Game Development

current position: Sr. Lighting Artist - Crystal Dynamics

"working on the future of Tomb Raider" Crystal Dynamics

"Marvel's Avengers" (Sr. Lighting) Crystal Dynamics

"Grand Theft Auto 5" (Sr. Enviro/Lighting) Rockstar

"MaxPayne 3"(studio art dir./Env.& lighting) - Rockstar

"RedDead Redemption 2"(Enviro/lighting) - Rockstar

"RedDead Redemption" (Sr. Environment art)  - Rockstar

"Bully Scholarship Ed."(art dir./Env art/tech) - Rockstar

"Turok" (lead Environment & art) - Maddoc Studios

"Tomb Raider Legend"(LeadEnviro) - Crystal Dynamics

"The Matrix: Path of Neo"(Sr. Enviro art) - Shiny Ent.

"Enter The Matrix" (Environment art)- Shiny Ent.

"Need for speed Underground" (Enviro art) - EA Games

"Test Drive Offroad: Wide Open" (Enviro art) - EA games

"Smugglers Run" (Environment art) - Angel Studios

"Road Rash 64" (Enviro art) - PCPL / THQ

"JetMoto 3" (Art Dir.,design & Enviro) - PCPL / THQ 

"Gauntlet Legends Arcade" (Enviro art) - Atari Games

"RollerForceVR" (Indie - Creator/AD) - Indie/Oculus

"iOmoonVR" (Indie - Creator/AD) - Indie/Oculus

Game Development Studios

Crystal Dynamics (current and awesome)

Rockstar Games

Headtrip Games

MadDoc Studios

Shiny Entertainment

Electronic Arts / EA Games

Angel Studios

THQ / locomotive games

Pacific Coast Power & Light

Atari Games (original CoinOp -  Milpitas CA)

B.F.A. Film & Animation 1996 - The University Of The Arts, Philadelphia PA

Game Developer since 1998 - started at the original Atari Games, Milpitas CA.  Hired based on early web VRML creations.

Positions Held: 3D Artist, Creative Director, Environment Artist, Lead Artist, Project Art Director, Studio Art Director, Sr. Lighting Artist, Senior Artist, CEO Indy Studio, Outsourcing manager, Training

Realtime Skills: Modelling, Texturing, Advanced Lighting, world creation, VFX and Dynamics, Animation, Scripting, Audio, Gameplay controls, Virtual Reality Creation, Holography, 3D audio, VR Modelling, Unreal5

Stereoscopic skills: Stereo 3D creation, 2-D conversion using tools and deep AI, 3D cameras and rigs, Lightfield 3D, Lenticular image and physical card creation, Holographic, Virtual Reality, Spherical 360 SBS 

Fine Art Skills: cartoons, illustration, hand animation, Sculpture, life drawing, molding & casting, metal casting, electroplating, 3D printing (Resin/FDM), Darkroom photography

Random info: 11yr. old background extra in Ghostbusters 2 and shook Harold Ramis's hand! I have an irrational love for anything stereoscopic 3-D and Dragon's Lair.

Computer Experience

- IBM terminal (1981) In 3rd grade I was able to just play on a terminal, I fell in love with green characters on a black screen. I spent the time making ascii mountains by stacking layers of letters, I believe this moment sparked my love for computers.

- Atari 400/600XL/800XL (1982) I convinced my parents to get me an Atari400, oh those McDonalds keys! Somehow we got an Atari600, and eventually an Atari800XL. This is my favorite computer ever, I still check it out in emulation. I taught myself basic programming at 9yrs. old by copying pages of lines of code from "Compute!" magazine. I also used an Atari artist drawing tablet to draw pixel art and animations in EA's Animation app. I even had an Okimate color printer that took hours to print a color print. 

- Apple II (1985) I was kicked out of computer class for making the screens and printers print endless text using basic, ended up in piano class.

- Apple Macintosh classic (1990) High School Photoshop 1

- Amiga (early 90s) Renders and animation using Imagine

- VideoToaster video editing (early 90s) Editing for film class

- MOOG synthesizer (early 90s) 808 Synth effects and audio for film.

- Silicon Graphics SGI (mid 90s) Trained in Alias Wavefront but never got enough time on it, what a beast!

- Apple PowerMac (late 90s) I did lots of early 3D work using Strata StudioPro & Media100 video editing, working at editing houses and community art centers.

- PC's (2000s) Various PC software and tech: 3DMax, Maya, Zbrush, Unity, Blender, Resolve, Unreal4, Unreal5, Cakewalk, AE...

- VR (2015-present) Oculus Rift indie Dev, helped test and dev on all kits from CV1 to Final Rift. Also Dev'd on Oculus GearVR, Google Cardboard, HTC Vive 

- Raspberry Pi: Emulation 

- Looking Glass Holography: Light field stereoscopic 3D, holographic Realtime art and video production using Unity and RGBD imagery.

- 3D lenticular production: Creation of custom lenticular art prints using art, AI, depth and lenticular lenses. 

AI Art:

Stable DiffusionXL, Stable Video Diffusion, Deforum, Stable Cascade, Runway ML, AnimateDiff w/ prompt travel, DiscoDiffusion, Jax, Deepdream, VQGAN+CLIP, Pytti, BoostingMonocularDepth, RIFE/FILM, ebsynth, DallE2, image2mesh/3D