I’ve worked as a digital artist since my first job, but my core ability has always been creative design; coming up with something new. If you saw the title ‘Ideator’ and wonder what that means, it’s just a term for someone who is good at coming up with ideas. I used the term ‘Ideator’ because ‘Inventor’ isn’t an accurate title for me, since it is too limited in scope. 

My next creative idea could be a business plan, or a storyline for a computer game, or a script for a movie, or a song from a scale or melody that’s been stuck in my head.

I’ve spent the past 5 years creating my own content for print and video, which I’ll usually license through stock video sites, or sell as merchandise. I always choose to sell designs myself, over working for someone else. The problem is, I don’t have the money to properly advertise, so it hasn’t earned me much.

And things will only get leaner for digital artists in the next few years. AI tools are already completely disrupting the industry. Although I know how to install and use the tools as well as any ‘AI Artist’, especially for animations, I’ve found the work unrewarding, lately. Personally, the less work I have to do to finish a project, the less I value it, regardless of its aesthetic appeal. People see ‘AI’ and consider it worthless. But even if they rave, who cares? It’s not mine, really. This is why I’ve taken down most of my AI animations and stopped posting to social media, unless I made something in Blender 3D, Unreal Engine, or TouchDesigner.

Soon, users will be able to write a prompt and ChatGPT, or Gemini will build them whatever they ask for, better and faster than any human. Good riddance to the work, as far as I’m concerned.

Digital art & design in its present form is dying and I’ve never been much of a classical artist. So I’ll continue to make seamless looping videos, because I love making them, but aside from that, I’m not going to spend much time doing digital design.

Instead, I’m going to pivot into developing and licensing my IPs, as well as sharing the ideas I can’t pursue myself on YouTube and social media. Perhaps once I have proven my ability, I can also innovate for hire, if the opportunity presents itself.

I’ve always been passionate about inventing and ideation, but even the best idea you could conceive is worthless when no one respects your potential enough to invest in you.

I don’t expect anyone to understand my life until I’ve shared my story. I don’t expect anyone to hire me to solve a problem, or come up with a new product until I’ve shown I’m capable of doing so.

So, although I’ve had many good ideas, as well as a heavy story to share, I’ve lacked the means to do so. For the first time in my life, I have a means to share my concepts and ideas.

I cannot work full-time, but I I am still available for small design projects and I can help with anything listed below. Email me if you have questions.

· – — —═╡Skills╞═— — – ·

• Print On Demand product design

• Live Audio /Video Streaming and Audio-Reactive Generative Art

• High-End Desktop Hardware Consultation for Design Workstations for Video Editing, 3D Modeling, Virtual Production & Interactive Art & Media Installations

• Rapid Design Concepting

• Creating a Compelling Product Story

I wear many hats, so please contact me if you need something I haven’t specifically listed.

· – — —═╡Experience╞═— — – ·

I have been working with customers since I opened my first company, an online animated GIF ad design service called BudgetBanners.com (1999)*
*You can see a copy of the original site HERE, if you’re curious.

• — ╡Freelance Graphic Designer╞═ – · Creating graphic and video assets for print and digital media.

• — ╡Technical Artist/Texture Artist╞═ – · Worked in PC game production for 3 years, as a Level Designer, then as a Technical Artist, creating the in-game seamless texture assets for AAA titles.

• — ╡Freelance Web Designer╞═ – · Created eye-catching graphics and animations for the user interface and layout of dozens of websites.

• — ╡Product Designer╞═ – · I create products and sales copy for Print On Demand and Direct-To-Print products for clients as well as my own company. I’ve designed many shirts, stickers, posters, pillows, shoes, watches and even skateboards. See the Print Design page for more info.

• — ╡Owner/Operator╞═ – · I’ve designed, built and populated a fully operational online store and used it to sell my own line of products designed by me. My Shopify store had dozens of integrations with different Drop-Shipping and Print On Demand services. I ran my own Affiliate system with it’s own login portal. I still own several online shops, like this one and this one.  You can see some of my Shopify products on the Print Design page.

• — ╡AI Art & Design Tools╞═ – · I am well-versed in the use of AI tools for image training and generation. I’ve been working with AI generative software since 2018 (starting with Google’s Deep Dream) and I can make some amazing stuff with Stable Diffusion, but the real power of AI is in using add-on extensions, such as ControlNet (for accurate features), Deforum (for AI animations), Multi-Diffusion Tiled VAE (for upscaling images to print sizes, without losing detail), Inpaint Anything (for fixing parts of an otherwise amazing image, such as hands), Kohya-SS (for training custom LoRA models) and many more.

If you have questions regarding my skills or experience, don’t hesitate to message me via email HERE, or you can message me through Instagram or via one of my other social media links via the top or bottom of the page.