Sharon LaBorde first arrived on the scene in 1977, a few months after the original "Star Wars" was released. Raised on a steady diet of animated features and weekday cartoons, she also gobbled up every factoid she could about dinosaurs, weather and volcanoes, to the point where an elementary teacher once wrote home that Sharon was 'obsessed with science'. She even thought about going into space, until the day her class watched news reports about the space shuttle Challenger.

At fifteen, Sharon learned screenwriting during a summer camp for gifted students and soon afterward decided to pursue animation for a career. What seemed at first to be a setback eventually turned into an advantage; unable to ship out to Hollywood, Sharon trained at one of the few art schools still teaching life drawing and other traditional skills in her home state of Louisiana. Those skills, honed by nearly three decades of experience, shine through in every hand-drawn frame of her animation.

Along the way, Sharon forged lasting friendships that have helped propel her forward. First she met her partner, Daryn Broussard, during college; his vocal talents can be heard in Sharon's animation projects. In 2004, she and Daryn met veteran animation voice director Wally Burr, and the three remained friends until Wally's passing in 2017. In turn, Sharon's student animation project, HALFASS KINGDOM: COMMUTE, completed in 2016, was Wally Burr's last voice direction credit.

Finally attaining that coveted animation degree, now Sharon stokes her fire with many irons: writing science-fiction novels and nonfiction about ancient mythology, developing concepts and animated shorts, and producing YouTube videos that often combine bad book reviews with Roger Corman-esque special effects. She believes that humor makes an effective learning tool. Which is a good thing, because her fellow comedians in the local stand-up scene sometimes don't get her jokes until they catch random documentaries, collapse with laughter and then call Daryn breathlessly to tell him they finally 'got Sharon's joke'. They'd best be careful - if Sharon has to draw you a picture, she will.