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My formal education was in photography and film, but there's many new digital processes & techniques still to explore. I earned my BFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology while working for Eastman Kodak (they even paid for it!). I ended up working for Kodak for more than 27 years. During the late 1980's I was a member of the team that brought about digital photography at Kodak. Before I left Kodak in 2001 I was involved with lenticular imaging, an auto-stereographic 3D print technology. It seems to be the perfect medium for much of my work. .
I became a digital artist in early 1984 when I purchased my first computer, a Macintosh 128K, with MacPaint. I think the computer is the greatest creative tool yet conceived. Over the years I've experimented with desktop publishing, music creation, 2D vector illustration, audio visual production, digital photography, video editing, 3D modeling, fractal generation and so much more thanks to my computer.
These days I use several 3D programs including Poser to create 3D dioramas for my 3D lenticular transparencies. Nearly all my images are still works-in-progress, even my photographs. The ability to save images at various steps in the creative process allows me to go back and take a different path forward often yielding a very different result. In early 2009 I began systematically going through my portfolio and bringing to bear new tools and techniques on problematic images. What other medium allows you to do that?
