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From my earliest days,
I was always drawing, sketching doodling. I
can remember sitting at the kitchen table, helping my dad to trace an image
of Felix the Cat holding balloons so that I could have my own Felix to play
with.
Cartoon characters eventually
became football players, buildings and an unusual infatuation with amusement
parks. I spent an entire summer designing a park called Enchanted Hills, rides,
building, walkways -- the whole works. I was determined to build the thing
someday outside of Phoenix, Arizona. I decided upon Phoenix, I guess, because
it reminded me of my home in Northridge, just outside Los Angeles. And, shrewd
bugger that I was, I figured land was still cheap enough, but Phoenix would
grow enough to make it a good investment!
The Amusement Park fascination
lead to a degree from the prestigious Architecture school at Cal Poly San
Luis Obispo, and a fascination with computer graphics. I purchased my first
Macintosh in 1988 (a real steal at $2995 for a Mac II chock full of 8 MB of
RAM and a 40 MB hard drive), and the rest, as they say, is history.
My fascination with digital
graphics evolved into a five year stint working with visual effects houses
on motion pictures and commercials and subsequently, to web design work. I
find the field of digital illustration lends itself well to this kind of crossbreeding.
My illustration background helped enormously with my digital effects work,
which also informs and enriches my web design work. I find it counterproductive
to limit digital design skills to one area, and find clients always appreciate
at artist who can bring a breadth of skill and knowledge to the task at hand.
Its my intention to bring
this diversity of skill to the way I help manage projects for my clients.
While providing them with the utmost in creative solutions, I am always mindful
of the deadlines and project constraints we have discussed. If a client gets
excited about a new idea, or change in direction, I always give them my best
estimate of the effect such a change can have upon the project deadline and
budget constraints.
My goal is to maintain
this level of communication with my clients from the beginning to the end
of the project. Its been my experience that clients abhor unpleasant surprises
as much as I do, and my interactions with clients are always guided by delivering
a solution they satisfies both their creative and business instincts.
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