Here are some follow up thoughts to my last post on SPEC WORK. Be smart with spec work. There has to be a reason why you would risk your time. Think about some of these things before getting involved.
1. IF the client sought you out and expressed a deep interest in YOUR work for [...]

A month ago or so I posted a bunch of testing we did at Igniter with our new Canon 7d. The videos are finally out now and I’m happy to share them with you guys. Rob and Jeff wrote the scripts. I was the lead for the project – meaning I directed, chose actors, and [...]

About 8 years ago, Toby Mac was interested in hiring me as a full time designer for Gotee records. He knew I had the skills but my portfolio was much weaker back then. He asked me to create a design via spec. In my arrogance, I said, “no.” I felt that I should be paid [...]

I’m real excited to be teaching a session at the Simply Youth Conference in Chicago along with several others from RT Creative Group. (I’m not excited that it’s in February – freezing!!!) So here’s where I need your help… It is NOT a media conference but there will be plenty of people there who are [...]

This amazing video has been circulating the web for a few weeks. A breakdown of the compositing was posted and it is just as enlightening as the last video I posted about compositing. Watch and be amazed! Let me know what you think. Pretty cool, huh?

Advanced Photoshop has a feature article spotlighting a handful of artists that use Photoshop and 3d together. I have a few of my pieces featured including one I did for the Echo Conference and one I did for Collide magazine.
In addition, I was commissioned to create the 2 page spread of artwork that opened up [...]

My friend, Trent, showed me this video. I really felt it was blog worthy rather than just tweeting it. The video breaks down scenes and shows before and after green screen footy. It makes these shots seem so simple. I know there is an art to getting great looking compositing; but this video gives me [...]