175th Anniversary Theme

Logo design for a non-profit.

The Suburbs

quick sketch for a client project.

27 of Dem Dare Bones

A rejected style frame. Dang.

Abstract Motion Design

Dive through a Data Cloud

Bombastic

Eagle Vision

Hell yea! Our eagle can kick your eagle's ass.

Plasma Trails

Plasma and lightning treatment. Part of a Pitch.

Planting the Field

Style Frame for a TV commercial about Agro products and services. Rendered with Cinema 4D and Photoshop.

Acadia Christmas Card

Here is the final render and composite for this year's Christmas card. The sky is a photo, as well as the rock textures and fire, but everything else is modeled and rendered in C4D. We loved Acadia National forest and are planning to return next year. Let's hope there isn't another government shutdown!
Acadia National Forest 

Magic The Gathering

Title exploration for MTG. 
Cinema 4D, Illustrator, Photoshop, Optical Flares, Stock Footage

Sunrise at Acadia National Forest

Here is a rendering of a 3D landscape created with Cinema 4D r14.
I built the trees and rocks in a "low poly" style, but then added detail and photographic textures to make things look more realistic. The sunrise is a photo, too, of course. The Airstream trailer was modeled to resemble our vintage 1963 GlobeTrotter. The background islands were rendered separate and comped in Photoshop.

This is the base image for our 2014 Christmas Card.

Fred

Low Poly Trees

C4D.

Skulpt Tool with PolyFX

Another experiment with Cinema 4D. I added the depth of field in Photoshop using the Lens Blur filter and a depth pass from Cinema.

Snowflakes

C4D snowflakes.

Turkey In the Straw

According to the writers at Wikipedia, "Turkey in the Straw" is a well-known American folk song dating from the early 19th century. I'm most familiar with it's use by Carl Stalling in many Warner Bros. cartoons.

It's also famously used in the Disney "talkie", Steamboat Willie! What a cool song.

Not so fast there, Pilgrum...

Illustrator.

Amo Bishop Roden

Plexus. After Effects.

To solve problems, make decisions, or develop a plan.

Cloners arranged along paths. C4D.

Waiting for Forever

Cinema 4D

11.11

The Portal has opened. Cinema 4D.

Alien Landscape

Trapcode Particular with Optical Flares

More dumb animation with Particular and Optical Flares.

Student ID photo 1984

Digging through the attic I found some old crap, such as this ID card from my time at Columbia College, Chicago. I was in the TV dept., but often felt that I should have chosen Film or Animation.
Things worked out, though, and it seems as if the invisible hand guiding my life knew the right choice for me. I've been in Post Production and now Motion Design for almost my entire career, and am one of the lucky guys who enjoys his work and looks forward to the next project.
Note: my hair is actually longer right now than in this photo. So much for 80's BIG HAIR.

Morass

Normal and Displacement maps.

Happy Halloween

Mr. Dracula is hawking used cars. I created this illustration for a fast talking Hispanic TV ad.

Dick and Jane

1984

Globey's Uncle

A quick Illustration for a pitch. A little bit of our old pal, Globey, in there.

Ms. Dracula

Based on Wilma Flintstone.

Wacky Graphics

Some fun designs for a corporate meeting to communicate sales objectives and marketing strategy.

Photoshop Oil Paint and Watercolor filters

Experimenting with some of the possibilities of post-processing in Photoshop. The original render from Cinema 4D was a basic shader setup against a white seamless backdrop. The PSD filters look cool as still frames, but tend to flicker and are too wild for a general usage. More testing is needed.

Symbiotic

C4D and some PSD love.

Down on the farm

Illustrator and Photoshop

METADATA

Fresnel material creating the green highlights.

Tractor Illustration

Tractor sketch via Adobe Illustrator.

Empty Pockets

Photoshop and Google.

Rain Drops

RGB Trees