SAFER Systems has software that allows you to track a chemical release in the air using real-time weather data. It prevents countless lives from being lost in neighboring communities. SAFER's sales team wanted an emotional message to get this idea planted into their customer's heads. I began creating a bunch of sketch ideas for this campaign, and ended up narrowing it down to 12 options. This was the popular choice. The demographic of EHS Managers suggested that most of them would have kids or even grandchildren. I figured showing children under distress would get them more motivated to pay attention to what SAFER had to say.

With the purpose of proposing an alternative to paper usage in schools, firstly I needed to emphasize the drastic effect it has on the environment in its current standing. This was done as a graphic design project, but also as a pitch to the Aggie Green Fund for a potential grant. The project was broken into three parts, each initiated by the phrase "Did You Know?" Part one is about highlighting the problem, so it has a red and yellow colorscheme. Part two details the destruction occurring to nature, so the green colors work well here. Part three talks about why nature needs to be preserved, so a comforting blue and pink [...]

Starting with a Kinect camera, TouchDesigner, a projector, and a few more webcameras, Laura Murphy and I set up a system that utilized projection mapping's most apparent flaw. Shadows cast by the projector are an important factor, rather than a hindrance, with our setup.We then gave the system to the Texas A&M dance department, where they created costumes and choreographed a dance that took full advantage of the technology. The video explains the whole process.

The full title is "Lil' Einstein's Manhattan Project" and it's still one of my favorite games to play. Programmer Andrew Virostek and I started with an idea that a plane would drop a bomb and cause as much destruction as possible through chain reactions. It's a cute premise based on a dark day in history. Make enough money to upgrade your bomb to the atomic bomb before your science project is due. Overall this is a fun and challenging game. The artistic style was chosen to mimic the idea of a paper diorama, and the whole game partakes in Einstein's garage.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/539834

There are a lot of things required to pull off a wedding and each an every one of them is expensive. We cut costs by having me do all the design work for our own wedding. Our friends also have requested we create some items for their wedding as well. Wedding graphic design is substantially different from the corporate oil and gas industry work that I typically create.

Riceball Root Beer is a brand that I created myself for a graphic design course. Starting with a story about a Japanese man who cleaned rice with carbonated beverages, I created a name and logo around the concept. My main inspiration came from Japanese candy packaging, which featured adorable characters and pastel colors.Once the logo was created, business cards came second and then actual bottle packaging. I wanted a cute bottle to incorporate the adorable rounded logo, so I ended up using a sake bottle that I found at a local oriental market.

This is a small collection of digital character artwork and other paintings that have been done for various projects. Some of the character designs are concepts for 3D projects. They were made for modelers to use as reference. I choose a specific style depending on the purpose of the painting.

For the first three weeks of our game development course, me and three others worked on creating a small prototype called Master Smasher. It revolves around launching a meteor around a gravitational field and destroying all alien spaceships on the current stage. The game got much more interesting when we allowed for the edge case to teleport the meteor to the opposite side of the screen. What initially seemed like a silly idea turned out to be a really fun little strategy game. We used Microsoft XNA and went with a very retro style for the art and audio.It was a favorite among the class and the professor.Currently, the game is not [...]

I was approached by a man who wanted a new logo for his business, which he was very vague about. From what I was able to gather, he leads an international network of IT and programming experts who are contracted out all over the world 24/7. I would design about 20-30 logos a week and send them to him for feedback. He would always say the same thing -- "These are great! Do you have more?" His feedback was never very helpful and he was difficult to reach, so I continued to create additional logo ideas that popped into my head. After creating about 220 logos, he picked one. This is a [...]

Full title is "Super Touchdown Happy Extreme". My final project for game development. Working alongside a talented group of programmers, we wanted to try something different. STHX revolves around bastardizing American football in a Japanese setting. It's a silly idea where you attempt to get your football to travel as high and far as possible by throwing and controlling the ball. You have to avoid negative objects and hit positive objects which will lift you up or increase your speed. You can upgrade the ball and your character as each throw gives you a certain amount of money based on your performance. The inspiration for this game stemmed from those like "Toss [...]