Dave Bossert & Aljon Go talk to Mark Simon, Producer/Director/Story Artist about his career in film, television, and storyboarding. They also touch on the latest film and pop-culture Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars news.

Mark Simon counts more than 30 years of experience working in the entertainment industry as a producer and director for live-action and animation, writing and lecturing, and amassing over 5,000 production credits.

Mark is currently storyboarding the hit series The Walking Dead and provides full animatics for the series. He also produced the animation for Fox’s film Tooth Fairy 2, starring Larry the Cable Guy, and is the animation producer on Universal’s current release of the Little Rascals movie. Timmy’s Lessons In Nature, the animated shorts which Mark Simon developed, directed, and produced, won Grand Prize in Nickelodeon’s first-ever Nicktoons Film Festival. He was also head of the story on WB’s Hong Kong Phooey feature starring Eddie Murphy and on the animated feature, Barbie: Video Game Hero.

Mark was part of the Toon Boom animation team which won the 2012 Prime Time Engineering Emmy for the Storyboard Pro software. He was also inducted into the DAVE SCHOOL (Digital Animation & Visual Effects School) Hall of Fame in 2012. Learn more about Mark Simon at Storyboard & Animatics, Inc. (storyboards-east.com).

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