My first animations were done in the early 1980's when I was a Senior Research Staff Artist at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory. My last 3D animations were done during my early years as a professor at Pratt Institute, including an animation I did for Frank Stella.

For the next decades, my animation work consisted of teaching, lecturing, and writing. I wrote a technical textbook (W.W.Norton), that was published in three editions and four languages, as well as a set of online tutorials for the Maya software package. And I taught and advised my MFA students at Pratt, one of whom won the Student Academy Award for best student animation, another of whom won the Emmy Award in the same category, and many of whom exhibited and screened their thesis animations internationally and went on to prominent positions in the industry.