A Brief BiographySo I won't have to practice my typing too much..
I was born in 1964 in California and moved to Ohio at three. At 18 I set off for California and lived in the LA area for many years. I now live in Hawaii and like to play on my tractor. I went to Pitzer College in Claremont, Ca, for two years and then went to Art Center College of Design to study product design. Well, I was better at drawing cars, and that lead to 6 months at Ford in Detroit designing them. My design sense was a little weird to be of any value to anybody in Detroit, so I returned to Art Center to study illustration. There I was as conservative as I was off-the-wall in Industrial Design. I just wanted the academic skills of drawing and painting, no soapbox, please. I finally did graduate in 1990.
I was doing a lot of concept painting for architects and theme parks and that slowly lead to contacts within the film biz. I was introduced to the computer first at Ford in 87 in the form of a "Dubner PaintBox." I wonder where that ponderous bulk is today? It did pretty much what photoshop does. I was working for a short time at a big effects house and was introduced to Photoshop by one of it's creators, John Knoll. I went all digital for commercial work in 1994.