Showing posts with label Blue Sky Studios. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue Sky Studios. Show all posts

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Taking Care of Dad

Oscar H. Moore, a.k.a. Dad.
I spent the first 19 years of my professional career living in an industry Never Never Land, a place where my life could be all about animation.  My troubles were cartoon troubles.  I knew that heavy, grown-up problems existed in the world, but I had somehow dodged them for twenty years while pursuing  animation glory in Hollywood.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

The day the Chancellor of the Exchequer called me a Luddite


Me in my 2D days
Years ago, back in 1999, I was working at DreamWorks in Los Angeles when some old University friends came to stay. They were Frances Osbourne and her new husband, George. At the time George was a wannabe Tory MP, working his way up the greasy political pole and hoping to get elected, far from the financial and political power he wields today.