After dropping out of art school, I worked for a couple of years as a professional jeweler, then switched to high-tech. I started working in the aerospace industry, and learned computers. I eventually discovered my artistic side could not be kept down, and became a specialist in computer graphics.
Leaving aerospace, I made a major move from the East coast to the West and settled in the Los Angeles area. My first job was in marketing for a graphics display manufacturer. My company made the displays which created some of the images for the original "Star Wars", and when I was sent to an industry conference the Summer that "Star Wars" was released, I met one of the artists who worked on the scene of the Death Star. I stepped forward the following Winter when our company was contacted by Albert Brooks, who wanted some computer graphics for a movie he was making. I was happy to oblige, and not only did my animated face appear on screen, I was an extra in the scene which described how subjects were "tested" to participate in the project that the movie's story was written around. Click here to see my clip.
After Real Life I worked for a couple of years at Information International, Inc. (also known as Triple-I) in their Motion Picture Project group. There we created some amazing high-resolution CGI images, and I got to work on two more feature films, Looker (a Michael Crichton film starring Susan Dey, James Coburn and Albert Finney) and TRON (the original Disney production featuring Beau Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner.)
Check full cast on the IMDB links to see my credits