Chris Williams

Part of the package that Roger likes to provide for his Customers are design services - either to improve or to create new artwork.  Now Roger has a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't but to be selling and producing product doesn't give him the time to concentrate on artwork for our Customers.  The result is that Roger is always on the outlook for people who can really design.

We say "really design" as this is an area of human endeavor where "many are called and few are chosen".  Put an ad in the paper saying you are looking for a designer and you get a line up at your door that stretches around the block of people who are great at drawing 3 items - but no imagination beyond that. 

Roger's kids were telling him about a friend of theirs who was a great designer and that Roger should hire the kid.  It's understandable that Roger was skeptical.  The same song he had heard hundreds of times before.  But the kids kept on bugging him.  Roger finally "caved" - if for no other reason than to stop the nagging.

Roger meets this tall "jock" type kid. He's thinking; "What could he draw...."   He says to the kid; "Draw a moose".  ZIP - zip - zip. There it is. And very well done.  Rogers thinking that's 1 of the 3.  "Draw a bumblebee"  Zip - zip -zip and there is number 2 of 3.  But it's really good.  "Draw a friendly alien monster"  Zip - zip - zip.  Number 3 is fantastic.  It doesn't matter what Roger asks for the kid knocks it off in 3 - 5 minutes - any theme, any style, any genre.  Roger asked him; "How many animals can you draw?"  The kid says; "How many are there.... "   Turns out the kid had a fantastic memory for pictures, shapes and designs.

Roger, who is a bright little bunny (well, not so little) in his own right, hires the kid.

Fifteen years later Chris Williams wins an Oscar for "Big Hero 6"