I've always been a Maker.
For about 35 years, my career was in making animation. During the first decade, that meant spending many hours a week at an animation desk, drawing with a pencil. Talent aside, anyone who puts in that kind of time is going to learn much about creative expression.
When computers came along everything changed of course. Tangible creations like stacks of animation drawings became points of light in a box. The hard-earned creative skills I had learned needed to be applied to a new set of tools. New frontiers awaited. I started in the early days of computer art, and my skills evolved along with the technology. It was a long learning curve but now I’m as comfortable expressing ideas with computers and software as I am with a pencil.
I continued to make handmade, tangible things between animation contracts, and my hand tools evolved with technology as well. My making process now mostly involves advanced software and high-tech computer-controlled machines, but the skills I honed working with my hands remain the foundation of good design.
A gallery of some other things I’ve made.
Just for fun I once wrote & illustrated a children’s book.
