Joseph Apel:  

Life Currently I'm living near Boston, Massachusetts where I'm animating for an NBC/Discovery Kids show, Time Warp Trio, airing Saturday mornings on NBC. Since high school, I've lived in Pittsburgh, New York, San Bernadino, and now Boston. It took me a while, but I'm finally doing what I love, animation. College What college didn't I go to? After high school, I attended Wayne State University in the Fine Arts program. Not completely happy there, I decided to transfer to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and enrolled in the animation program. Practically miserable there, I decided to go back to Wayne State and finish up my BFA with a concentration in drawing. Upon graduation, I moved to New York. Not finding the job I wanted (animation), I decided to take some continuing education courses at the School of Visual Arts. I realized that I needed to go back to school, if I wanted a job in animation. SVA was too expensive (and so was NYC), I decided to move back to Michigan and attend the College for Creative Studies, enrolling in their animation program. I got my second BFA this time in Animation and Digital Media, within three years. 2 BFA's later, I'm fina...Expand for more