- stuff I did
Books
Mastering Blender Game Engine - Author
Blender for Dummies - Center Color Insert
Real-Time Rendering, 3rd Ed. - Depth based ambient occlusion
Bounce, Tumble, and Splash - Cover art contribution, fluid chapter
Essential Blender - Cover Art contribution
BlenderArt Magazine Issue 6 - Architecture and Games
Talks
2010: Pisa Blender Workshop
2010: Vancouver CGMovement
2009: Vancouver Blender workshop (spring)
2008: Amsterdam Blender Conference
2008: Vancouver Blender workshop (summer)
Jobs
2010: IFC - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy:
Scientific Visualization Unit
2008-2010: UBC Fisheries Centre, Canada:
Marine Visualization and interactive applications
2009: Entertainment Arts Research, USA:
Third Person Action Thriller game
Hi, I am Mike.
I think of myself as a CG generalist, with working knowledge of modeling, animation, lighting, compositing, special effects, realtime graphics and programming. I do all my 3D work almost exclusively in Blender. I also do a bit of digital photography when I am not busy playing with computers.
I am currently working in Italy with a scientific visualization group who uses Blender for biomolecular visualizations. Before that, I worked on a marine ecosystem visualization project at the University of British Columbia in Canada for two years. As a visualization specialist, I work with a small team to tell a visual story of our fragile aquatic ecosystem. Dalai Felinto and I presented a small part of our work at the 2008 Blender Conference in Amsterdam.
I can be reached at
should you want an estimate, have a question, or just want to say hi.You might also want to check out my YouTube and Flickr page.