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  • Anyone Remember Peechee Folders?

    This is non-standard! we’ll see this one on DieCast soon…

  • OSU Cow-Troopers

    I’ll post more from this series later down the road, but this design has been popular. At some point in time, the combination of Cowboys and Storm troopers became a thing for me, seemed like the perfect combination of pop culture imagery.

  • Blue Flame Torino

    Quite a few of the prices I have from the early days are like this one. Painted flames, using vinyl airbrush masks, with livery, usually racing logos and a few made up racing team names. Somewhere at about the time this Torino was made, I started using matte paint in combination with glossy paint. The…

  • The Story Behind Wolfee Donuts and Ariana Grande

    This one sits in Wolfee Donuts, Lake Elsinore California to this day. Andrew and I got free donuts for a month for this one! and “no” those aren’t Cheerios on top. They are carefully hand-crafted replica donuts In an odd coincidence, Wolfee Donuts became internationally known for a second in time with Ariana Grande “licked”…

  • Unique Decals Collection Recap

    A lot of collections ended up overlapping at the end of the year. I collage of some of the ones I haven’t yet covered here in the blog. The Nightwish Van in the top right is one of the more complicated decals I’ve made. It is hard to see in the pics, but the base…

  • Creative Holiday Gifts: Memories in Every Custom

    Every Christmas, I make customs for my team at OSUIT. You’ll find a lot of these scattered throughout the campus. I try to incorporate something that connects the person to the last year. Sometimes the references are pretty obscure. The little gifts have become a favorite thing for me to make throughout the year. I…

  • Solving Hard Visual Problems

    When you spend a good chunk of your day making texture maps, you get excited about solving really hard visual problems. Mud, Water, and Snow are all really hard when you paint images mapped to 3D objects that need to look real in the game. These samples are from Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis by…

  • S.O.E. Mentor

    The Art Institutes were a for-profit group of colleges I started teaching with around 2002. I quickly grew to love the San Diego campus I was working at and would stay there for almost 16 years. The experience changed my career forever and I left production work behind, closing Cubicle Arts around 2003 to concentrate…

  • Where Cubicle Arts Began

    Cubicle Arts started off as a Production House for video game assets. When I started Cubicle Arts, the world of video game contracting looked much different than it does today. Just moving files from one location to another was complicated beyond belief. My first client was a little company named Bungie, with a small RTS…

  • I Do Tutorials Also! Ancient Lightwave Tutorials

    When you teach software classes, the job comes with a ridiculous amount of tutorial creation. Over the many years I was teaching or directing programs, I created enough tutorial content to fill a Tb drive. I eventually worked with professional training sites with Lynda.com, The Game Institute.com and Desktop Images being a few. Below is…