Tommy Ardolino

President and Founder of the multi-faceted Art, Film Prop, and Frame Company, Frame of Mind Pictures, since 1987, Tommy is an artist who grew up in the foresty suburbs of New Haven, Connecticut. With early influences like The Beatles and Peter Max fueling his imagination, Tommy's creative output rapidly became sophisticated, as he began playing piano and producing animated films at the tender age of 9. After experimenting with film special effects, pixilation, and stop motion animation throughout high school, Tommy was accepted to the University of Southern California, as the only freshman in the Film Animation program at the School of Cinema. Tommy produced his first film at USC, a 3-minute 16mm animated film, Clownster (1979), by painting over 1500 cels, and was invited to screen his work at Bill Melendez studios, where they produced all of the Peanuts cartoons. After graduating from USC with several awards including the prestigious Glen Lukens Award for Outstanding Studio Artist, an