First commercial artist gig for a game, arranged through buddy Mark who did the 3D ship modeling. We did the artwork over the summer of 92. Star Reach was a game similar to Star Control. I never got a copy, so I’m not sure how it actually played.

(BTW, I didn’t do the ad layout)

interface

Created with DeluxePaint II Enhanced on my IBM-PC, a rippin’ 486DX2-66!

aliens

Created with, I think, Aldus PhotoStyler and touched up in DeluxePaint II Enhanced. I didn’t have PhotoShop back then…

landscapes

Rendered in VistaPro…remember that? This was way before Bryce was available.

sprites

Lots of sprites to show how things were blowing up. Created in DeluxePaint II Enhanced. Still kicks butt over PhotoShop, in my opinion, when it comes to fast pixel editing.

title (unused)

Title screen for the game, went through several revisions, but never had the “pop” that the publisher was looking for. A different artist made it. Never saw it.

These were my first attempts at making any kind of 24-bit color image, incidentally, or drawing anything like this in perspective.

After getting out of Electrical Engineering, I headed to Art School at Rochester Institute of Technology. They waived the studio art requirements for their MFA program in Computer Graphics Design, one of the earliest graduate programs I am aware of.

director

Various student projects, Director 4.04.

3d graphics

Swivel 3D work.

3DS R3 (that’s the DOS version, not Max)

2d graphics

Aldus Freehand work, mostly.

Method Software

The user interface and code was written in Java / IFC to integrate with Method’s chatroom engine. I was the lead interface designer and GUI programmer for Qualia.