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One of my
favorite recent projects was to create surface textures for the technical
demo of Sega's new platform, Dreamcast. I was a contractor for Captivation
Digital Laboratories, Inc. in El Granada,CA (One of my all-time favorite
teams with which to work.)
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Betty Cunningham,
the art director, was so good at describing what she wanted that many of
these textures were used from the first attempt, and the others needed minor
changes. All of the room geometry was created in-house by Betty, Beckett
Gladney and Taunya Schiffer. And Betty had her team (including Scott Jenkins
in LA) create interior objects and animating objects, but most of my work
on the textures was done in my own studio, 50 miles away, and FTP'd to the
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This platform
allows for a high resolution and some wonderful effects, like being able
to see through the geometry, as long as the texture has transparency or
transparent sections like the lace curtain. You can move so close to the
wall that you're cross-eyed, and not be able to see the pixels! I enjoyed
all the work, from the see-through lace curtain to the fuzzy carpets to
the watermelon.
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Captivation also
used my texture work for Sega's internet game, HEAT, and for a demo program
to show off 3Dfx's newest graphics excellerator. I worked as part of the
concept team for the 3Dfx project as well as being one of the texture artists.
My texture page shows
a selection of the texture maps for those projects. |
| Betty
Cunningham, who is mentioned above, was not only my art director on
this and other projects, she was also a valued friend and respected artist.
The art community lost a marvelous talent when she died unexpectedly in
September, 2000. |
