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Lance began his professional art career in 1990 as a traditional 2D (or
paper) animator,
with a company called American Film Technologies in beautiful Southern California.
Among the various other animation projects at AFT, from '90-'92, Lance was
the "Assistant Director of Animation"
on a season of the animated series "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" for Fox
television and Marvel Comics.
From '92 till the present, Lance has pursued a career in the field of electronic
gaming.
His successes include employment as both Production Artist and/or Art Director,
on a wide variety of projects, ranging in
platforms, and function, while utilizing all of the industry standard applications
and hardware.
His role in the creative process has included:
Creation of conceptual art, such as character and environmental designs.
Production of digital graphics, texture maps and animations, both traditional
and computer generated.
As well as particle effects work and special effects design and animation,
for a great number of games, learning software programs, motion based virtual-reality
rides and art intensive demos.
GAMES & PLATFORMS
"Guardians" - Atari Lynx
"Double Dragon" - Atari Lynx
"Kawasaki Caribbean Challenge" - Super Nintendo
"Batman - Revenge of the Joker" - Sega Genesis
"Ren & Stimpy" - Sega Game Gear
"The Avengers" - Super Nintendo, Sega Game Gear & Nintendo Game Boy
"Alien vs Predator" - Super Nintendo & Nintendo Game Boy
"Normy" - Super Nintendo
"Sox the White House Cat" - Super Nintendo
"Barny" - Super Nintendo
"Pegasus Racer" - Sega Genesis
"Blade" - Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
"The Barenstain Bears - Songs from Bear Country" - PC & Macintosh learning
software
"Tank Girl" - Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis
"Timelapse - Ancient Civilizations" - PC & Macintosh
"Buggy Boogie" - Nintendo 64
"S3 - Savage Island (demo)" - For the release of S3's graphic acceleration
card.
"Aquatica (demo)" - For the release of the Pentium 3 board from Intel.
"Oceanus" - 3D, motion-based ride, for the Expo'98 (the World's Fair in
Lisbon)
& the Portugal Telecom/Virtual Reality Pavilion.
HARDWARE
Macintosh computers
IBM/PC compatible computers, using both DOS and Windows.
Silicon Graphics (SGI) machines
Amiga computers
SOFTWARE
Photoshop 8.0
Studio Painter
Image Ready 8.0
Illustrator 10.0
Freehand
Director 8
3D Studio Max 3.5
Flash 5
Final Cut Pro
Deluxe Paint/Animation
...and the list goes on and on.
ADDITIONAL ENDEAVOURS
Character & logo design.
Designing and silk screening T-shirts.
Writing and performing music, as a lyricist, guitarist and vocalist.
Writing and illustrating several independent comic books.
Writing poetry, short stories, movie scripts and a novel that he hopes to
one day publish.
Cartoon animation for commercials and videos.
And for the past three years, Lance has been designing and generating web
page
graphics and animations for various companies and individuals on the internet,
as well as this site.