Illustration

Poker was never this much fun! I built two separate 3D scenes for this. The first is the poker table/room; the second is the human hands and arms. I combined the two and rendered the final composite out as multiple layers. Then in Photoshop®, I added the card faces that were created in separate Photoshop files. Eventually, the final ad was complete.

We needed to show how the client's pipe sealing technology is typically used. They had no cutaway photographs, so I created a 3D model of a manhole access pipe and connecting pipes. In 3D, doing the cutaway is easy, allowing their product and its relation to the pipe joints to be seen readily.

This is one of my favorites, and one of my earliest forays into 3D modeling style illustration. The client manufacturers headsets for computer, telephony, speech recognition, and voice control applications. A photo of the headset wouldn't work when it came time to composite the head and headset; therefore, I built the model of their headset product, but pur-chased the human head model. Putting the headset on the head in 3D space allowed me to get the exact composition and lighting that I wanted. This image is a composite of the same scene rendered out with the material color of the head set to different primary colors.

Cover artwork for thermal management products created by building 3D models of client's heatsink products and rendering 3D "city" scene.

The client needed a cutaway image of a new reed relay product. They supplied the engineering drawing for the product, and a set of prototype component parts for the actual product. This required that I build a 3D model of the complete assembly. I produced the cutaway by combining multiple renderings of each component layer separately and compositing. Sections of each layer were removed to reveal the layer(s) beneath. The image shown here was used in a press release for the new product.

Someone at ECN Magazine saw the reed relay illustration (see previous image) that I had done for a press release for one of my clients. I was approached by the magazine in January of 2006 and asked if I would be interested in creating a cover illustration for their upcoming March issue. How could I say no? International exposure, plus essentially complete artistic freedom. The only caveat was that the illustration had to depict reed relays, which was their feature editorial in that issue, and it had to be technically accurate. I personally think the editor missed the point with his "Live Long and Prosper" tagline, but that was his artistic freedom!

The client needed to visualize how his product would look in its packaging once designed and produced. I built the 3D product and clamshell package models to achieve that goal.

I had to put this schematic drawing in here, just to show that I do this type of work. I have done hundreds of schematics in my career; this one is probably one of the largest, although not necessarily the most complex. This is one piece of the interconnection wiring for a portable arc welder.