Commercials

Alas, at times I had to whore myself out animating commercials to make rent. I did what I had to do. Sometimes it made me feel gross and cheap inside but then I would step back and realize I was drawing for a living and that I was pretty lucky in that regard. However, selling crap was never my goal and eventually I realized it was not getting me any closer to my goal of working on films, so in 2005 I quit the commercial studio where I was working at the time, Wild Brain, to try to make a short film. I pitched a few light-hearted commercial concepts to  Chris Prynoski, who was just getting things going at Titmouse. Chris encouraged me to make a film I really cared about and he would produce it if I came to LA. I dug deeper and came up with the idea for 'Pinched'.