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Lead Creature Designer - #AvatarTheWayOfWater and #Avatar Sequels // Past: Disney, Marvel, Netflix, Fox, Universal, WB, Legendary, Sony Santa Monica, etc.
Jan 26, 2023 12 tweets 6 min read
Official #conceptart for the "Skimwing" in #AvatarTheWayOfWater - Part 1.⁠ A Thread🧵

After hundreds of iterations and nearly a year of my life, under the guidance of @DylanColeArt, we finally arrived at this image to get the design over the finish line. Image From the start, Jim had always described it as sort of a "badass flying fish". We always knew it was going to have 3 modes of movement: swimming underwater, "skimming" on top of the water in "ground effect" (an aircraft term I admit I had to google the first time Jim used it),
Jan 24, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
Congratulations to Ben and Dylan and the US and NZ crews for your years of hard work!! Fingers crossed! And a few more! (I mean VFX feels like a no brainer!) Congratulations to all of the incredibly hard working teams!! ImageImageImage
Jan 12, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read
Official #conceptart for the "Akula" for #AvatarTheWayOfWater. A thread 🧵.

On my first day after being hired, @DylanColeArt gave me my first assignment: "I need you to design a Pandoran shark". No pressure.⁠ Image My imposter syndrome had ALREADY been riding incredibly high (getting a tour of the #Avatar2 concept art gallery had already put the fear of god in me), but after he said that I nearly passed out. After picking myself up off the floor, I got to work.⁠