About: zooartist

In between teaching Digital Compositing and Animation at Ringling College, I have the opportunity to continue working as a freelance CG artist in my favorite industry. One of the recent gigs was with my good friend Gianni- an amazingly talented Lighter and Compositor who has contributed to such classics as...

If you’re one of the huddled masses who hover over that little phone screen like myself, then you know what Emoticons are: those yellow smiling faces that convey the writer’s mood or facial expressions that people send to each other. The game geniuses at OneUp Games are including a whole...

So you’re standing on a train platform in Cairo in 1903, bags packed, and you absolutely, positively have to get to Cape Town, South Africa – 8,000 miles away. You’re out of luck. The British Empire never bothered to finish it. Granted, it was a big, expensive hobby project that...

I was walking down a Brooklyn street one day and came across this amazing little bistro called Moutarde. I have no idea what that means. I don’t even remember the food, but the facade struck me as just beautiful. Like most artists with their heads in the clouds, I didn’t...

Funny things about HUDs (Heads Up Displays) – the coolest ones are always found in movies and video games. A closeup view of Robert Downy Jr’s IronMan helmet with a contemporary F-15 Falcon HUD is going to look pretty silly – especially considering he’s a technological genius. What they failed...