Hobbies & Stuff

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Musician & Producer

I'm a lifelong musician, starting with guitar when I was 5. I was blessed to enjoy many years in the music biz full-time, touring and recording as either a vocalist or guitarist with various rock bands in the 80s & 90s. Even as I made the switch to a design career in 1996, I continued to perform until 2018.

Music is still an essential part of my life; although I no longer tour or play in a band, I enjoy creating in my studio and still produce and release instrumental albums on my own label.

AI Fashion Design

Virtual Fashion is another area I've become interested in over the past decade, starting with forays into 3d modeling using Hexagon and Marvelous Designer years ago.

These days I do nearly all of my concepting with a Wacom Cintiq and a Realtime Canvas tool for which I was a consultant, beta tester and contributor, then it's onto Marvelous Designer, ZBrush, and Blender for final designs and rigged models.

Generative AI

I was an early adopter of AI art applications.

In the past 5 years I've had the opportunity to contribute to the AI Art Community as a beta tester, forum moderator, UI designer, writer, course creator, and tutor.

Pushing apps beyond their limits is fun, and teaching others how to control the output of generative art apps, by infusing their own traditional design and art skills, is extremely rewarding.

Ever since I programmed my first sprite-based game characters in BASIC on a Commodore VIC-20, I've been fascinated with character design. Whether it's pencil on paper, sculpting in ZBrush, or sketching with AI canvases, I love to create characters and the worlds they live in.

Developing workflows for character and fashion designers to transforming my own hand-drawn sketches into beautiful 3d renders is another of my passions.

Character Design