One of my first animation jobs as a Character Modeler working on the the pilot episode of "Rugrats" (Circa 1989-90). Here are some of my development sketches for the "Tommy Pickles" character. Since this was my first animation design job, I was still learning and Peter Chung was gracious enough to show me the ropes in character development and modeling. We were actually developing the characters as we were also in production. I remember Gábor Csupó called me and Peter into a meeting one day and showed us his character sketch ideas that were literally drawn on a restaurant napkin and he said he wanted something like this. Looking back I was extremely lucky and fortunate to be working with Gábor Csupó and Peter Chung. I didn't mention this before, but Lynn Naylor and John Kricfalusi of Spumco at that time recommended me to Libby Simon one of the producers on the show.
