I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it.
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.