020214-090441.jpg :: Olivia Hussey :: I was commissioned to do a painting for the official Olivia Hussey web site, and this was the painting.  Everything on the left-most panel of the oriental room divider she's sitting in front of is hand painted to match the rest of the photograph I was given as source material.  Another element has her fading away in a rather ghostly manner from the chair in which she sits, and on that I created a new background that was invented from whole cloth.  Again, all hand painted. :: 
theFairy.jpg :: The Fairy :: About two days' work, acrylic on canvas. ::
theFairyDetail.jpg :: The Fairy (Detail) :: The Fairy in closeup.  Acrylic on an 11x14 canvas.  This image shows the detail on the woman in red. ::
3cylons.jpg :: Cylon Raiders :: I was doing some previsualization for the new "Battlestar Galactica" mini-series for Sci-Fi channel, and they had me build some ships.  Here are three cylon raiders, of a design that was later discarded.  Bit of history, folks. ::
cylonprobe.jpg :: Cylon Probe :: I'm not sure who designed this thing, but I built it during my stint at Cinema Pacific doing previsualization work for the new Sci-Fi Channel "Battlestar Galactica" mini-series.  It was originally supposed to be the new Cylon Raider, but Gary Hutzel, the director of FX for the show, had other plans for it. ::elaine_design.jpg :: The Elaine Show :: Promotional artwork for a title sequence for a cable TV show that may still get made.  Elaine Wood is a wonderful person with great energy and drive, and she deserves to get her eclectic variety talk show off the ground.  Are you listening, Oxygen? This was done in a few hours using Procreate's "Painter 8". ::
christyfaerie640.jpg :: Christy as a Faerie :: My niece at age three, photoretouched in the Gimp.  I decided to take the photo restoration one step further.  Check out the ears. ::
waif.jpg :: The Waif :: Another bit of art done while my wife was chattering away about politics.  I couldn't animate while she was doing that, so I drew this instead. Done in the Gimp, in about fifteen minutes. Actual size. ::
isSheReallyAWitch.jpg :: Is She Really A Witch? :: She might be.  Painted while watching Al Gore's recent speech about the constitutional crisis created by the Bush administration.<br><br>I'm not usually political, but there you are.<br><br>This painting was done in the Gimp on Linux at actual size, and took about fifteen minutes. ::
lifedrawing_femaletorso.jpg :: Female Torso :: From my life drawing class with Glen Vilppu.  This took about twenty minutes. ::
lifedrawing_recliningfemale.jpg :: Reclining Female :: From my life drawing class with <a href="http://www.vilppustudio.com">Glen Vilppu</a>.  This took about twenty five minutes - one of my favorites, since it captures the energy of the model (something I always have trouble with). ::
lifedrawing_seatedfemale.jpg :: Seated Female :: From my life drawing class with <a href="http://www.vilppustudio.com">Glen Vilppu</a>.  This one took about fifteen minutes or so.
lifedrawing_stridingmale.jpg :: Striding Male :: From my life drawing class with <a href="http://www.vilppustudio.com">Glen Vilppu</a>.  This one took about ten minutes.  I was going for art deco in my line, and I think I see a little of that in this, so it kind of worked.
supesPainting.jpg :: Jim Fox-Davis as Superman :: Painted for my friend Jim Fox-Davis, for his 51st birthday.  He's a big fan of Alex Ross, so I did my best to imitate his style.  I think I can do better - it's been about seventeen years since I've painted <i>anything</i> with real paints.  Acrylic on canvas.<br><br>  By the way, I'm not a big fan of acrylic.  Compared to oils, it's like painting in mud.  But you can get things done quickly in acrylics, and I'll learn the technique eventually.
findingnimoy.jpg :: Finding Nimoy :: Two great tastes that taste great together!  <br> Or not..<br> Done in the Gimp on Linux ::
rollerbot2_labeled.jpg :: Rollerbot Closeup :: Here's a good close look.  I designed him in Painter and built him entirely in Lightwave.  Yeah, I know Maya rocks.  But I like Lightwave best. ::
l_Paddy_hands_up_jpg.jpg :: Paddy Makes A Point :: Paddy the Funpad in his three-dimensional incarnation, and one of my earliest efforts at character animation.  Paddy still appears in my animation reel, though once I've done a bit more serious animation, I'll probably be pulling him out. :: 
m_meanieburger_jpg.jpg :: Killer Burger :: Attitude on a sesame bun.  This character was created as an enemy character for a Flash-based arcade game for the Funpad from Entertainment Systems Technology LLC.  Texturing him was a lot of fun - I got to buy hamburger fixings and throw them on the scanner!  I'm glad I thought to put plastic wrap on the platten first.  From design to finished animation, this character took only about twenty hours. :: 
n_meanieshake_jpg.CROPtop.jpg :: Monster Milk Shake :: This character was created in about twenty hours, start to finish, including the animation.  The frosty chocolate shake texture was entirely procedural.  In the Flash-animated arcade game in which he appeared, he grabbed the cherry off the top of his head and threw it like a hand grenade. :: 
sydney_rendered_in_poser.CROPtop.jpg :: Sydney the Lab Rat :: This is how Sydney looked to the client when they got her (yes, Sydney's a girl rat).  They wanted it done in Poser, and this is about as good as Poser was able to do with it.  They wanted fur, but of course with Poser that was out of the question.  Sydney was modeled in subdivision surfaces and frozen into polygons for export to Poser. :: 
oops_0065.JPG :: Sydney Has A Problem :: Whatever Sydney the Lab Rat has been mixing in that beaker has suddenly become unstable.  Sydney was created in Lightwave for the National Institutes of Health, as a talking spokesperson for their internal use.  I think there must be a real rat named Sydney, because I was informed that the character was sort of an inside joke.  By the way, if you think Sydney looks a tad like Stuart Little, you're right.  That was what the client wanted to see, so naturally I obliged. :: 
p_starship_interior_3_jpg.jpg :: Starship Observation Deck :: Done in Lightwave in about a day, this observation deck was to be part of a game based on the Coca Cola franchise, and was to be played on the FunPad.  I coded up a demo of the game in C++ and DirectX so the people at Entertainment Systems Technology could play it and see how it might work when finished, but they decided that their own game idea was fatally flawed.  The game was never produced. :: 
pilot.jpg :: Pilot :: Like so much of the work presented here, this isn't really CG, but I thought I'd show it to you anyway.  20x24, Acrylic on posterboard.  Would you believe I actually won an award with this piece?  I got a lovely T-Shirt from 3DGladiators.com. :: 
roboffice_jpg.jpg :: Logobot Reviews A Design :: This scene was done entirely in 3D Studio R4.  The posters on the wall were also done in 3D Studio R4, rendered, and used as decoration for this scene.  Since 3D Studio couldn't do secondary reflections, I had to stick a small spotlight under the table and aim it back up at Logobot's face.  This is pretty ancient, going back six or seven years, I guess. :: 
robpostr_jpg.CROPtop.jpg :: Robots of Dawn :: Sort of a spoof movie poster with Logobot as the star of the film.  It was intended to help me get work as an artist.  Instead, it helped me get work as a game programmer at the Dreamers Guild, where they made me a Level III programmer, then promoted me to Technical Director almost immediately and put me in charge of all the level designers at the company (about a dozen or so).  I got a lot of mileage out of this one image, though my running 3D demo application probably helped too. :: 
o_Oddroom_logobots_jpg.jpg :: Logobots At The Art Gallery :: Originally created in 3D Studio Release 4, these 'bots were somewhat rebuilt in Lightwave and rendered in this simple room.  Most of the surfaces are procedural, except for the painting on the wall which I knocked out in about two minutes in Photoshop. :: 
ufo_landing.jpg :: UFO Landing :: Another test render from the animation I did for my animation reel.  The landing gear are all controlled by expressions, driven by the saucer's proximity to the ground.  This image makes a really nice wallpaper, so feel free to right-click on it and use the "Set As Wallpaper" option. :: 
cinenetlogo.jpg :: Cinema Network Corporate Logo :: Everybody's got at least one of these buried in their portfolio.  Usually way at the back. :: 
basketballGirl :: Women's Basketball Champion :: Stanford had just won, and this girl's picture was in the paper.  About half an hour, pencil.
crayon01.jpg :: Crayon Sketch #1 :: I was watching TV and doing some speed sketching with some of my son's crayons on typing paper.  This is one of the best three of the session of eight.  About five minutes.
crayon02.jpg :: Crayon Sketch #2 :: Another speed sketch with crayon. This one took about a minute.  Kind of reminds me of Judy Garland.
portraitOfAMan.jpg :: Portrait of a Man :: From life, sort of - done the next day after a life drawing class, from memory.
recliningMan640x480.jpg :: Reclining Man :: From life, a five minute pose. Pencil. ::
susan-fox-davis-portrait.jpg :: Susan Fox-Davis :: I knew <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~selene/kitchen/" target="_top">Susan Fox-Davis</a> years before she added the Davis to her name.<br>This is how I remember her. I'll let the image speak for itself.::