Kryptonians

Updated for Computer Animation I’ve spent a lot of my life studying animation informally, and then I got myself a position at a major motion picture studio (Rhythm & Hues) and for the past six years I’ve been immersed in the art, technology and culture of feature animation.  I’ve helped write the animation training curriculae [...]

A good friend of mine has a husband who is a master chef, and Italian.  He once told me that the Italians have a saying: “Between words and deeds lies an ocean.” When people judge you, they judge you by your actions.  It’s not enough to sit on the sidelines and watch your life go [...]

Here’s the money shot: The full sized version of this is nine megapixels across, and about one and a half megapixels high. It was shot from the porch of the western gate, looking out over the garden and reflecting pool, using a 5.1 megapixel Sony Cybershot. I took about 32 separate images and tiled them [...]

Hi, everybody – I finally decided to toss my entire old web site in the trash and start over with a WordPress blog like every other busy creative professional I know. I finally picked up on the reason everybody uses WordPress – who the heck has the time to update HTML pages?? I sure don’t. [...]

This year my son absolutely had to be Optimus Prime for Halloween, so since I used to make all this crazy stuff when I was doing practical FX, I decided we’d do it! My web site was so hopeless for updating it that I never posted the picture till now, but here it is: I [...]

After three months of chasing wild geese, I think I’ve finally stabilized the server. I’ve finished the life drawing course, and my skills have taken another quantum leap – so much so that I’m considering pulling my demo reel and about half of the stuff on my gallery pages as being hopelessly nonrepresentative of my [...]

I start another life drawing class in about a week, and I’m brushing up on my Maya chops. Soon I’ll be able to run with the big dogs. In the meantime, check out the code page – I’ve finally fixed the problem with the nGene source code that prevented it from compiling cleanly on Linux [...]

There are new images in the gallery; I’ve recently finished my first life drawing class here at the studio, so I thought I’d put up a few of the better images. I love to draw! I didn’t realize just how much until I got the opportunity to study under Glen Vilppu. What a remarkable teacher!

I’ve recently finished a short contract doing preproduction work on SciFi Channel’s new “Battlestar Galactica” mini-series, and now I’m working on some web development with PHP and MySQL, some Lightwave animation for a car commercial and an OpenGL game demo. Man, when it rains it pours.

This month I’ve won Artist of the Month at 3D Gladiators for some 2D work I did. Also, I’ve just been hired to do preproduction work on Battlestar Galactica by a small company in Pasadena called Cinema Pacific. It’s a lot of fun, and very challenging and demanding. I’m having a great time so far. [...]