The filmmaking career of Charles Unger began at age 12, when he wrote a spec script for the TV Anime series, Battle of the Planets. Six years later, by the time he graduated as a Fine Art major from New York City's prestigious La Guardia High School of Music and Art, Charlie had completed several stop-motion animation films. Charlie graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in the early nineties, and was accepted into the Motion Picture Editor's Guild shortly afterwards. Fo