I was born and raised in South Africa, but now I live in California with my wonderful wife Ronél and our three sons, Nicolas, Conrad and Dewald. I’m fortunate enough to work at the best animation studio in the world – Pixar. I graduated in 1996 from The Ohio State University with a PhD in Computer Graphics. After graduation, we returned to South Africa where I worked at the Satellite Applications Centre for 5.5 years before coming back to the USA to live my dream – creating animated feature films for a living!