Teach Photoshop and Visual Effects in 3 departments:
Visual Effects, New Media and Illustration
Illustrator
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January 1986 - Present
Typography, Design Retouching & Illustration for films, commercials, books & CD’s.
• Photographic retouching and compositing for advertising agencies.
• Photoshop & Digital Imaging Instructor @ Academy of Art University in San Francisco
• Designed & Illustrated nearly 75 book covers for the Uncle John’s series Humor/Reference books.
Visual Effects Art Director
Industrial Light & Magic
June 1996 - 2005
Commercial Director/Art Director
(Colossal)Pictures
March 1982 - January 1996
Film animation company in San Francisco Directed and Designed animated TV commercials
and interactive screens in every shape and description for Chevy,Apple, Microsoft, Perrier, Coke,
Lowenbrau,TV Guide, Nickelodeon, Disney & MTV, and was awarded an Emmy & Clio for the
mantlepiece. (Near-miss claim-to-fame was designing the California Raisins.) Designed type for a
number of feature film title sequences, including "Brenda Starr," "Peggy Sue Got Married" and
"Jack."; Motion graphics, animated logo titles, special effects camerawork, and
"streaky, strobey,
Film Designer
Ritter/Waxberg Animation
February 1979 - January 1982
Motion graphics, animated logo titles, special effects camerawork, and
"streaky, strobey, slit-scan photography."
