Pre-School Days
Hey All You Pre-School Cartoon Kiddies!!! I thought I’d draw something that sort of represents my pre-school days on the animation playground here at Nickelodeon. It’s been a lot of fun, and I would say the biggest and most rewarding challenges in my career, producing Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go and Ni Hao Kailan for Nickelodeon. Since starting here in 2000 during the first season of Dora the Explorer, I’m happy to say I’ve been involved with about 250 combined episodes of pre-school television, along with the best crews anyone could ever be with. You get to use the right and left sides of your brain constantly, in order to “reverse engineer” your film-making knowledge in order to adapt to a pre-schoolers way of thinking and vision. The kids love them, and we make a difference in their lives everyday! That’s the bottom line for me! You’re never too old to be a pre-schooler. As my mentor and good friend Chuck Jones said, “We’re all fake adults” for we all have little kids inside all of us! Take care gang and I’ll see you on the playground. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Your Pre-school Pals…….Dora, Kailan, Diego and Jeff
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