Hello. Thanks for stopping by my site. My name is Brian Garrigan. I'm an artist who lives and works in New York City. I've lived here for over sixteen years, ever since I went to art school in Greenwich Village. There I attended Parsons School of Design and earned a B.F.A. in Illustration.

If you'd like to know more about New York City you can check out the page I set up called, oddly enough, New York. There you can hear the first hand opinions of what life is like in the Big Apple from someone who lives here.

Since graduating from Parsons I've been working frantically as a creative professional. The first big break I got was at the Associated Press. There I was hired as a news artist. My main function was creating info-graphics for newspaper articles under extremely tight deadlines. The reason this was such a big break is because they were experimenting, at the time, with creating graphics on a MacPlus. I had never touched a computer before in my life but I could draw, so they put me alone in a room with one for several hours a day to see if I could figure it out. As it turns out it wasn't all that difficult and that early foray with computer graphics lead me on an upward climb to where I am today. A full fledged 3D artist.

Doing 3D work is my main passion. Mainly because it calls on all your skills as a creative artist to bring anything to life using 3D software. You have to have a fairly good grasp of many different mediums to make it work, drawing being the most important. Painting, sculpting, photography, lighting, graphic design and illustration are some but not all, of the others.

Currently, I am working on a short independent film that, when finished, will be about two minutes long. The majority of this project will be done in Alias Maya 3.0 on Unix and NT workstations. With any luck it will be completed in June of 2001. I hope to submit it to film festivals after that. Once it's finished I will post information on where to see it and how it was done.

Please visit my gallery page while you're here to see my stuff and feel free to send me E-mail.