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Apollo 13, Digital Artist
Titanic, Digital Artist
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Creature Developer
Magnolia, Frog Construction
Space Cowboys, Creature Developer
Mssion to Mars, Animator
Deep Blue Sea, Creature Developer
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, Lead Creature Developer
Shark Tale, Character TD
Over the Hedge, Lead Character TD
King Kong, Creature TD
Beowulf, Character TD
Watchmen, Character TD
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Character TD

In February of 1995, I moved from my hometown of St.Louis, Missouri to Los Angeles, California to work for a company called Digital Domain. I had been offered a 2 month gig as a Digital Artist to work on the film, Apollo 13. Life would never be the same. To this day, its the project I am most proud to have been a part of.

Since those early days in 1995 I have worked at many of the world's top Visual Effects and Feature Animation Studios, including Digital Domain, Industrial Light + Magic, Dreamworks, Weta Digital, and my current spot at Sony Imageworks.

My specialty lies in the setup of digital characters and creatures in a variety of styles, from ultra realistic to cartoony. Most in the business refer to this process as "rigging". It includes setting up controls for animators, skeletons, body deformations like muscles and jiggling, clothing & costumes, vehicles, and props used by digital characters.