understanding of Japan was minimal, when I first set foot upon its soil in Okinawa, at the age of 22.
READ MORE..RIFFS “Hip Hop”
The great thing about directing an animated commercial was designing characters, storyboard, layouts and animation too.
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