“The idea behind the Operator, in the anime movie Spoonman, is one of thought and segways; which makes him a very cool concept to wrap your head around, I used that to my advantage in the form of inspiration and motivation when assigned the task by Spoonman’s producer William Vaughan while being in the middle of the production at the DAVE school”
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