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Zac Moncrief
Born	1971
Alma mater	California Institute of the Arts
Occupation(s)	Director, writer, storyboard artist, teacher
Known for	Family Guy, Phineas and Ferb
Spouse	Charlene Moncrief
Website	http://zacmoncrief.blogspot.com/

Zac Moncrief is an American animation director, writer, and storyboard artist who has, throughout the years, worked on several different animated productions. Born and raised in Montvale, New Jersey, Moncrief left his native town to attend the California Institute of the Arts. While attending the university, he became an intern on the animated film The Pagemaster, and after graduating, he worked on the film Cats Don't Dance. He pitched a television pilot to Cartoon Network, which eventually led to him working on the network's series Johnny Bravo.

After working on Johnny Bravo, Moncrief founded his own company that produced animated for CD-ROMs, and began working on theme park attractions for Walt Disney World. He eventually returned to television and began working on projects such as Kitty the Hapless Cat, The Fairly OddParents, and the animated short subject Max and His Special Problem. He began working for The Walt Disney Company, providing storyboard art for Teacher's Pet, and worked on other Disney cartoons, before moving on to direct episodes of Fox Network's Family Guy. He left the show to direct and write for Phineas and Ferb, where he has been nominated for an Emmy Award.

Early life

Zac Moncrief was born in 1971 of Jack and Peggy Moncrief and grew up in the city of Montvale, New Jersey. Moncrief began showing interest in art at age 8. He would trace Peanuts characters and lie to his friends and teachers that he drew them forehand. One day, they confronted him and asked him to show him how he drew the characters so perfectly. He feared he would be outed as a fraud, but when he began drawing them he learned that he had traced them so many times he had learned to actually draw them himself. From then on, Moncrief was drawing constantly.

Education

Moncrief attended the California Institute of the Arts.

Moncrief gained secondary education from Pascack Hills High School. Drawing served as a large part of his lifestyle while attending Pascack Hills. His friends would approach him and hand over their textbooks which were draped with brown paper, asking him to draw on them. Traditionally, he would draw pictures of Looney Tunes characters, such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Moncrief enjoyed his time as a teenage celebrity and considered himself to be "kind of an attention whore."

Moncrief graduated from Pascack Hills High School in 1989. While waiting to get his driver's license at a Department of Motor Vehicles building in Lodi, New Jersey, following graduation, Moncrief was drawing a picture when a man walked up to him and opined that he should attend the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), an arts college funded by The Walt Disney Company. Moncrief had never heard of the college before, nor had he ever considered going into animation professionally, but now began considering the possibility of attending the college and making a living out of drawing. His father, who was the principal of Pascack Hills at the time, originally tried to motivate his son towards other colleges other than CalArts, but he eventually realized it was what his son truly wanted and accepted it.

In 1989, soon after, Moncrief left Montvale and began attending CalArts.