Ron Fugelseth

Ron Fugelseth is a creative director based in Santa Cruz, CA and has been working professionally in the digital media industry since 1999. He began as a web designer and eventually moved to storyboard and animation. Fugelseth has worked with such companies as Disney, Hewlett Packard and National Geographic. Apart from his business and work endeavors, the purpose of Fugelseth’s short film A Toy Train in Space is purely personal. This video is a labor of love that he created with his four-year-old son as a way of documenting his son's imaginative relationship with his train named Stanley. The result was an out-of-this-world father and son adventure — they sent Stanley into the stratosphere by way of a weather balloon. The success of the video prompted an initial whirlwind of press and TV show appearances and has since opened a number of doors for new ventures.