[2] Avalos studied classical violin from childhood, but by early high school, he realized his true love was film.
[5] Avalos has lectured in Europe, the United States, South America, Japan, and Canada about digital filmmaking, and written articles about it for numerous publications.
Other work includes animation for Lost in La Mancha (2002), a documentary directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe.
In 2007, Avalos was instrumental in investigating and breaking the story about "foreign levies" not being disbursed by the DGA and WGA to filmmakers for FADE IN MAGAZINE.
[12] In 2018, Avalos was invited to join Array inc. as Director At Large in a series of experiments demonstrating and developing emergent A.I.
[13] In 2019, Avalos began development[14] on ATM BOY, a story discovered by Australian Crime Journalist Adam Shand.