The artist's career began in the auto, electronics and steel industries at Ford Motor Co., Sony, U.S. Steel and Phillips Electronics. Then he moved on to help create movies, working as a production illustrator working with director Robert Wise on Earth’s nemesis V’Ger in the 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

In 1982, he worked as an artist on Blade Runner and joined director Steven Lisberger to work on Tron.