Welcome! I am a 3D Artist working on television & film projects in the L.A. area.
Experience: Maya, Photoshop, Nuke, Shake, ZBrush, After Effects, Boujou, PFTrack, Stitcher, Illustrator and more.
Skills include: Modeling, animation, rigging & technical setup, particle effects, texturing & shaders, compositing.

12.10.09

N.A.S.A. "A Volta" has been chosen for screening at Sundance Film Festival 2010!!! Talk about a complete shock and honor! This year the Festival's Short Film Program comprises 70 short films from U.S. and international filmmakers selected from 6,092 submissions up 8% over 2009.


12.01.09

N.A.S.A. "A Volta" takes another award! This time for "Best Technical Skills" at Protoclip Int'l Festival.

The video also made Pitchfork's Top Music Videos of 2009.


11.11.09

Grand Prize Winner at Holland Animation Film Festival!!!!!

"N.A.S.A.: A Volta is awarded the HAFF Grand Prize 2009 for Commissioned Animation.
The jury stated: The jury found themselves pleasantly shocked by this music video. Good lighting, self-containedness, a dramatic story, an interesting style and nice music made this film stand out."


10.06.09

Recently finished working on a visual effects shot for Ruben Fleischer's Zombieland. #1 at the box office! The shot is of the burnt/destroyed Earth during the opening sequence of the film, which features Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Bill Murray.


06.12.09

VFX Supervisor, Lead 3D/Animation/Compositor on the music video for N.A.S.A.'s song "A Volta". I also wrote a lot of the "skits" that occur in the story. It's generating a lot of buzz and is being described as "an 8-bit narco nightmare".

In addition to inclusion in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #58, Motionographer and IdN, the video has the following screenings:


12.08.08

Finished some CG work on Metallica's latest music video "All Nightmare Long". The video, which can be viewed online here, got a nod from Motionographer.


09.07.08

Updated online reel


07.20.08

Currently freelancing at Logan.

Projects: Sony's "Resistance 2", Apple iPod/iTunes, Konami's "Metal Gear Solid 4", Kohler, VTech, Heineken, Cherry 7up, Sci-Fi Channel and more.

Our trailer for Sony's "Resistance 2", entitled "Twisted History", can be viewed here. The trailer is featured in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #49 and has also gotten a great review from Motionographer.

Our "Metal Gear Solid 4" work is featured in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #47, while the Kohler spot is featured in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #45

Also worked at Elicit FX on a couple of effects shots for Panic At The Disco's "That Green Gentleman" video.


10.28.07

Freelanced at Mac Guff, on an Acura commercial.

The spot received a nice write-up from Motionographer.


09.01.07

Freelanced at Stardust.

Projects: Sears, McDonald's/Cartoon Network, Campbell's Soup and NYSE.


07.09.07

Spent the last 6 months freelancing at Motion Theory.

Projects: Gatorade, Sony, Sears, T.G.I. Friday's and Comcast.

Gatorade "What's Inside Crosby" is featured in Stash DVD Magazine Issue #32.


12.04.06

Finished at Halon doing pre-visualization for post-production on the feature film Evan Almighty.

It is an honor that one of my personal FX projects has been featured on the new xRez site:

http://www.xrez.com/services/3d/xRez_3d.html

xRez was formed by Eric Hanson, Greg Downing and Ron Shirley, and is paving new ground in the usage of large-scale panoramic images. The site is very engaging and full of stunning work!

Eric (VFX artist on "The Fifth Element", "Cast Away", "The Day After Tomorrow") also showed my project at a Digital Sets and Environments seminar he lectured at in Oslo, Norway. What a guy!!


03.24.06

Just wrapped up a VFX shot for a music DVD by legendary thrash metal band Vio-lence, soon to be released by Megaforce Records Worldwide.

Also worked on an animated short showcased at the 4th Annual VES Awards show this year. The project was a tribute to Pixar's John Lasseter, and was shown alongside other shorts done by Pixar, ILM, and Sony Imageworks. Not only was it an honor to work on the project, but word has it Mr. Lasseter requested a copy!

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