I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

Basicly I'm in charge of all creative aspects of the show.

I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.