Career
He founded the firm in 1987. In 1999, for a profile in Playback magazine Davidson, said he had been fascinated by the technical details of how animation worked since he was a child watching Saturday morning cartoons, like Magilla Gorilla. Initially Davidson was planning to study animation at Sheridan College, but switched to the University of Waterloo"s Architecture program—a field of study where he thought he could combine both his technical and artistic sides.
However, after several years he added Computer Science, and graduated with a double major in both Architecture and Computer Science, in 1978.