By Justin Shenkarow Justin Craig, how do you get into creating cartoons? Craig I wanted to be an animator since I was in college. I finished up college in Olympia and decided to do animation. The whole goal for someone getting into animation is to have your own show. It was always in the back of my mind. I was working as a clay animator in Portland, and even then I was making my own cartoon shorts. I came down to L.A to do the Penny cartoons for “Pee Wee’s Playhouse.” They were 3D claymation, but they were flat on glass. The first “Hey Arnold” shorts were clay on glass. I made one for “Sesame Street” and two for an independent short festival. I said, “I’ll come up with a character and then build a cartoon show around it.” Harold and Helga are also in the original characters. Harold