The eye underneath everything else — RISD-trained drawing, painting, and mural work that predates and informs the technology.
Hire for Original art direction and illustration, hand-made.
An eight-year gigapixel capture project across Tibet's most remote regions with art historian Thomas Laird, preserving ancient Buddhist temple murals at ultra-high resolution — published as a SUMO-edition book by TASCHEN in 2018.
Flash-built promotional website for the Universal Studios feature (released June 2004) — built using the Flash skill from Stickyflick Studio, Gavin's first medium jump from fine art into interactive/animated web work.
Source material for the About page, not a standalone case study (per positioning decision, 2026-07-14). Apprenticed under muralist Kent Twitchell at LACHSA, then again during a two-year leave from RISD in the early 1990s — three named, independently verified murals.