Welcome to my "home on the net"
Who am I and what do I do?

I've gone from big corporate company to small work-with-my-hands artist.  I've run the full gamut and have now landed in a space where I can continue to grow as an artist and pursue personally rewarding projects.

What the heck does that mean?!?    I have decided to pursue life as a potter.  Working with my hands on things that don't disappear when the power goes out.  Art that will outlast me.   Fewer hours spent in front of a glowing monitor and more time creating.

My home studio is underway, the construction dust is being swept up and the paint on the walls is now drying.  The kiln is warming up and the wheel is spinning.

Teaching.

Teaching and mentoring junior artists while working in the video game industry was always rewarding and I'm finally getting the opportunity to teach again.

I'm teaching two beginner wheel throwing classes, one for kids and one for adults in 2014.  These will be followed by a second kids class and a sculpting class for adults.  I will also be teaching private lessons once the studio is finished and I've acquired a couple more wheels.

So what exactly did I do in the Video Game industry?

I worked professionally as an artist for over a decade.
My various jobs within the industry included:

3D modelling of envornments
3D modelling of in game characters
Character design, Concept Art
Teaching and mentoring and leading junior artists.
Document writing for Asset creation.  (guides for new artists)
among other more mundane things...


I was also privileged enough to have been influential in developing and encouraging a thriving artist community while working at Electronic Arts (Canada).  I created and supported a group called The Art Crew which allowed both artist and non-artist to share ideas, personal work, critique and learn from each other.  By the time I left EAC, The Art Crew was a thriving community of creative minds.  It was extremely rewarding and I'm proud to have built this group from the ground up.

There really were many things I was involved in during my time making video games.  It was fun and challenging, hard work, rewarding and sometimes extremely frustrating but always an adventure.


I have many other pursuits all revolving around art. Drawing, sculpting and casting. Including artwork sculpting and design sculpting.

By all means, if you're able and willing, please post some comments on my work. I always welcome the feedback.

Jeff.

Hi everyone,  I was planning on an update here and discovered that most if not all of the links to my images are apparently broken.

I will be looking into the problem and trying to get it fixed...  Thanks for being patient.

Looks like when I switched over to Google+ in the past, all images got moved over, at some point I think I might have closed the Google+ account which then deleted all the images.  Then I proceeded to re-open the Google+ account but lo and behold, all the images were still deleted and gone...  I've begun re-uploading and re-linking images so things will begin to get back to normal soon.

Jeff.