Summary

I'm a passionate production artist.

Starting over 38 years ago, my experience in the motion picture and television industry began as a back light visual effects artist. By adapting my animation training from the Disney Character Animation Program at Cal Arts, I found myself creating frame by frame cell animation over a light box with an Iwata airbrush on the original TRON feature.

When the digital revolution exploded, I adapted and transitioned to the computer and taught myself to become a 3D generalist creating photo-real visual effects.

While I enjoy doing shot design, animation and lighting, my strongest talent is in photo-real, hard line modeling and surfacing. I've done a lot of set creation / extension and architectural work as well as machines of all kinds. My true passion is aircraft with an obsessive fetish for helicopters that resulted in my receiving my commercial helicopter pilot's license in 2005.

Some of the work shown here is from actual productions and is credited as such. But mostly the work I'm posting is the stuff I do for fun and to feed my curiosity. In some cases the work shown is a little of both.

Hope you enjoy it.

Bill
#modeler #buildartist #3d #helicopters #vfx #aviationart

Skills

Software proficiency

LightWave 3D

Maya

Photoshop

Substance 3D Painter

Reel