Education
Vernon, a native of Lubbock, Texas, studied at CalArts and worked as a storyboard artist on Cool World, 2 Stupid Dogs, Rocko"s Modern Life, Nightmare Ned, and Morto the Magician.
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Vernon, a native of Lubbock, Texas, studied at CalArts and worked as a storyboard artist on Cool World, 2 Stupid Dogs, Rocko"s Modern Life, Nightmare Ned, and Morto the Magician.
In 1996, he joined DreamWorks, where he worked as a storyboard artist on Antz. After Antz proved a success as the first animated feature film to be produced by DreamWorks Animation, Vernon signed on as a writer for Shrek, where he was responsible for the Gingerbread Manitoba, and eventually voiced that character. He also appeared in Shrek 4-Doctorate and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.
In 2004, he made his feature film directorial debut with the Academy Award-nominated Shrek 2.
He voiced Mason the chimpanzee for the DreamWorks Animation films Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Madagascar 3: Europe"s Most Wanted and its television series. He also provided the voice for Insectosaurus and directed the 3D animated film, Monsters versus