As an artist, I do four things; Oils on Canvas (Social Commentary), Drawings of National Parks, Photography of Birds and California Native Plants and 2D/3D Digital.
Since most here will be interest in digital work, I'll talk about that. I started in the digital world with a TI-99/4a computer in the early 1980's and immediately started creating art and animation with a very limited graphic range in hexadecimal code (16 colors, 256 shapes). I eventually became a published artist for Asgard Software and a year later when out on my own to form “Notung Software” which became on of the most popular TI Software companies. In 2010, I was inducted in the TI-99/4a Hall of Fame.
After making my switch to the PC, I started with Sketcher (the precursor to Painter) and even owned Fractal Design's "Poser 1". I didn't start seriously playing with Poser until Version 3 came around. With the advent of Poser 4, I began by creating textures and started a career as a digital artist, selling my work through Zygote, Vista, DAZ3D, Hivewire3D and Renderosity.
I really didn’t find my nitch in the 3D world until I partnered with BL Render to do the Songbird ReMix Series in 2003. The following year, I came into my own blending my love and knowledge of birds with a strong environmental theme "Threatened, Endangered, Extinct". That set, designed specifically to raise awareness about threatened species and why they're going extinct, became a template for all my work.
Since then I’ve steadily worked on improving my skills with Painter and Modo, and of course, producing more 3D birds and other flora and fauna with a strong environmental message. Today, the Songbird Remix birds have appeared in films such as ”I am Legend”, in Audubon literature and advertising, Duncraft (bird product & seed) advertising, in the museum presentations (such as the National Wildlife Research Center of Saudi Arabia) and even billboards and bus benches for the Omaha Reads promotions.
Besides being a Renderosity Vendor, I work at home as a freelance artist/photographer and also volunteer/lecture at the Theodore Payne Foundation (a Foundation that focuses a native plant awareness) and at Audubon California.
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Comments (17)
drifterlee
Really nice scene and boat!
Cimaira
Wonderful looking scene! The water and the boat look fantastic!
PointLady
Excellent scene, well done with all those figures on their Pacific voyage and of course birds which always make a final finishing touch to an image. Jan
cwrw
Great job! I'm still mucking about in DS4 like a fish out of water. Be a while before I can do an image of this caliber! It sure can do some nice things but it crashes on my Mac all the time...
LBAMagic
Great scene. Love the boats and that water looks fantastic. Your PC must really have some grunt to have all those models in the scene at one time. Amazing.
alessimarco
~This is very nice work!! And very beautiful!!~
Briney
Impressive model and scene... about all its missing is some splashes and wakes etc to give it all some sense of movement... Always good to see some Pacific content too!
Kerya
Definitely wow!
Ometeotl
Great model! And 27 M4s! Holy cow! As you can see by my excessive use of exclamation marks I'm really impressed (c:
vitachick
Hard to get water to look relistic with Daz. Impressive!
thecytron
Xcellent composition!
Fidelity2
P-E-R-F-E-C-T. 5+! I thank you a lot for this one.
Flint_Hawk
This is really impressive! The big view shows the amazing amount of detail in these boats!
adorety
Well done and great scene. The water is very convincing, actually the whole scene is very convincing. DS4 seem to really be making a splash ;) Ouch
psyoshida
I love those boats and the ama from your other scene!! Both are wonderful scenes. The sails are great looking. Your hard work was worth it, it's an impressive scene. I hope they will be for sale. :)
Rhanagaz
Excellent work!! Always hard and creative work to press many charaters into Daz!!..
flavia49
amazing work