Career
Pugh has explored many artistic themes including environmental-human entropy, bioengineering, advanced concept transportation, and evolutionary nanotechnology. Pugh’s first solo publication,, presents a collection of digital life paintings developed in a novel approach to traditional representational art Painting from life, Pugh"s canvas is the laptop computer screen and his palette is the multitude of colors available to the digital artist.
Traveling from his home in California to rural New England, Europe, and South America, he has painted a variety of images that capture the light and emotion of the scenes.
Foreign aspiring digital painters, the book contains instruction on the process used to create the images in the work. Foreign the past two years, Pugh has taught design courses at Art Center College of Design, including Originality in Design and Digital Rendering.
In addition, Pugh is the creator of a series created with the on the topics of creature design illustration, environment rendering, and originality in design. Pugh is also the creator of the, a fully functioning, 500 horsepower, natural gas-fueled concept car.
The design of is raw and skeletal, but it is largely gold plated removing it from being either being a racecar or a luxury car.
The project is the subject of the book by Mark Christensen titled Build The Perfect Beast, published in 2001 by Thomas Dunne. The entire project was profiled in 2002 by Carolina Design News. During the project, Pugh co-founded an alternative-fuel transportation company called NGV-United States of America to do research in the field of automotive engineering.
A prototype of the chassis was installed into a customized Dodge Ram Van called the "Long Ranger." This van was used by Cal Start and other governmental organizations to promote alternative-fuel vehicles.
In addition to, Pugh"s work is featured in both releases in the Design Studio Press series Concept Design, with his work featured on the cover of Concept Design 2. Since 1997, Pugh has been the lead concept artist for visual effects studio Rhythm and Hues.
His recent film projects include The Chronicles of Narnia, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Serenity, Oblivion, and Superman Returns.
