April 26, 2018

“Honor” a Tribute to the Greatest Generation

Short Reel of Projects & Animations

RoboKATs pre-voiceover Trailer

February 23, 2018 Update

I love the technology that has brought film-making and CG art and animation to the casual user’s desktop. Some of the things you can do on $1,000 software would have cost 100 times more just a decade ago. Increases in processor speeds have brought the possibility of desktop rendering to many artists. I have a very puny 4-unit render farm (at least they are all multi-core) and some animations take a very long time. A recent 8-second pass I made a few days ago took 64 hours to render in HD and not at the highest possible settings. As the film side of my career grows into the 4K range, I cringe to think of the rendering capability I need to keep up with that.

For now here are some HD clips of demo reels, cuttings from the editing floor and mad experiments. I am working on two CG shorts, “RoboKATS in Space,: a children’s series and “Homeward” another scifi short about a woman’s journey home (to Earth). My render farm is only a couple computers – utilized mostly at night before I go to bed. The bottom line in outputting good CG is the render muscle applied to it and in that regard I am the proverbial 90 pound weakling.

I will be posting some more recent renders and proof of concept videos soon.

If you have the bandwidth, HD playback is recommended. Thanks for watching!

January 2013 Demo Reel

Not as fancy pants as the output recently, here’s what my CG work looked like five  years ago