Mike Miller

raytraced art

Biographical notes
Mike Miller lives in Columbus, Ohio, is married with three chidren. He attended design college in Columbus for two years, then studied fine art and illustration at Ohio State. Owned and operated a printing business near Philadelphia for ten years. Now is a free-lance computer artist operating Head Spin Studio, which, among other work, produces book and magazine covers for such publishers as Prentice-Hall, Waite Group, Cybex. Has always enjoyed children's and surrealistic art, and tries to bring an element of fantasy to photorealism. He programs much of his his own software.

Commentary
Among raytrace artists, Miller's work is almost legendary for its precision, intricate detail and technical mastery. Miller's approach is hardly intuitive; it is painstakingly methodical. Miller may even work from a physical model dismantling it into parts, then draft the parts to scale on paper before reducing them to raytrace files. But all of this may be a bit misleading, for there is also a wild, incomprehensible side to Miller's work: serpents at school, fish in a railroad station, dragons, a jack-in-the-box to frighten rather than to entertain. Miller's trademark skills are harnessed to a fierce and fantastic imagination.

Dorm2
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Jack6
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Dump1
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St3a
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Drag7
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