Over the years I saw Dave work on numerous high profile projects, with world renowned brands for Disney/Pixar, Pokemon, Hasbro, Nickelodeon, and Sesame Workshop just to name a few. A few accolades include the Disney/Pixar Ratatouille video game he helped lead for LeapFrog sold over 400K units in the first quarter of its release, and won multiple awards, including a Parents' Choice Award. Dave oversaw the creative direction of over 640 linear minutes of online animation for Pokémon, resulting in 13 awards and untold numbers of fans, which I continue to hear from to this day for the love of the product he helped define. His creative leadership with Hasbro and The Hub with the reboot of My Little Pony, directing websites and creating sticky games and activities. As our client later told us about this work, it "blew the doors off" of any other promotion the company had put out previously. Or helping to defining the creative and visual direction of two language learning apps for Rosetta Stone's fledgling kids division, resulting in over 900,000 app downloads in it's first year out, with glowing reviews from Forbes Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and others..

I could go on with many more examples of how Dave has significantly moved the needle with his creative oversight. Dave has successfully lead the creative and visual direction of more products and brands than most people I know.

What was also wonderful to witness is how Dave mentored so many young artists and illustrators over the years, many of which whose careers have blossomed in spectacular ways, much in the same manner as Dave's path.

I've learned many things about quality art, story telling and design from Dave, and it was an amazing ride working together. I wouldn't trade it for the world, and would work with him again in a heartbeat given the chance.