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It's Complicated

City, Country

Loony town USA

Birth Date

July 21, 1958

About Me:

Starting as far back as I can remember, around the age of five I suppose, I needed to quench my thirst, my burning desire for answers to the curious world around me. I wanted to silence the incessant voice in my head that constantly repeated the word why.

Who am I? I am Mr. Mike, and that is how the 1600 plus children I taught fine art to refer to me. My career started with the desire to figure out how and why things worked. I had to draw, to entertain my mind, to disassemble the assembled … I drew everything from rocks and sticks to clocks and can openers and even the occasional cartoon character! For me even a pile of junk could be manipulated into a master piece!

I suppose I was never truly normal, something I can now see in hindsight. Although at the time, I wanted to be like everyone else, and in your childhood you assume you are like everyone else … I was being conditioned to be what people who labeled people normal wanted me to be. However, their perspective of normal frightened me more than my fear of being unique.

I was, and still truly am, flat out creative. Whether I am accepted by the masses, popular or not, I am what I am, an artist. I was always drawing and taking pictures, and when my parents would let me, I would take black and white pictures with a family brownie camera and make short 8 mm film with a Kodak movie camera. Unfortunately, however, funding often times covered the purchase but not the development of film.

Elementary school for me, as with most people, was eye opening. The numbing experience, of the daily routine, of Mrs. Rolland swatting my left hand with a ruler to make me use a pencil with my right hand was as sharp a memory as loving those chocolate chip cookies as big as my head. After three years of elementary school bad grades, Mrs. Gahanna discovered I couldn’t see the board ... In fact I couldn’t see much past my nose. So, at age 8, after three years of sitting in the back of the classroom, in a colorful blur, I realized my vision was far less than close to normal. After spending what seemed like years of testing to determine whether or not I could recognize the letters and numbers, the evil doctor Eagleberg presented me with a pair of glasses so thick I could fry an egg on the side walk in less than a minute. Viola! I could see!

I did at times wonder how my path lead me to become a CGI animation movie maker and after working several days on the thought, maybe weeks, time seems irrelevant, I discovered the events, the turning points, the key frames, that determined how and why I got to where I am and why you’re watching what I make, and to point out a portion of the contributing factors, here they are!

I was adopted into a family. My father, mother, and younger brother were all very creative people! My parents worked at Disney. My dad was an imagineer, and he designed rides including Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion. He went on to design the Lunar Lander for NASA and the space shuttle main engine before succumbing to Alzheimer. My mom painted cells for animated motion pictures and passed on as a prescription drug addict. My brother was an artist and designer for Bob Mackey until his death related to AIDS. Together, they helped me realize that the path less traveled was the correct path for me.

I have been making movies since I was nine years old in one form or another. For the past eight years, I have been using CGI exclusively to make my movies at Vision Animation Studio. CGI allows me to bring to life anything my mind can imagine.

These, along with many other experiences have forged my mind, my attitude, and my soul into who I am. I am an artist with the desire to entertain and to send the message that everything is possible. Just look what I can do!

Please join me on my site as we explore with other positively minded VAS members How to change the world with our positive conscious efforts! Together we can achieve remarkable differences!

Website:

http://visionanimation.ning.com/

How did you find us

I think it was destiny

may I ask for your asistance please

May I please ask you for your assistance?

I need your help I have entered four animations into the HAff film festival. They are all posted on YouTube please view comment and rate maybe this will help with the judging of them if you rate and comment on them... this can only be done if you click on the video it will take you to YouTube to rate and comment… thank you so much and above all they are there to help you laugh, that is why I made them!
This is all my personal work!
Thank you
Mr. Mike