: DINOSAURS :
Gonna be a hot minute, just started website(5/26) and have thousands of pieces of both casual and professional content spanning decades.
This page will take awhile to compile as I have to rediscover and dig up most of the material, can feel the universe giggling at the irony.
Check back daily for refinement and new additions as I discover and extract them from the matrix of what remains.
2500+
30 years
Experience
Sketches, Models, & Notes
And other Natural Phenomenon
Dinosaurs in Their World
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
The exhibit staff at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History were putting together another attempt at rebuilding the monumentally historic Dinosaur Hall. The very room that kicked off the museum craze and the global hunt for more dinosaurs.
Attempts had been made since the mid 20th century with no luck, and it usually boiled down to not having a comprehensive overview of the project. So the challenge was set, and the difference this time was adding another dimension and using real data to plan a 3D layout, so we could see what fit where.
Then I had to do something I did not think I'd have to do: manually measure most of the specimens myself. Often the units I needed were not recorded, and were mostly too arbitrary if so.
I have a thing for accuracy, especially when it's as relevant as this. Measuring a Diplodocus, bone by bone, is quite the experience.
This was all very rushed, quick and dirty, but it worked. The next pitch they finally secured initial funding for what would become a ~37 million dollar project. Things finally kicked into gear, after decades of treading water.
A larger exhibit firm then took over and built a much larger and more thorough scale model. It was incredibly useful as the project proceeded.
In the end the thing the director loved most was the cover of the companion book I made to go with the models. On it was a spreadsheet of every dinosaur and details on the status of each one... they could look at the cover of the book alone and estimate budget and time spanning years accordingly.
Circa 2005
OvirapTour
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Provide a short description of the gallery, highlighting key things.
Circa 2009 : Unreal 3 Engine
Stuffed Animals
Circa 2008
Provide a short description of the gallery, highlighting key things.
Equine Evolution
Circa 2010
Provide a short description of the gallery, highlighting key things.
Misc Exhibitwork
Carnegie Museum of Natural History & Carnegie Science Center
This section is a catch-all for the chaotic input and dev process I used to help the exhibit staff and scientists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History during my years in Pittsburgh.
I was essentially an occasionally paid quasi-volunteer the entire time. Would've been funding projects along the way had I been born wealthy, alas all I could offer was my time, effort, and perspective. The latter of which seemed to help the most, assisting the on-staff designers to compile, interpret, and present the immaculate wonders of our worlds natural history to the public at large. One priceless experience after another.
Circa 1998-2014
Circa 1995 - ongoing
This'll be a random catch-all for sketches of dinosaurs and other creatures, be they extinct, living, or otherwise.
I tried to draw from memory far more often than not, which is painfully obvious at times, but has a nice net effect over time that I liked to exercise regardless.
Did he say "otherwise"? I did, I meant made up critters of sci-fi and fantasy. They'll be put here too, for now.
: Sketchworks :
Nature Studies
Homicide Forenzics
First took the stand as an Expert Witness in the mid 1990's, was barely old enough to legally drink alcohol.
But I could measure, and build, and obsessed over details most would dismiss, and carried zero narrative. The scene itself said everything I was there to explain, and represent the evidence clearly for others to decide.
Effectively solved 2 of the 3 cases worked on, but the outlier didn't need solving. I politely declined to continue once I informed them the opposition would get more use out of a model than they would, and I can't do anything about that. Not that they would need it, the existing evidence was already strong enough.
The stories either fit or they don't.
Nullius in Verba. Results decide, I allow reality itself to be the final judge, revealing the deeper truth every time.
Circa 1997-2009
