CREDITS

 
 
 

AFFILIATIONS

CONCEPT ART ASSOCIATION

ADAPT.ONE

VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY

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