Geoff’s artistic skills range from traditional painting and sculpting to computer-based modeling and illustration. He previously worked at Propaganda Games on the title Tron: Evolution. He has also done concept art for the redesign of the stadium for the Vancouver Canucks hockey franchise. Additionally, Geoff’s diverse... career as a freelance artist has led him to work in fields including clothing design, editorial illustration and vinyl toy design. He is also the author of the book “How to Draw and Paint: Science Fiction” for Barron’s publishing.

Geoff has also been an experienced photoshop and matte painting instructor at the Vancouver Institute of Media arts.

Now he will be our online instructor at the Rydan Workshop. Here is a little Course Overview: Students will undergo a 8 week process to create a high quality environmental production sketch/ 2d matte painting. Students will be provided with weekly feedback and demonstrations of each stage of production- starting with reference gathering and basic thumbnail sketches, and building towards a highly detailed photo realistic visualization of their concept.