Illustration

Photoshop is my sword, and Maya is my blade. This portfolio of artwork includes a variety of works featured on the covers of technical books, the reels of animated films, and even a scientific journal.

Tellme corporate demo

We delivered a major corporate presentation in the form of a 4-minute animation short demonstrating all Tellme can do with their incredible voice platform. Created with Clive Liew, Scott Strain, Dug Nichols, Emrys Kim, Sarah Caplener, Mike Vasquez, Jeff Hofmann.

  • Created in Flash, Blender, Maya, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools.
  • Completion time: Several intense weeks.

Sifter cover

This is a cover image to accompany the paper my computational biology research group is publishing through Public Library of Science's Computational Biology journal. read more→

Academic Centers 2005 brochure

A brochure to promote UC Berkeley's Academic Centers services. I created the whole design package, except for the photography.

  • Work-related Design
  • Tool: Photoshop
  • Completed: June 2005
  • Duration: A couple of weeks, off and on

 

Academic Centers T-shirt 2005

Although we ultimately went with another (more plain) design, a lot of work was put into making this logo more dynamic and abstract-retro, like a lot of popular T-shirts seen around in Berkeley.

  • Work-related Design
  • Tool: Illustrator
  • Completed: June 2005
  • Duration: A few weeks (off and on)

 

Academic Centers annual report cover 2003

For the background, I exported the Cal logo from Illustrator into Lightwave and did some extreme fiddling with the camera, surfaces, and fog to get the zoom-in effect just right. This 3D rendering was composited in Illustrator. (June 2003)

Building ASIPs

Kurt Keutzer gave me a layman's description of what his Electrical Engineering book was about (as I am not an electrical engineer). Drawing from his source 2D images, I created this. Each set of blocks comes in a different pattern, representing different chipset architectures.

  • Commission for Kurt Keutzer
  • Tool: Maya Software, Photoshop
  • Completed: Spring 2005
  • Duration: A few weeks, off and on

 

Static Crosstalk-Noise Analysis book cover

Prof. Keutzer gave me a layman's description of what his book was about, and, drawing from his descriptions and some of my EE 42/Physics background, I created this electrical spike representation. The explosion and the overlays were created in Photoshop. It's not too terribly complex, but I hope it captures the essence of his book.

  • Commission for Kurt Keutzer
  • Tool: Maya Software, Photoshop
  • Completed: April 27, 2004
  • Duration: One week, off and on

 

Academic Centers Annual Report 2004

For the Academic Centers' annual report, I decided to be quite a bit more artistic. I envisioned a student working into the night, sitting in front of her desk reading. She's living in the Unit 1 dorms here at UC Berkeley. The campanile in the background, the symbol of UC Berkeley, is silhouetted by a large, dream-like moon.

  • Commission for the Academic Centers
  • Tool: Maya Software, Photoshop
  • Completed: Summer 2004
  • Duration: Two months, off and on

 

Humpty Dumpty

This piece was created for a childrens' computer game. Here, the player must prevent Humpty Dumpty from being such an egghead. The graphics were colored in Photoshop, and the outlines were hand-drawn, scanned into the computer, and cleaned up. 

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