I was born in NYC, and grew up in a nearby Connecticut suburb. I moved out to California in '99 to study VFX and animation after a brief 2 year stint studying mechanical engineering at UMass Amherst. After graduating Otis in LA, I got into freelancing on tv commercials, as an animator, modeler, texturer, rigger, renderer, lighter, particles guy. Realizing that animation was the only part of all that work that I liked, I packed up yet again, and decided in 2005 to move north and study character animation at the Academy of Art San Francisco. Now I am in the land of Happy Cows, keyframing and sipping coffee, in a giant converted aircraft hangar called Nihilistic Software working on their current title.