Overview
Art department lead with over 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Versatile, reliable and proven in designing, fabricating and painting miniatures and props. Shown to be effective at running crews of all sizes for over 20 years. Objective is to continue work as an Art Director, Art Department Supervisor or Lead position.
Experience
2023 Movie Mountain
Fabrication of a miniature autonomous agricultural combine for Nike display on their main campus. Fully animatable.
2022 Andymation Flipbooks
Fabrication of 1/24th scale miniature Mad Max apocalyptic style cars for a short YouTube video about his animation flip books (in the future!).
2022 Wieden and Kennedy
Fabrication of Parking Kitty Kiosk for guerilla street art and interactions with public concerning parking tickets in the downtown Portland Oregon area.
2022 Private Owner
Restoration of original screen used stunt shotgun from the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
2020 - 2022 Netflix Animation
Held a position with the Netflix original stop-motion animation movie Wendell & Wild as a lead fabricator of miniatures and as a set dresser. This movie is directed by Henry Selick and has the voices of Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key.
2019 Private Owner
Restoration of the original patterns for the rocket pack from the movie The Rocketeer.
2019 T-Minus LLC
Fabrication of a 1963 NASA Project Mercury Escape Tower miniature in 1/24th scale. To be used as a shooting miniature for the project T-Minus.
2018 Movie Mountain
Designed and fabricated two robot puppets and four miniature cryo tanks for Wake Me Up When We Get There. Finalized design for and fabricated the spaceship shooting miniature.
2010 – 2017 Laika
Head of the Model Shop for the movies ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls.
Model maker for Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link.
As head of the Model Shop, I re-designed the physical layout of the model shop for better collaborative interaction within the crew, strengthened communications to increase productive interaction with other departments, led a crew of a dozen creatives to develop look and style of the films and kept us on deadlines. To keep proprietary designs in-house, have quicker turn-around and greater control, I successfully oversaw installation of a metal plating system - nickel and gold.
The Boxtrolls Model Shop produced over 20,000 individual handmade props – a record for stop-motion animation projects.
2009 - 2010 ShadowMachine
Model and set fabricator for Titan Maximum, Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole and a Bonnaroo Music Festival online ad.
1996 - 2009 Various Studios
Model Shop Crew Chief or lead on Down Periscope, Mission to Mars, X-Files Movie, HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon, Supernova, Reign of Fire and more.
1987 - 1996 Various Studios
Model, props, set fabricator and restorer on a variety of movie, television, commercials, internet and other entertainment industry projects (see list below).
Skills
Experienced with design and fabrication through a wide range of materials, tools and techniques. I am proficient at meeting hard deadlines. I am known for strong organizational and communication skills and for being detail oriented. I have led crews both large and small.
Blender, Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Word proficient. Working knowledge of Rhinoceros and Illustrator .
Education
Bachelor of Applied Arts from Central Michigan University; Major in Cinematic Arts, Minors in Advertising and Marketing
List of Projects
