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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