JOSEPH BARNEY
Joseph Barney began
his career as an illustrator at Continuity Associates in New York,
the commercial art studio commandeered by comics legend Neal Adams.
He also worked on Madison Avenue, turning out hundreds of storyboards
and 'animatics' for TV commercials. He free-lanced as a comic
book penciller as well, working on such famous Marvel Comics characters
as The
Hulk,
Thor, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four.
In
the nineties Joe moved west to work in the burgeoning multimedia
arena. Among his most recent projects: character design for Broderbund
software's Carmen Sandeigo nemesis Chase Devineaux; animation artwork for the CD-ROM games
Mysterious Island and Marty the Mouse for Elliot-Portwood Productions;
a web adventure comic series for Eplay, an educational
children's web site; production paintings and storyboards for
the CGI 'cinematics' of Crystal Dynamics' Akuji the Heartless Playstation game;
and a
'film noir' comic book for the I.T. consulting
firm Xpedior.
Joe
is also an instructor in comic book illustration at the Academy
of Art in San Francisco.
His current project,
(with writer Cary Bates) SAURHEADS, is an original animated series
featuring dark humor with dinosaurs, slated to debut on the web
in early 2001.
Visit the SAURHEADS
'beta' site at http://www.saurheads.com
. There you'll see comic strips, character sculptures, and
animations created by Joe.for this up and coming all-ages new
series with a whole new twist (and twistednesss) on the ancient
word of the monstrous reptiles.
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