Artfool Films

Odd Films and Experiments by Jack Myers.

I grew up with meager resources but had tremendously supportive parents, my father being the art teacher at my high school. They scraped up enough to gift me an Atari 800xl in 7th grade where I first dabbled in animation. I would later earn a scholarship to attend the Memphis College of Art in 1989, where I took advantage of their new Mac lab and taught myself Photoshop, Illustrator etc. After graduating I worked at Kinko's to maintain access to a Mac, learning more apps. I moved to San Francisco and after a couple years toiling in copy shops managed to land a job at DesignSite, a wonderful design firm lead by Tracy Dean in Berkeley where I taught myself After Effects and some long dead 3D programs, eventually making "Food", a short film that changed my life. After moving to NYC, "Food" landed on PBS where director Braden King saw it and introduced me to producer Hilary Downes who ushered me into the NYC animation studio world.