Attended Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida from
1995 to 1999, majoring in Computer Animation, earning a Bachelor of
Fine Arts.
Once suggested by a friend to enter an animation contest
online for Showtime Networks. After time went by and assuming that he
had lost the contest, he found an envelope on his doorstep, one
morning, announcing he had won the $20,000 grand prize.
His grandfather, Alvin, co-developed the first still camera to be used
on the surface of the moon, as well as working with Dr. Ray Damadian on
developing the superconducting technology for the very first MRI, at
Westinghouse in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
Shares the same birthday as Danny DeVito, Howard Dean, Tom Seaver,
Lauren Hutton, Martin Scorsese, RuPaul, Jeff Buckley, Sophie Marceau,
Daisy Fuentes, Dylan Walsh, SNL creator Lorne Michaels, Rock Hudson and
Stephen Root.