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Bio

I grew up in San Diego, California where I learned to draw at a young age. I decided to pursue a career in animation and went to Academy of Art University for a major in animation & VFX. This led me to enter video game companies working primarily as a texture artist for game environments.

After working on 6 shipped titles, I pursued an MBA at UCSD Rady School of Management and graduated in June 2019. Here, I found a fun community of engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs who I collaborate with, and it’s been an exciting period of fresh, new ideas. By 2021, I acquired more clients in biotech, creating 3D models, product design, and animation, and started Black Horse Animation & Design, LLC., now located at 600 Bst, Suite 300, San Diego, CA 92101. The mission is to bring great visuals to science and make useful 3D simulations for training in medical procedures. I’ve wanted to abolish the starving artist since I was a kid, and this is my way of doing that.

Every art has its time. Our work is the bi-product of our lives and they reflect the state of the world we're in. As we are with our past, the future will know what drove us to do what we did. This site is the archive of my work, welcome to HalleckArts.

 

 

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“Never forget where you came from.” - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

“Never forget where you came from.” - Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

 

I was 14 years old in this picture, trained weekly with Herong Zhang throughout my childhood and built my foundations with him. Now I teach at the school that Herong helped start: US Arts Education Center in San Diego… He currently lives in Tsingtao where the beer is made :)

 

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