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Megan Campbell asked me to take some semi-professional photos of her for her portfolio. She’s a dancer and performs with fire, on stilts, and if you’re lucky, will grind metal off her crotch. The photos are pretty self-explanitory. I took them all with my Nikon D50 and polished them up in Photoshop. Check them out here.

Combustion Ground Rules is published! I co-authored this book with Todd Peterson. It covers beginner to intermediate level compositing using Discreet’s Combustion. If you’re curious about compositing or Combustion, go buy it!

This is a movie I made that has wide spread religious ramifications. . . not really.

This is an article comparing the 3 most popular cloth simulators in 3ds max. I wrote this article for part of Digimation’s monthly newsletter. The developer of Sim Cloth 3 has requested that this review be re-written sometime during the summer of 2003, as his software was still in beta at the time of this review. We will see if the tables turn.

This is a visual effects shot I did for fun. It shows Doug’s long time dream of stopping a car by kicking in its radiator.