DAVID SCHWARTZ

David Schwartz began his career in animation in 1988 as a storyboard artist for the animated Alf series at DIC Entertainment. Since then he has worked as a supervising storyboard artist, character designer, background and prop designer, art director, writer, director and show creator for the Walt Disney Company, DIC Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Sony and the Cartoon Network. He has worked on such shows as The Simpsons, Rugrats, Gargoyles, Johnny Bravo, all the Disney and Warner Brothers animated series of the 90’s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and X-men. Before coming to the animation industry, David worked as a broadcaster in both radio and television, a magazine illustrator and as a writer, penciller and cover artist for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and Disney comics. He has been a fill-in penciller for the Rugrats comic strip and has worked as a gag writer for Disney’s Bonkers theatrical short and TV series, Marsupillami series, and the recent Three Musketeers movie starring Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck.

David has just finished storyboard supervising a new series at DIC Entertainment, and his 5 th year teaching storyboard classes at Santa Monica College.. Currently he’s storyboard supervising a new feature film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. for Imagi, and doing storyboards for the Stan Lee Project at Film Roman, Tutenstein at Porchlight Entertainment and Curious George for Universal Studios. In his spare time he is working on writing/drawing a horror graphic novel and perfecting BBQ ribs techniques.