Spawn Animation: One-On-One With Spawn Director Chuck Patton

By Janet Jaramillo

Conversations with animation director Chuck Patton on working with Todd, working with Film Roman vs. HBO on the same property, and working in animation as a director in the 21st century.

How did you get started in the animation business?
CP: I actually started my career in comics, as an artist. I was self-taught, although I have a degree in art. I passed on a journalism degree to go to New York to join DC Comics to be an artist on Justice League of America. I was turned on to animation through a friend who was working in Los Angeles making way more money than most of the guys I knew in the comic business.

I was never a fan of television animation, so I was apprehensive about making a move away from comics. But I was becoming disillusioned with the comic business and I was ready to move on. A company offered me really good money, because they wanted an art director with a background in comics, so I moved to LA and started a career in animation.

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