Welcome to my world! My world is not a place of glitz, glamor or cookie-cutter 'Hollywood'. Instead, as with so many of my fellow independently-minded 2D artists and animators, I toil in the trenches - where every day there is a battle for commercial acceptance and respect for what we do and what we continually try to do. Yet I do sniff a hint of defiance the air. I look around and smile as I see that other animators beginning to raise their pencils once again! Predictable corporate Hollywood may have given up on us but thankfully the animators who have survived its cull are still skilled and passionate enough to want to show the world what 2D animation can yet do! Let's all hear it for the humble pencil!