Eric graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1991 with a BFA in Film/TV. During his time there he created his first animated film, titled Mutilator: Hero Of the Wasteland, a film which one professor sighted as being "inappropriate due to its violent content." Mutilator would go on to win NYU's Award of Excellence in Animation and become a cult favorite of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Eric continued to produce animated shorts and soon his reel came across the desk of an executive at MTV Animation. In 1994, at age of twenty-four, Eric created his first animated series for MTV. The Head was a bizarre show about a high-spirited alien named Roy, who survived on Earth by living inside the head of an everyman named Jim. The show, which blended sci-fi action and comedy, ran for two seasons and spawned a graphic novel for Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster. For his next series, Eric was determined to revive the seemingly lost art of stop-motion animation. The pitch was simple: Celebrities square off in a ring and proceed to beat the pulp out of one another…in clay. Celebrity Deathmatch premiered in 1998 during the Super Bowl Halftime and turned out to be the highest rated special in the history of MTV. The show was popular enough for Eric to be named one of the most creative people in the TV industry by Entertainment Weekly. Four seasons and nearly a hundred episodes later, Deathmatch is known the world over and remains one of MTV's highest rated shows. In 2003 Eric opened Animotion Unlimited, a New York based animation studio. Currently, he is developing shows for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, as well as a half-hour comedy for ABC. In addition, Eric is working out of Curious Pictures, NYC, where he is directing his second Barbie, My Scene movie for Mattel.
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