
A
graduate of the Film and Television
Department of Montana State Universitiy,
Todd has 19 years of production experience in a wide variety
of formats and mediums.
He
has worked in live-action and mainstream animated forms
including classic cel animation, stop-motion, and digital
3D. He has worked on commercials, feautre films, TV series,
music videos, documentaries and even a theme park attraction.
Todd
spent almost a decade in Los Angeles working for studios
such as Playhouse Pictures, Duck Soup Producktions,
Sim Ex Digital, Cornell Abood, Rich Entertainment, Celluloid
Studios, Big Fish Studios, Klasky Csupo Commercials, &
Kurtz & Friends.
Clients
he has worked for include Universal Studios, Disney,
Pepsi, Microsoft, Keebler, General Mills, Post Foods, Burger
King, the California State Lottery, Marinela, Mattel Toys,
Danone, plus many more.
In
2006 Todd joined Big Bang Digital Studios to supervise the
3D animation of a new TV series Bigfoot
Presents Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks.
It was nominated in 2007 for a Daytime Emmy Award
in Children's Animated programming.
The
animated production Young
Abraham: From the Ancient Stories of the Israelites began
this same year and is currently in post-production, scheduled
for a direct-to-video release in early 2009.
Todd
is currently in preproduction on a 3D animated version of
Treasure Island.
This production will be a faithful adaptation of the Robert
Lewis Stevenson classic, and visually cued by the classic
illustrations of N. C. Wyeth.