Technical animation
& data visualization
for studios, product teams
& research groups.

I'm a maker first: photographer turned animator turned creative coder. For two decades I've shipped work other people said were too weird to scope — a drum-controlled army of terracotta warriors, an election rendered as a virus, a 400-year-old settlement rebuilt in a game engine.

My visualizations helped raise funds toward $100 million in building projects, have been viewed 110,000+ times, and appeared in an interactive app at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. My short films screened at the Brooklyn International Film Festival (one of 102 selections from 2,000 submissions across 79 countries), and my renders ran in a feature article in Science.

I work at the intersection where science becomes a metaphoric object of artistic expression — and art becomes the mechanism that conveys scientific problems and possibilities. I've collaborated with researchers in computer science, music, mechanical engineering, disaster science, history, meteorology, and education.

Also: Professor at Texas Tech University, where I teach 3D computer animation and creative coding, and previously served as Director of the School of Art. Before that — founder of Virginia Tech's 3D animation program, director of its MFA in Creative Technologies, and director of the Digital Animation Center at CU Denver.