Meats Meier is a freelance illustrator and animator living in Los Angeles, California.  An award-winning digital artist, Meier works in both 2D and 3D  using Maya and Zbrush for modeling and animation as well as Photoshop and After Effects to composite the images into animations and high resolution artwork.

Meier’s feature film credits include “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” and “Hellboy” as a technical director and compositer. He has also worked as an airbrush artist and lead artist at the video game studio Beyond Games.

Meier’s artwork is on the cover of numerous books, magazines, and web sites and he was honored with the prestigious “Maya Master” title by Alias at SIGGRAPH  in 2003.  In 2006, he helped with the stereoscopic graphics for the cover of the TOOL album “10,000 Days” and continues to work with them on their live touring concerts.

Meier taught the first ever ZBrush course at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, and is the author of the very popular “Introduction to ZBrush” training DVD produced by the Gnomon Workshop.

To see more of Meats Meier’s work, visit 3DArtSpace.com.