Biography
A graduate of the Sheridan College Classical Animation program, Brian has worked in the animation industry for the past 21 years. He worked as an assistant animator on the feature film, Rock and Rule, character designer on the original Inspector Gadget series, and layout artist on Ewoks and Droids, Smurfs, Flintstone Kids, Laser Tag and Punky Brewster. He was the layout supervisor on Carebears and Teddy Ruxpin, and an animator on Y's the Magnificent and other short films. Brian has also worked as an illustrator for various advertising agencies whose clients included, Kellogg's, Nestle's Quik, Barbie, McDonald's, and Burger King.
His comic book character, The Zit was featured in a bi-monthly comic titled, Lethargic Comics which ran from 1991 - 1996. He was also the writer and artist for the Tex Avery line of comics published by Darkhorse Comics in 1994.
He was the Co-ordinator of the Classical Animation program at Sheridan College from 1996 - 2000. He was also an Instructor teaching Storyboarding, Layout, Character Design, Animation, Background Painting and Life Drawing from 1988 through 2000.
During this same time period he also wrote new curriculum for Sheridan College, the 1st year animation curriculum for the program at Studio Saskatoon, and the curriculum for the Limcockwing school in Taiwan.
Brian is currently Coordinator as well as teaching Animation and Animation History in the Traditional animation program at Seneca College in Toronto which he helped to set up in 2004.
In 1991 he began writing a series of books about the different aspects of animation. To date, he has written 8 books on the various animation processes, including; Designing Cartoon Characters for Animation Vol. 1, Layout and Design Made Amazingly Simple, The Advanced Layout and Design Workbook Layout Examples, Designing Cartoon Characters for Animation Vol. 2 and video Animation: The Basic Principles. These books are currently being used at many schools of animation across North America, Europe, and Asia.
His book, The Advanced Layout and Design Workbook was recently translated into Korean and adopted into the curriculum of the animation schools there. There are further plans to translate the remainder of his books into Korean, Chinese and Japanese.
He is currently also producing, writing and animating: Storyboarding for Animation, The Animation Drawing Video Series.
