I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1965. I'm as old as Moore's Law, Gold's Gym and The Sound of Music. I went to high school and college in Pennsylvania and in 1988 I got a BA in English, computer graphics not existing as a major at the time.

I learned plenty at college but discovered more on my own programming graphics and games on my 16-color Commodore 64. Always interested in video, in 1990 I bought a 4096 color Amiga computer and taught myself animation. I learned Deluxepaint for 2D then the Video Toaster for video and eventually Lightwave 3 for 3D.

I started creating comedy videos. My short subject Nick Dixon Private Eye found distribution, won several awards and was shown in LA at the American Cinematheque and in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the Brooklyn Arts Council Fest.

In 1995 I rode to Los Angeles on a wave of development money flooding gaming with the release of the 65,000 color Sony Playstation. Hired as a texture artist I was soon disenchanted with the programmer mindset and adolescent chaos of gaming at the time. Also, hardware limitations then meant I had to make cars with lug nut wheels. After a year doing 3D games I switched to features, eventually taking a position at Flash Film Works where I've done many big budget studio movies starting with Deep Blue Sea. I've also written my first feature length comedy script, The Bodice Ripper and animated the opening shot.

I sometimes do large-scale commercials and TV series, such as the award winning Batman/Onstar Satellite series and the WB's opulent pilot for Birds of Prey.

I model, texture, light and animate in Lightwave 3D exclusively, composite in Digital Fusion and paint in Photoshop or Painter.

I live just off the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, CA, next to where actor River Phoenix OD'd, comedian John Belushi died, and writer F.Scott Fitzgerald drank himself to death. It's very artist friendly!  I enjoy movies, video games, The New York Times, hiking and working out. Wait, I don't enjoy working out at all but I do it.

When not animating movies I fix computers, both Mac and Windows, at people's homes and businesses. Click here for more. I've built dozens of computers from scratch and work on both single machines and networks. I've trained hundreds of people to use their first computer and I excel at making technophobes feel less afraid. 

My current PC handles more colors than the human eye can see but only displays 16.7 million.