Morgan Ogburn
www.themeparkstudios.com

Morgan Ogburn got his start in comics and was published by independents such as Blackbird Comics and Mojo Press. He branched into illustration, 3d animation and graphic design. He's worked in the video game industry, first as a conceptual artist, then a 3d artist using 3d applications such as Maya, LightWave, and Softimage XSI.

He has worked on staff as senior 3d artist and graphic designer as part of his company, ThemePark Studios. He also specializes is character modeling and is works as a digital sculpting consultant for a L.A. based animation studio.

Morgan owns ThemePark Studios, a marketing and visual communications company, with his wife Fiona Cherbak. ThemePark Studios provides creative and production services such as graphic design, computer animation and programming for video, the web, and multimedia CD. Some of ThemePark's clients include Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Activision, Origin Systems, and Mary-Margaret.com.

Morgan's upcoming comic, as writer and artist, is titled American Inferno.

American Inferno

American Inferno is the story of a man who must travel through the underworld of the American psyche and Haitian Vodou to solve the mystery of his wife’s murder.

It’s a horror comic.

Horror is a very broad category. I suppose if asked to give a more specific genre it would be something like a supernatural murder-mystery adventure story.

For American Inferno I’m working with an initiated Hougan (a priest of the Haitian religion) who's advising me on how to better represent Vodou religion and magic unbiased by 1940’s Hollywood, racism, and other misrepresentations and stereotypes. I have also spent time as a guest among Brooklyn's wonderful Haitian community.

Here’s an early creature concept sketch.

The Mosquito

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The Mosquito is a touching and horrific creation myth by a wonderful writer named Franz Henkel. Any shortcomings in the adaptation are purely my responsibility.

These images represent some of my early experiments working to find a flexible painting medium for illustration

 I started painting here using Alkyd paints on prepared Bristol board paper. I later found black and white ink to be a speedy alternative.

Someday I may paint again with the classic techinques, but digital tools have since replaced all brushes made with the hair of weasels, and CMYK and RGB have replaced tubes of colored paste.

The Real Thing

Weird Business cover by Dave Dorman
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I was working as a lead concept artist on a sci-fi game at a company called Origin Systems when I negotiated a month off between projects to paint this story.

The story’s main character, Sonja Blue, was created by writer Nancy Collins in her Sunglasses After Dark series of novels.

 The story was published as part of the Eisner-nominated anthology, Weird Business, edited by Joe Lansdale and Rick Klaw.

Weird Business was nominated for the 1996 Eisner Award for best anthology and the Rocky Mountain News called it, "Possibly the greatest comic ever." Tall words, I know.
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