pixelillustrator

Out of the blue a few months ago I received an email from the Museum of the Rockies about doing some airbrush work.  I still don't know how they found me.  I wasn't looking for extra work.  Rather than turn it down, I priced it high.  They didn't blink. So last week I took vacation time and airbrushed the clouds for the new Children's Discovery room.  It's an interactive room based on Yellowstone Park with murals, animal sculptures and big moving geyser things.

So I really see myself as an animator more than anything else.  Last year I didn't do so much.  I was doing design and photography mostly.  This year I have been making animated educational modules for the web.  Now I have finally finished the first of several short animations explaining the search for the origins of life in Yellowstone National Park. http://hydrogen.montana.edu/video.html or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANoG-5_0o7E I did the filming, animation, and still photography.  The voice over work is done by a friend, Ben Cickowski.

The Extended University has picked 4 of my photographs of Yellowstone for publication.  These card sets are for them to give to scientists or other influential people.  They can then use them individually for holiday/gift/whatever cards.  All the while, the extended university and myself are credited on the back. Small, low-key, but it is vindication.