"Your drawings stink and you're not funny." Damon's 3rd grade teacher loudly pronounced in front of all 28 of her students before sending him to the principal's office. Undeterred, he continued to draw pictures of his friends and teachers, however unfunny they might be.

Remarkably, Damon heard those exact words from a college professor after enrolling in a figure drawing class. Apparently, nude models don't like to see thought bubbles above their heads and was quickly shuttled out of class into the cold, dark computer lab. With only the sound of clunky computers and dripping coffee, Damon helped create two student films that were eventually screened in such places as Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Film Festival, the Short Attention Span Film Festival, and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

With those animations under his belt, he bribed his way into Alias|Wavefront as a tech support rep. There, Damon confused and bewildered customers for over 4 ½ years, both on the phones and in the training room where he was tasked with teaching what others strangely described as voodoo, or Maya as other industry types know it. With a boot to the rump and locked up doors behind him, he finally landed with PDI/Dreamworks and is now an animator working on the upcoming movie Madagascar, as well as holding a credit to the 2004 blockbuster Shrek 2.

He currently lives in Northern California with his wife Tricia and her 2 allergens...err cats where he is still making unfunny pictures of his 3rd grade teacher.