JODY GRAY Owner and Chief Composer Gray Noise Music

• I realized I wanted to be in animation when I saw:
…Daffy blown up and blackened w/beak turned around. Then completely unhurt in the following scene. Aha! Immortality.

• When I was a kid I:
a) drew everything
b) made my own comicbook
c) animated with my parents' stopframe Super 8 camera (mainly of dinosaurs)
d) organized other kids in the neighborhood
e) spent too much time in my room
f) ALL OF THE ABOVE other (please elaborate): made up perverse lyrics to the "I'm Goin' Koo Koo" song.

• My parents wanted me to be:
…not homeless

• My first job (of any kind) was:
…at a car wash for (almost) one day. Accidentally ripped a customers front fender off.

• My first big break in animation was:
…scoring John R. Dilworth's first Noodles & Nedd short in '95 or '96.

• My career in animation is most influenced by:
…Carl Stalling and 1940's WB cartoons in general and Stanley Kubrick.

• I'm most proud of:
…recently: Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes " The Tower Of Dr. Zalost," "Human Habitrail," and "The Ride Of the Valkyries."

• One thing I would change about the animation business is:
…hire more orchestras and then hire me to write 'n conduct for them.

• The animated character I'm most like is:
…Pepe Le Pew, A romantic, oblivious loser.

• What I'd like to be doing in 10 years:
…the same only more so. And for lots more money.