Richard was introduced to the world of mixed media by a group of artists
who'd been together since the 1940's. One of the group, the honorary leader
Mel Tanner, agreed to teach him the tools of performance mixed media... 
that was the beginning. 

Mixed media then mean overhead projectors, opaque projectors coherent light 
and then adding the "liquid effects" of the typical psychedelic light show of the sixties.

There were also a collection of specialty effects machines that provided a broader palette. 
Mel Tanner a mixed media genius, in conjunction with the other members 
of the Lumonics Group also created Plexiglas or "Lucite" sculptures.

These sculptures, transparent and opaque and translucent, cubes, spheres, cones, 
pyramids; pulsed to the music.  Richard then joined the planetarium media staff at 
the Buehler Planetarium at Broward Community College, joining the performing 
Light Art group, "I See The Light, Show". Richard then moved to the Miami Space
Transit Planetarium as a multimedia artist and planetarium "Star Machine" operator. 

It was then time to "hit the light show road" first with Kenvin Lyman, who had earned
a "Doctor of Lumia" at the Sorbonne. His Dazzleland Studios had produced the famous
 "Tunnel Effect" in the film "2001 a Space Odessey". Kenvin had done his doctorate 
on the history of multimedia arts and had traced the "Light Show" back to performances
 in Mozart's time when artists combined fabric, lenses and candles to create fields of 
dancing color and shape. 

Hired as a Laser Artist by Laser Images, of Van Nuys, and then Chief Artist and 
Technical Producer with Laser Productions of Miami. Richard learned programming 
on the primitive early first generations of computers, designing Laser Light Effects. 

Later working with early Atari and Amiga graphics he produced early commercial 
graphics in basic and machine language. After producing an Animation for "Club Nu" 
an early night spot on South Beach, Richard was hired to teach visualization graphics
 technology to architects and engineers. 

Utilizing the first generation of image editing and photo touch-up Re-purposing the 
same graphics and multimedia skills Richard was hired by Post Buckley Schuh 
and Jernigan to manage the CADD Laboratory and work as CADD Manager 
for an office of Engineers and Architects. Richard wrote software to animate the 
engineering files for animated presentations. And was asked to undertake a 
complex 3D modeling project to allow Engineers at the State Highway department 
to examine alternative tunneling technology. Specialized 3D animation software
 is required to produce precision 3D CADD Engineering graphics using 
Intergraph CADD files. 

These animations were required to be accurate to a legal tolerance and were 
produced to 16 decimal points of precision. Another of the challenging projects 
undertaken was  to build a database and the supporting graphic documentation
 for a study of every Traffic Accident in Monroe County, Florida over a 5 year 
period, against 7 criteria. 

These materials, when sent to the Florida Legislature achieved the project goal 
of funding a major highway improvement project. Bermello, Ajamil and Partners 
asked Richard to develop a multimedia studio to utilize "State of the Art" 
technology for marketing and quantitative analysis. 

Richard also provided the research to undertake a Simulation Studies Modeling 
Lab to provide the Engineering and Planning department "with precise quantitative 
simulations" for a variety of architectural, engineering and planning environments. 

A range of clients have since utilized the staff of Imagineering Productions, Inc.
.to create and inform using the latest techniques in Visualization, Simulation and 
Presentation technology.