Faux Paw the Internet Cat

Chad Erekson

On Day Two of our experience at Siggraph, a young man walked up to the book signing table before we had even sat down with his book in hand. We were still settling in and did not get a chance to write his name down after we snapped his pic. Well, one of our contributors - Mike Warner - knows who this guy is! Its Chad Erekson, and he went to BYU with Mike studying in the animation program there.

Turns out Chad directed, wrote and storyboarded a short film in school called Faux Paw which won the student Emmy in 2005. The students wrote up the treatment and boarded it in class based on a book the the Govenor of Utah's wife wrote about Internet Safety for kids. The film is now going around the country right now teaching kids internet safety. Congrats Chad!!!