experience & old man/new art

For over 35 years, I’ve worked as a successful visual artist with clients from diverse markets, serving them through various creative disciplines. From graphic design and illustration to filmmaking and animation, I’ve changed with tech and my interest in making a creative and purposeful life.

I continue gaining new experiences and clients. In addition to my life in art, I have a professional coaching degree (CPC). This has helped me tailor information to students and clients—focusing on topics and methods designed to help each creative individual in a way that speaks to their unique talents.

With my YouTube channel, Old Man/New Art, I look at how professional and aspiring creatives can navigate business and, more importantly, understand and connect to their processes to get the most from their journey.

practical animation & filmmaking

In my early childhood, I remember looking at the same frames from a small collection of Viewmaster discs.

Different from the cartoons of the 60s and 70s, the colorful dioramas were comforting, creepy at times, and looked like nothing else. Around the same time, the films of Alexander Rou, especially The Night Before Christmas, a.k.a Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, and Jack Frost (Morozko), burned into my brain and remain there today. Eventually, it led me to the pioneering stop-motion animators Ladislas Starevich, Jan Svankmajer, Jiri Trnka, Karel Zeman, and The Brothers Quay. Couple that with The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Danger 5, and everything on Adult Swim, and I’m what you get!

After years in graphic design and video production, I decided to start Chipblock Studios. Whether it be commercial, narrative, or experimental pieces, my goal with Chipblock is to blend a modern approach with an “old world” traditional aesthetic.

Additionally, Chipblock films everything with puppets in real time—no stop-motion. Live puppeteering brings a more organic and natural performance to what I’m trying to convey.