While at college, Augenblick created two animated short films entitled "The Midnight Carnival" (screened at Slamdance Festival 2000) and "The Wire".

[1] He began his professional career working at MTV Animation on such television shows as Daria, Cartoon Sushi and Downtown.

In 2006, Augenblick wrote and directed Golden Age, a faux-documentary which examined the scandalous private lives of iconic cartoon characters from the past.

The ten episodes series was originally created for Comedy Central's broadband channel Motherload and was later released as a 22-minute short film.

From 2010 to 2012, Augenblick served as the supervising producer and animation director for Comedy Central's horror-comedy series Ugly Americans.