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 Dynamic's Akuji the Heartless Playstation game;
and a
'film noir' comic book for the I.T. consulting
firm Xpedior.
His
current project, (with writer Cary Bates) SAURHEADS, is an original
animated series featuring dark humor with dinosaurs.
Visit
the SAURHEADS 'beta' site at http://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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