For the last 17 years, I've been involved with the look development and creative departments in VFX and Animation studios.  I love the creation process and thrive off team collaboration.  I've always been inspired by visual details, so it is only natural that I have established myself in Look Dev/Surfacing Departments.   From assets and locations to world building, I've evolved in my career with the use of Unreal Engine.  Concept to creation is the name of the game and Unreal has propelled me to contribute to almost all spectrums of world building and previs production.  From assembly, blueprints, to look development, I've found my new passion in the next generation real-time creative pipeline.                                                                                                                                

Spire Animation

Look Development Designer

July 2021 - Present

Developing worlds and concepts for "Trouble" through ideations in Unreal Engine and Substance Suites with a previs team

Dreamworks Animation

Look Development Supervisor

Environment Surfacing Lead

Department Chair

PipeX Surfacing Lead

May 2010 – July 2021

Croods 2, How to Train Your Dragon 3, Trolls Holiday Special, Larrikins, Boss Baby, Kung Fu Panda 3, Penguins, Home, The Croods, & Puss in Boots



Asylum Visual Effects

Texture Artist

​​Jan 2008 - June 2008  &  Oct 2009 - May 2010 ​

Benjamin Button, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Verizon Droid Commercial, &​

Prince of Persia



Rareform Productions

​Texture and Lighting Artist

July 2009 - Sept 2009 

Digital artist for short film, "Wallenda



Rhythm and Hues

Texture TD

July 2008 - May 2009

Land of the Lost, Night at the Museum 2, & Cirque Du Freak



Gentle Giant Studios

Nex Gen Character Development

July 2007 - Jan 2008

Nex Gen release--Golden Axe: Beast Rider

-Character and creature workflow: consists of building game mesh on ZBrush sculpt and detailing with in game texture maps. (color, spec, normal, amb occ).
-Resurfacing scans for feature films and toy products

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Look FX

Matte Painter & Roto Artist

March 2006 - Dec 2006

Rotoscoped on Pirates of the Carribean 2, Rocky Balboa, and Nightmare before Christmas. Provided matte painting for NASA simulation ride.

Sony Imageworks

Dustbuster

Sept 2005 - Dec 2005

Dustbuster on Ghost Rider and invested time in their in house training with Maya and animation.