Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, I knew I wanted to make films by the age of five. Specifically action films. If there was action in it, I wanted to see it (not that I was always allowed). If cars were slamming into one another or fists were smashing into faces, or even if people were simply being thrown through windows, I wanted to see it.

This all came together as I reached my teens and my love of action sequences transitioned into storytelling. I truly became obsessed with storytelling. I became obsessed with antagonist and protagonists. I became obsessed with upstanding, moral characters who are not only pushed to their limit, but then go to push themselves beyond their limit. And not for gold or riches, but for a greater cause. I love the sort of hero you would find in comic books and Saturday morning cartoons, or often in anime and manga. I would attack the comic book shop once a week (a shop in Rockford, Ill called “Tomorrow is Yesterday”). Those were great times… influential times.

When it was time for me to graduate high school I already knew what I was going to major in during college; Film Production. Of course, little did I know the small film school I was about to attend had their own vision of filmmaking, believing that a story could be told without the time and cost of demanding action sequences. Often, without the support of the faculty, I found a way to slip it in, preferring to show a character’s determination and often evolution that can only be portrayed through action scenes.

Upon graduation I made the move to Los Angeles, sans job. But soon found myself working at a visual fx facility on feature films. After spending a few years there I moved over to videogames, curious of the capabilities and possibilities there are in storytelling and action scenes in gaming.  I have recently returned to visual fx in film, all along the way finding time to shoot my own short films, the latest being “The Living Sword”.