Howard Fine

Howard Fine was born and raised in Los Angeles. He studied writing and literature at UCLA in the late 1980s. Spent his early professional life drifting from one inconsequential job to another while trying to support his writing habit. Enjoyed minor professional success publishing short stories and poetry. Fine was also active in the underground world of billboard manipulation and was featured in the acclaimed Dutch documentary series, "The Spirit of America", a five part series produced by the Dutch television network VPRO and directed by Bram van Splunteren.

The series profiled the contemporary American cultural landscape, focusing on themes peculiar to America in the early 1990s. In addition to being featured in the episode dealing with tabloid-ism in popular culture, Fine was the L. A. producer for two of the episodes.

Fine's interest in graphic arts lead to working as an animator on some groundbreaking music videos and television commercials in the early 1990s. This experience prompted him to focus specifically on developing multimedia content for CD-Roms and later, the fledgling world wide web.

Ultimately, these opportunities afforded Fine a position directing a 30 second animated interstitial, for Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997), called "Boss of the World".

Also during this time, he began designing on-screen computer playback graphics and animation for many shows, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Angel (1999) and Chicago Hope (1994).