John Belcher

John Allen Belcher Jr

As a child, I never knew what I wanted to become. I would spend hours playing with my

toys, creating adventures about a boy who lived in the woods and his search for his father. Even

though I made this story back in 2001, I still remember everything I created. It wasn’t until I

learned about animation that I realized that I want to make this story come to life.

As for my influences, Gábor Csupó and Arlene Klasky both who created the Rugrats,

which was the first animation I remember watching. Other animation artist who also inspire and

influenced me are Genndy Tartakovsky, Butch Hartman, Alex Hirsch and Rebecca Sugar,

Eiichiro Oda and Akira Toriyama. Each who shows taught me the importance to character, and

story.

I want to be an animator because when I was a child I enjoyed watching cartoons and now

that I’m older and working on animated projects I get the same enjoyment. I hope one day the

stories I end up making will create the same enjoyment to other children as much as cartoons did

for me when I was their age.