OVERVIEW GALLERY

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TRON: LEGACY An early city study.

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TRON: LEGACY Early concept for the SubLevel beneath Tron City.

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TRON: LEGACY Panoramic study of downtown Tron City at street level. Based on prototype architecture by Ben Edelberg and the set design team, this image was intended to show how the built backlot could extend digitally to a fullblown urban scale. This image was a twin with another node by David Levy.

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TRON: LEGACY Keyframe of Recognizer capturing Sam Flynn at the key intersection of downtown. Recognizer geo by Darren Gilford and Rob Johnson. Some foreground architectural geo by Ben Edelberg.

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TRON: LEGACY Paintover of a previs frame by Scott Meadows' previs team. In some small way, this is my homage to the spinner takeoff in Blade Runner, one of the greatest shots in film.

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TRON: LEGACY Elevational designs for a kit of city buildings. Some of these were elaborated into "hero styling geometry" within the art department, by incredible 3D designers Ben Edelberg and Joe Hiura. The rest were developed very nicely by DD's modelling team, headed up by Ed Taylor and Randy Sharp.

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TRON: LEGACY To help Greg Teegarden and the other great look dev artists at DD, I did this rendered materiality study using one of Ben Edelberg's incredible hero building models.

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TRON: LEGACY A critical task for the vfx design team was to establish and communicate the final city layout. On a localized level, this involved assembling and rendering/illustrating the architecture which extended the built backlot facades and was visible from backlot street level. This is a view looking "south" from the core intersection, and incorporates geometry from Ben Edelberg and DD. The street level and nearby facades are photographic, derived from DD survey panos of the backlot.

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TRON: LEGACY Another backlot extension render. The bottom of frame (up to approx. 15' build height) is photographic, the rest is cg and paint based on Ben Edelberg geometry which seamlessly flows from the actual set design to a set of complete hero buildings.

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TRON: LEGACY Wide view of Tron City, a floating hexagon separated from its continental mass by an open moat which drops into infinity. Image done in partial collaboration with David Levy and Dylan Cole.

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TRON: LEGACY Hero style guide view of Tron City featuring the main central tower. This is an insanely collaborative image. Dylan Cole did the final 2D illo with full texturing, atmospherics, microdetails, etc., based on layout and render passes by me. Tim Alexander of DD did the fantastic model of the tower, and art dept. contributors of geometry and graphic/textural design include Darren Gilford, Joe Hiura, Dave Scott, and David Levy.

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TRON: LEGACY Clu's Rectifier battle cruiser, with a focus on conning tower and bridge. The bridge would later be separated into an independent vehicle we called the Throne Ship. Geo by Joe Hiura and Darren Gilford, with modifications by myself.

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TRON: LEGACY Interior of the Rectifier / ThroneShip bridge. Geo by Joe Hiura and Darren Gilford, with modifications by myself. My light layout, texturing and graphics.

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TRON: LEGACY Arrival platform for the Disc Game Arena. Recognizer geo by Darren Gilford and Rob Johnson.

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TRON: LEGACY Design for the basic disc courts. Modular so that courts can be formed from two or four glass player boxes as the tournament progresses and players are knocked out. Graphics by the incomparable Dave Scott.

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TRON: LEGACY For the final round, eight courts form the "ubercourt" which morphs to form ramps and other unique features. Graphics by the incomparable Dave Scott.

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TRON: LEGACY Exterior view of the EOLC - End of Line Club. Based on 3D geometry by Kevin Loo, which was in turn inspired by set design by Luis Hoyos and a wide illustration by David Levy.

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TRON: LEGACY EOLC interior. 3D/2D detailing pass over Kevin Loo / Luis Hoyos set design. Characters painted in by Steve Jung.

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TRON: LEGACY Study for procedural rock terrain in the "Outlands" of Tron World. Generated with hand-made texture maps and vector displacement shaders to displace at diagonal angles.

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TRON: LEGACY Hidden entrance to the garage underneath Flynn's safehouse. David Levy did some great preliminary work on this before I got to it.

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Virtual set for a Noggin kid's show pilot.

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PERSONAL Study in classical architecture.

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MARIAH CAREY "BOY" VIDEO Layout, texturing and rendering methodology.

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AVATAR A first pass at the zero-G cryovault inside the ISV Venture Star spacecraft. In designing the cryovault, my personal goal was to completely avoid any "floors" or "beds" which would give a sense of gravitational orientation. The reason I stuck two people in each unit, facing opposite ways, was so that gravity was immediately denied at the most basic level. The lockers are placed for good line of sight and access for the cryo unit occupants, but this actually orients them counterintuitively (perpendicular) to the space's main walls. I also did study cameras and animations which had the view continuously rolling and adopting new orientations, and I was very gratified to see some of this in the final film.

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AVATAR Before closing in on the final space layout, I was asked to do studies with various locker positions and degrees of openness. These illustrations had a layer of ISS-derived tech dressing that I never revisited in later renderings and unfortunately never made it into the movie. Always do a final, definitive illustration of your design, even when there seems to be no time! Otherwise things can easily be forgotten.

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AVATAR Close to the final set seen in the film, this LinkRoom rendering incorporates design geometry by myself, Victor Martinez and Scott Baker. Synthesizing a bunch of inherited elements into a more finished design, I tried to give the impression of extreme high sci-tech, but with some slickness and coherence that makes the room feel like a single medical instrument. More info in this io9 article.

Close to the final set seen in the film, this LinkRoom rendering incorporates design geometry by myself, Victor Martinez and Scott Baker. Synthesizing a bunch of inherited elements into a more finished design, I tried to give the impression of extreme high sci-tech, but with some slickness and coherence that makes the room feel like a single medical instrument. More info in this io9 article.

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AVATAR James Clyne did a number of great overall studies of the OpsCenter, but Rick asked me to detail out a more finished version of many tech components of the room. I began by focusing on the central platform with its technologized soffit, holo table, and side workstations, which I posited as rotating spherical display consoles. Flows of conduit from soffit to ceiling were designed, as explicitly requested by Rick, to visually suggest a tree, making the Ops platform a technological cousin of Hometree but networked for a different and darker purpose.

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AVATAR The remote science station was known on the production as the Shack. I got to develop the final architectural bones of the Shack modules based on great, earlier 2D and 3D work by James Clyne, Andrew Reeder and Sean Haworth, and also on a fullsize mockup developed by Rick and Sean. Beautiful door design by scifi detail master Kevin Ishioka. Special attention was paid to lightweight aircraft-style structure in the hab module, articulation of the adaptable legs, and clearances for wheelchair access.

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TERRA NOVA Unused spec sketch.

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TERRA NOVA Unused spec design.

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TERRA NOVA Unused spec design.

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D&D Design and 3D matte shot.

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D&D Design and 3D matte shot.

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PERSONAL Pano photo from inside a giant water pipe, not yet installed.

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WONDERS Test render from a game project. Done with Jin Sung.

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MUSIC VIDEO Digital environment for a Ginuwine video.

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Unused artwork for a movie pitch.

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MOH Matte painting for a game cinematic.

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PERSONAL Sketch of a future asian slum.

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TRANSFORMERS Unused concept for the Bumblebee containment facility.

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TRANSFORMERS 2 Door development for various gov facility sets.

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THE RING Finished shots of a VCR interior, prevised for the film but finished for the trailer. Done with PeiPei Yuan and Raul Moreno. Final high-res model by Phactory.

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THE RING Finished shots of a VCR interior, prevised for the film but finished for the trailer. Done with PeiPei Yuan and Raul Moreno. Final high-res model by Phactory.

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PERSONAL Stone arch study.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. Transit system for a cylindrical space habitat. Developed in conjunction with Paul Ozzimo.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. Structure at axis of a cylindrical space habitat.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. Cenotaph mechanism for reprocessing human beings.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. Cenotaph mechanism for reprocessing human beings.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. "Glass House" club study.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. "Glass House" pleasure module, which I dubbed the "f*ckbox".

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. "Glass House" pleasure module, which I dubbed the "f*ckbox".

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. Environment for "Thinker" AI.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. Environment for "Thinker" AI.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork. Environment for "Thinker" AI.

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LOGAN'S RUN Unused development artwork.

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PERSONAL Abandoned foundry interior.

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CAT IN THE HAT 3D VFX concept, done in collaboration with Duane Floch.

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CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 3D dev of the boy's house, based off 2D concepts by Simon Murton.

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CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Chocolate river concept.

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CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Chocolate river concept.

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CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Elevator and tube concept.

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DETECTIVE FILE Geo from pitch cinematic for a game.

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DestiNY Visualization to pitch an eco theme park.

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DestiNY Visualization to pitch an eco theme park.

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JESSICA SIMPSON "LITTLE BIT" Music video virtual set.

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Unused music video environment.

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FULL CLIP Pitch concept for an indie film.

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Unused keyframe sketch for a movie teaser.

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MATRIX 2 Freeway intersection build for trucktop fight and jetshot previs - based accurately on an actual interchange in Germany!

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MATRIX 2 Still from my "Jet Shot" previs. Industrual arch. modelling help from Derek Fisher.

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MATRIX 3 3D concept for tunnel environment.

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PERSONAL Mudbox experiment. I love the idea of using sculpting tools for decorative or degraded architecture, but I haven't really done it other than this quick test.

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PERSONAL An experiment in totally irresponsible, messy tech detail. Done while on vacation in a tropical locale. What is wrong with me?

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SUPERMAN RETURNS Interior set design for Superman's crystal ship.

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SUPERMAN RETURNS The underbelly of a shattered Krypton.

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SUPERMAN RETURNS Fortress of Solitude interior. 3D design including areas to be built as a set, and extensions.

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SUPERMAN RETURNS Stairway on Luthor's island. Inspired by a Tani Kunitake storyboard layout.

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THE TERMINAL 3D illustration of entry to terminal.

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THE TERMINAL 3D exterior meshing locations and sets into a reasonably coherent spatial design.

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THE TERMINAL 3D exterior meshing locations and sets into a reasonably coherent spatial design.

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THE TERMINAL 3D rendering of key central kiosk. Set design by Luis Hoyos and many others.

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VOLVO COMMERCIAL 3D concept design.