My day to day work was animating, illustrating and photography. I also taughts students and conducted workshops. I illustrated a third children’s book for “Connecting Tanzania” about Hamisi, a little lizard learning and growing up in Lake Tanganyika.

Cover of Hamisi The Complaining Lizard

Lizard Dance

Woodcut

Beautiful Silky is a still for an film animation sequence

The Lion and The Hare

The Smart Hare

Children’s Book illustration

My little Brian!

I made art since the 1960s. As a teen, I painted for friends and business office spaces by doing murals on their walls. In college I studied fine art including filmmaking, photography, printmaking and sculpture. For most of my life, I worked as a professional animator, illustrator and photographer for myself and other filmmakers, publishers and authors, educators, physicians, manufacturers and publicists.

Medical Illustration

DVD Box Cover Design

Freedom & Unity TV Logo

Symposium Brochure

IT newsletter, layout and logo design

The Vermont Movie logo

Scientific Library Slim Jim Design

Statewide Campaign Poster (1 of 5) Promoting Health

Hard Rock MP3 Package Design

POP MP3 Package Display

MP3 Package Design

ATT Brochure

Meadowsong Morgans logo

Asthma Poster

Smart Bulbs Sales Brochure for Philips

Logo Design

Public Health Practices Brochure

2014 HISTORY EXPO POSTER for The Vermont Movie

When Will it Be Yesterday?

WingspreadTV

I began studying and using 3D and other animation software in the 1990s. Flash was brought on the scene via 2 young developers and purchased by Macromedia. Maya was called Softimage 3D and was available to me on my job. I immediately was drawn to the amazing capabilities of these programs. At that time, I worked as the director of a biomedical media and communications department in New Jersey. It was associated with two hospitals: Robert Wood Johnson and University Hospital, Newark. Staff was introduced to digital 3D modelling for medical image creation.

I have been fascinated with three dimensional artwork since I was a child. Finally, as a young adult an entire new horizon opened up for me to explore. Within a few years, I was training in Maya software and for the first time, I began using a PC over my preferred Mac. Since then, I have been creating work for use in films, trailers, medical media, and promotional media. I animated the WingspreadTV logo in Maya 3D and skinned it with some photos I shot of the butterfly. (My link to “work” is in “Simple Viewer,” which requires a Flash plug-in).

Tales of Penny & Black, Louise Michaels, Alexa Stolarz

Tall Ships animation for the Champlain / Abenaki story in Part 1: A Very New Idea / The Vermont Movie.

Hydro Evaporation Cycle

This piece became a part of Freedom & Unity: The Vermont Movie. The movie is the work of over 40 Vermont filmmakers. Click to the right for more videos: a trailer, some promo shorts for a Youth Film Competition, and a variety of animations or motion graphics.

Raku Pocket Series #1

City Pot I

Mission Pot

Raku Purple Box

Prometheus and S.A.M.

Oil Pot

Leda and the Swan

Homage to Mayans

Shape Pocket 1

African Pot

Shape Pocket 2

Louise Michaels: Raku pieces since 2000

City Pot II

Bird in Nest

Cow Pot

Crane Pocket

Shell Pot

War Pot

Anasazi Pot

Raku sculpture – I began working in clay as a child and was fascinated with how freely I could create shapes and meaning with enormous expressive opportunities. On and off over my lifetime, I continued to return to clay work as a relaxing means of creativity that involved very little computer use (other than research). I was not always satisfied with the results of my stoneware or earthenware work. Eventually I found a place of pure joy with hand-building and the raku process of firing my work.