NEWS:

12-11-2011 Art Center Entertainment Design presents the first Idea To Pitch day. Industry leaders from major studios including Dreamworks, Paramount, Blacklight and Bad Robot attend the event

9-15-2011 Nick started teaching his new class IDEA TO PITCH at Art Center

See Nick's presentation THE FUTURE OF PAINTING on the TEDx Youtube channel

Nick will be presenting the emerging artform of 'Digital Plein air' painting at the TEDxSoCal conference on July 16th 2011 in Long Beach

1-20-2011 After many years working in the visual effects side of the industry Nick is honored to join the Art Directors Guild and be working along side many of his close friends from Art Center

10/10 Nick is on a panel presentation called 'Stumbling Toward Sustainability' that focuses attention on design solutions for environmental problems

9/10 Nick curates and participates in digital landscape painting exhibit at the Aquarium of the pacific

6/10 Worked on visual effects concepts for Green Lantern in New Orlaens

1/10 Teaching Digital Landscape at Art Center

9/09 Teaching Originality at Art Center

10/09 Worked on 'Black Cloth' video game

10/9 Launched Xomaa architecture website

9/08 Teaching Digital Landscape at Art Center

8/08 Working on design of updated Michelin Man

5/08 Grandma dies at 92 the day after Mothers day

3/08 Working on Hulk

1/08 Teaching DIgital Landscape Painting at Art Center

12/07 Designing and building creature models for They Came From Upstairs, continue working on production until fall of '08

9/07 Teaching Originality and Advanced Digital Viscom at Art Center

7/07 Working on Deadly Creatures for Rainbow Studios

8/13/07 My beautiful daughter Julie Nicole is born!

6/21/07 10PM-1AM LACMA party book signing and workshop

4/19/07, 2PM Hennessey and Ingals book signing

4/28/07 Festival of books, Kinokuniya booth

12/06 LUMINAIR will be available at booksellers

12/16/06 I will be in the group show Imaginary Spaces at Nucleus gallery

12/2/06 I will be in a group show at The Source On Lake gallery

11/30/06 I will be giving a presentation at the LA auto show, Design LA event with Scott Robertson and Harald Belker

10/7/06 to 11/15/06 Art of Digital Show in San Diego. Two of my pieces were selected as part of this group show.