AFFILIATIONS
CREDITS
ZEVO - Creature Designer: The Embassy VFX 2025
FLONASE “Save Your Relationship With Nature” - Creature Designer: The Embassy VFX 2025
VOLKSWAGEN “Electric Feels Good” - Concept Designer: The Embassy VFX 2023
SPIDERMAN: ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE - Visual Development Artist: Sony Pictures Animation 2022
BELL HELICOPTER MISSION SCENARIO INTERACTIVE TABLE EXPERIENCE - Storyboard Artist: 900LBS of Creative 2021
BELL HELICOPTER SKYPORT INSTALLATION - Concept Designer: 900LBS of Creative 2019
UNANNOUNCED GAME - Concept Illustrations: Roosterteeth 2018
CAPITAL ONE - Concept Designer: Carbon VFX 2017
BORDERLANDS 1-3, DLCs, PRE-SEQUEL - Senior Concept Designer: Gearbox Entertainment 2007-2017
BATTLEBORN - Concept Designer: Gearbox Entertainment 2016
VERIZON DROID "Eye" - Concept Designer: McGarry-Bowen 2013
FREE BIRDS - Concept Designer: Reel FX Animation 2013
ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES - Senior Concept Designer: Gearbox Entertainment 2007-2012
TV COMMERCIAL VFX BID - Concept Designer: George Hull Design 2009
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - Previz Animator: Persistence of Vision 2007
UNIQUE - Previz Animator: Persistence of Vision 2007
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES "Now Showing" - Visual Development: XO/Exopolis, Inc. 2006
AREA 51: BLACKSITE - Concept Designer: Midway Games 2006
TOYOTA TACOMA “Nessie” - Concept Designer: Method Studios 2006
xXx: STATE OF THE UNION - Concept Designer: Persistence of Vision 2005
AT NIGHT (short film) - Storyboard Artist: Moth Films 2005
A SCANNER DARKLY - Animator: Detour/Warner Independent Pictures 2005
PIXEL PERFECT - Concept Designer: Reel FX Creative Studios 2004
HALLOWEENTOWN HIGH - Concept Designer: Reel FX Creative Studios 2004
G.I. JOE VALOR VS VENOM - Concept Designer: Reel FX Creative Studios 2004
DAY OF DISASTER - Concept Designer: Reel FX Creative Studios 2004
ELMORE LEONARD’S "There’s A Coyote In The House" (book) - Illustrator: Reel FX Creative Studios 2004
CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE PARADE/PARK - Concept Designer: Reel FX Creative Studios 2003
G.I. JOE SPYTROOPS - Concept Designer: Reel FX Creative Studios 2003
SAVING JESSICA LYNCH - Matte Painter: Reel FX Creative Studios 2003
JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL PARK & STATUE: Design and Asset Manager (defunct) 2003
ZAFARI - Concept Designer: Persistence of Vision 2002
RKS DESIGN, INC. - Product Designer 2001
CREATIVE CAPERS ENTERTAINMENT - 3D Artist / Storyboard Artist 1995, 2001
PUBLICATION
LIGHTHOUSE: A COMPENDIUM OF THE VISUAL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS - Master of Fine Arts Thesis [scholarship] 2024
TRAVERSE - Project Manager / Editor / Illustrator: Design Studio Press 2021
NUTHIN’ BUT MECH 4 - Co-Project Manager / Editor: Design Studio Press 2018
NUTHIN’ BUT MECH 3 - Project Manager / Editor / Illustrator: Design Studio Press 2015
WOOSH! - Designer / Art Director: Design Studio Press 2015
NUTHIN’ BUT MECH 2 - Project Manager / Illustrator: Design Studio Press 2014
NUTHIN’ BUT MECH - Project Manager / Illustrator: Design Studio Press 2012
BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO SKETCHING: ROBOTS, VEHICLES, & SCI-FI CONCEPTS - Tutorials: 3D Total 2019
VFX VOICE PROFILE V-ART, VOL. 1, NO. 3, P.108: Visual Effects Society [read online] 2017
THE SILVER CORD: SPECIAL THANKS 2015
SOFA SPACESHIPS HAVE LIFT-OFF: Imagine FX Magazine [document] 2015
CONCEPT A SCI-FI VEHICLES USING MISCHIEF: Imagine FX Magazine [image] 2015
UNEARTHING MECH ART SECRETS: Imagine FX Magazine [image] 2013
CINEFEX ARCHIVES iPAD APP - Digital Artist: New Scribbler [image] 2013-2014
CONSTRUCTING AN ICON: Game Informer Magazine [document] 2010
PROFILE: 2D Artist Magazine [document] 2007
DLP: THE POWER OF PICTURE - Illustrator: Reel FX Creative Studios 2004
MENTION
SECTOR 7: AND OTHER MERZ - mention: Neil Campbell Ross [link]
PROFILE: The Spaceshipper [link]
JOE JOHNSTON - NUTHIN’ BUT MECH 1 CALL OUT: lwoodesign.com [link]
IS THIS HEAVEN? - Special Thanks: Marauder Film, Director: Bastiaan Koch
STAR WARS CONCEPT ART AND ILLUSTRATIONS - Concept Art World
SUPER COOL STAR WARS ART TO AWAKEN YOUR SENSES - CNET
GORT WAS ALMOST A SYLON CENTURION - i09
BORDERLANDS 2: DOES CLAPTRAP DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? - Venture Beat
MAKING GAMING’S MOST OBNOXIOUS ROBOT - The Verge
BORDERLANDS: 12 HIDDEN FACTS ABOUT CLAPTRAP YOU NEVER KNEW, MINION - The Gamer
BEHIND BORDERLANDS’ 11TH-HOUR STYLE CHANGE - Gamespot
A GUIDED TOUR OF BORDERLANDS 2 CONCEPT ART - GameInformer
INTERVIEW: THE BORDERLANDS 2 TEAM TALKS CLAPTRAP - Complex
EDUCATION / ACHIEVEMENTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
MASTER OF FINE ARTS - Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication: Animation 2024
BACHELOR OF ARTS - Visual and Performing Arts 2020
INSTRUCTOR: MECHS AND ROBOTS ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN - ArtCenter College of Design 2020-2022
INDUSTRY GIANTS - Guest Speaker 2015
ART BYTES "Previsualization" - Guest Speaker: Dallas Museum of Art 2009
LECTURER - University of Texas at Dallas 2006-2007
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS - Proselytizing and Service Mission 1998-2000