Freak of science

Lobotomized wrestler

Smallville super soldiers

So Lex Luthor has this secret lab inside a dam, where he's building an army of experimental super-soldiers, and, according to the script, we see a vast room filled with them. First, I started with some quick-sketches to establish the basic design of the room.





The feedback I kept getting was that the frame was too busy and complicated. Keep it simple and go lighter on the sci-fi.
I removed the central tower altogether, and added racks of soldiers in the distance. Tim Ketzer and Glenn Curry built some 3d soldiers to stick in the background, and projected the extreme foreground guys onto crude geometry to get some believable parallax out of them, and I assembled the rest as 3d layers in After Effects.

Here's the final shot

Mr. Mustard

zen tree

From Nanzen-ji temple in Kyoto.

Venice Beach Holy Man

...preaching all things Venice to tourists.

spy show concept art

These were two designs for a network pilot involving a spy and a supercomputer.

They were never used, and never made it past the sketch phase.

spooky cabin

So for the opening shot of the Smallville season finale, we needed a spooky cabin. They cut in some stock shot from the Warner library, which I incorporated into a larger matte painting.

Victorian space probe

These are designs for a victorian-era deep-space probe, complete with bellows cameras and cylinder recording system, which I planned to be the central character in a music video for the song Televators by The Mars Volta. Unfortunately, they went with a different treatment, one which did not contain any old-timey robots or skeletons driving flying steam-sleds.

Eugene Juillerat

A portrait of Eugene Juillerat. Who is that? Who the hell knows. I just ripped it off.