A bit about myself...
I am an Art Director - Designer with an expansive and broad experience working in animation and film, specializing in environment design, concepts and colour stylizing. Coming from a history of 2D traditional paint and illustration skills, I mainly now work within various digital mediums.
My first 10 career years was working as a graphic designer and digital embroiderer, strengthening my traditional skills with corporate, sporting and educational branding.
I then decided to further pursue more creative & challenging roles, in a field that I longed to work in for many years...film, TVC & animation. I firstly took on the role as Background-Landscape Painter with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation, for the TV animated series Lil’ Elvis & The Truck Stoppers.
Soon after, I was employed by Disney Toons Studios Australia, as a Background Artist. With close to 10 years of employment, I worked on 13 feature films & various other TV projects, and went on to become Background Head Supervisor. With the work being so creatively expansive and stylized, and of such high standard expectations, the experience was challenging and very fufilling.
I have recently just completed work on two 3D Maya based projects with Flying Bark Productions. Firstly as Set Designer and Environment Colour Stylist for the TV series Zeke's Pad . Then went on as Art Director for the 26 episode 3D series Legend of Enyo, which with a very high end realistic look , was again another enormous challenge for myself and also the very new small studio.
As a freelance designer, I have taken on various ranges of design work duties, from a variety of creative clients & fields, ranging from architectural illustrations, concept character-environment design & matte painting. Recently I was hired as an Illustrator-Concept Artist for George Miller’s live action film, Justice League of America, working alongside a very high level production crew.
Currently, I continue working in all digital mediums, with concept, motion graphics, art direction and design management. And also focusing on working within Maya enviroments, whether 3D, TVC or live action, strengthen my skills with modeling, texturing, matte painting and lighting.
And when time permits, I like to work on original ideas with traditional mediums and occassionally like to work with textiles with my very talented fashion designer wife, Donna Sgro. I also have a very strong passion for photography, exotic plants and collecting Japanese vintage tin robots!
....oh...and um...love watching Star Wars every weekend.
