More staff pictures

Here are a bunch of pics from Marco. Thanks for sharing!

Vince at his "ivory tower" desk

Djordge at the community internet computer. It's scary to think that this was our only connection to the WWW at the time.

Mike Feeney in his cozy cube

Kurt on the community phone. All the animators and assistants shared one line.

Doug, Andy, and Adrian. This was the layout department, where Doug did almost all our animation layouts at the time.

Caroline and Katie

The Three Stooges

Here's a picture of Me, Kevin Barber, and Jay Peltz back around 1995. Kevin is as crazy as ever, and Jay just would never shut up ;) Kevin and Jay graduated from Startoons and went on to work on several feature films at Disney Orlando (Lilo and Stitch among my favorites).

I'm happy to say I work with Kevin again, and I'm looking forward to a reunion with Jay at Comic-Con this year.

Here's a picture of Jay hiding in a bowl of apples. He sure was a sneaky guy.

A Wild and Crazy Guy

Ever since his arrival at Startoons in 1995, Artist extraordinaire Phil Gullett was a one man party machine. Sort of a John Kricfalusi of his time - you couldn't keep him away from the young bitches. Late nights drinking and smoking were the regular scene for him. Only recently, after Phil contracted an extreme case of Boneitis, did he begin to slow off of his wild ways and begin going to bed at a regular time. I'm happy to say Phil is now alive and well with a cushy job and is continuing to draw laugh scribbles to this day. Keep it real Kool Kat!

Ty and Doc

When Startoons hired staff to handle the shows we worked on for Animaniacs season four, the full time staff doubled almost overnight. Here is a shot taken in the assistant's room at the 900 ridge road building of Ty Jones and Mike "Doc" Reidy. This little room housed about maybe 5 guys when it really fit about 3. As I remember, they shared the space with Mike Feeney, Mike Fritz, and Vince Proce. It also fit a slop sink for the BG department paints, although we were moving to digital production for our commercial work so it didn't get much use other than to clean some coffee cups :)

Ty worked for Startoons on two separate occasions, and was doing animation for Startoons on his second tour of duty. The character I most remember Ty animating was the Lion in Tommy Nelson's "The Crippled Lamb" special, voiced by Mark Hamill. I also remeber Ty being pretty darn good at the video game Tekken on Playstation 1. Doc did a lot of assisting at Startoons. He worked through the Animaniacs and Histeria shows, and I believe some of the one-off shows like "Bingo" and "Watts on your Mind". Interesting fact, Doc was a model for Alex Ross' Uncle Sam character. After Startoons, I remeber Doc working for Chicago's Calabash animation and Cartoon Network in Atlanta.