Dave Warren Animator/Founder CHANNELZERO Creator of SoSophie

• I realized I wanted to be in animation:
...watching Bugs Bunny on television as a little boy. Those old Warner's cartoons inspired me to draw and laugh and make other people laugh. I never really looked at animation as something I wanted to be "in". I saw it as this magical form of art, very rhythmic, like music, where your creations move and take on a life of their own. The first time I was consumed with dreams of animation grandeur was when I saw Heavy Metal while I was still in high school. Where I grew up it wasn't a movie, it was an event. In it's day there was nothing quite like it. Having a band like Black Sabbath on a soundtrack was unheard of. It was sex, drugs and rock and roll in a cartoon. What more could a stoned, punk ass, seventeen year old teenage boy want?

• When I was a kid:
...I got busted by my mom with a drawing I did of Marcia Brady naked. I was too little to know the difference between boys and girls so poor Marcia ended up with male genitalia. It was my first lesson in anatomy.

• My parents wanted me to be:
…out of the house as soon as humanly possible.

Animation Magazine President Jean Thoren and Dave Warren take time for a picture at NATPE 2002

• My first job (of any kind) was:
…emptying the sanitation boxes in the ladies room at the welfare office.

• My first big break in animation was:
... I was hired as a character designer on Ralph Bakshi's Spicy City for HBO by two of the best people in animation, Catherine Winder and Eric Radomski.

• My career in animation is most influenced by:
…Chuck Jones and John K.

• I'm most proud of:
…my two daughters Melody and Franki.

•One thing I would change about the animation business is:
…I'd stop accountants from making cartoons, ban cubicles like smoking and have daily massages included as part of your pay plan.

• The animated character I'm most like is:
...Johnny Bravo.

• What I'd like to be doing in 10 years:
...this only with a much larger bank account.