Ace of Harbor Bay

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Harbor Bay Island - Alameda, CA

Hi my name is Ace. I’m married (my wife’s name is Lisa), I have 2 daughters, one a junior in high school, the other is married and has 2 children herself. Yes, I’m a grandfather. And now the “real” bio (even written in the 3rd person! ooooh, aaaahhh) Everything you never needed to know...<br><br>Ace has always been a performer. Starting as a rogue pyrate for Hallowe’en when he was 5 years of age. Eventually making a living for 15 years as a magician, cutting people into different parts or making them float or disappear and then branching out into eating fire, swallowing swords, lying on a bed of nails, juggling everything from fire and knives to bowling balls, performing ventriloquism or escaping from straight jackets at corporate events and amusement parks. This all topped off by performances on the Disney Channel, Evening Magazine and comedy shows on A&E.<br><br>After producing, directing and performing a show for Paramount’s Great America that ran 6 shows a day, 6 days a week for 2 full seasons Ace decided it was time for a change…<br><br>Ace began his career in animation and effects more than fourteen years ago working on Disney’s “Ghosts, Myths and Legends of the Queen Mary”. From there he moved on to the game industry as a sr. animator working on titles for Atari Games such as: Virtua Racing for the Sega Saturn, San Francisco RUSH! for the N64, and was lead artist for Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey.<br><br>During this time Ace also began teaching animation and 3D modeling for the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and taught 3D animation seminars in New York, California and Tokyo, Japan at industry conventions. As if he wasn’t busy enough, also wrote numerous articles in industry publications, contributed to books and produced a series of popular 3D modeling training tapes.<br><br>Ace left Atari to work as lead artist for 3D software company Newtek Inc. Aside from creating in-house animation, he also became “main stage” demo geek at Siggraph and assorted trade shows all over the world. After as much fun as you can have partying at trade shows Ace got back into doing visual effects and animation for Fat Box Films, working on everything from commercials to… well, everything.<br><br>Currently Ace is a sr. animator at Electronic Arts working on games like James Bond: Everything or Nothing and Lord of the Rings. He performs on the weekends at local festivals and fairs and after all these years STILL loves to be a pyrate and has recreated much of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in his front yard each year for Hallowe’en.