Starting in 1977, he drew storyboards for Hanna-Barbera's animated TV shows, including "Super Friends" and "The Godzilla Power Hour", where he worked with comics and animation veteran Doug Wildey. For the rest of the decade, he continued to work in animation and film, joining the art studio of illustrators William Stout and Richard Hescox in Los Angeles, working on projects such as storyboards for George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and pop singer Michael Jackson's video "Thriller".