Here are a collection of images from my obsessive space phase. These were all created from scratch in Photoshop using only built in Photoshop filters and effects.

Here are some more web icons I created during my time working for National Defense as a Webmaster.

Designed these two logos as a Graphic Design assignment during my studies at Carleton University. The idea was to use a technique called negative space to represent one of the two letters.

After reading a couple tutorials online I discovered how easy it is to make a gas planet from scratch.

• Start with a large blank canvas in Photoshop.
• Using the built in Photoshop grass brush, turn on some brush dynamics settings including color dynamics.
• Paint different colors using the grass brush all over the canvas.
• Combine these layers and use the motion blur filter at %100.
• Now use the liquify filter to smudge the paths of color to create a gas effect similar to that of Jupiter.
• Finally, use the spherize filter to obtain a planet shape. Crop a circular area and place this layer on a star background.

Testing with ocean shaders in Maya to create a cell membrane effect. This is very easy to create:

• Build a number of sphere’s within each other.
• Apply the default Maya ocean shader.
• Set desired color and transparency for each sphere.
• Important! Change the ‘wave size’ ocean shader property to create different animated effects for the texture of each sphere.
• Add the glow effect to one or all of the spheres.
• Use Mental Ray to render. Note, turn on reflections and final gather!