Tim Wood creates.
He creates art.
He creates films.
He creates websites.
He started by drawing. He drew with pencils, pens, and crayons. One day, his father showed him the Palm Graffiti application. You could say this started his fascination with the digital art medium, but the fascination really started with a Gateway Computer + Windows 95 + Microsoft Paint.
Pixel by pixel he would create cartoon characters and buildings and spaceships. When he was 13, he discovered HTML. He started building mini-sites with Paint and Notepad. A few years later, he saved up money from working at a restaurant and bought a $100 copy of Sony Vegas. He started making short films with his friends and editing them and holding premiers in his basement.
Tim went to college to study film and bought a student copy of Macromedia Flash to create animations. He started developing web applications and games with Actionscript. During his time at college, he started to build a website to showcase his art and design work. The site was washwithcare.com, named after an idea for a tattoo on the back of the neck that looked like a clothing tag.
While in school, Tim grew bored of taking classes. He wanted to learn from experience, not from textbooks. Around the same time, he met a girl. Her name is Sheli. Tim and Sheli dropped out of school and got married. Tim got a job as a full-time cook to support the two of them, and Sheli decided to finish the year and a half of classes to earn her BA.
While Tim was working as a cook, he was spending nights and weekends writing films and learning more about web programming. He grew tired of rewriting code every time he wanted to change design styles, and researched reusable code. He learned two languages from this, PHP and CSS.
When Sheli finished school, the two of them packed up their apartment, hopped in their banged up '95 Mitsubishi Mirage, and drove from Chicago to Los Angeles. They stayed with Sheli's aunt for a couple weeks until they found an apartment.
Since arriving in LA, Tim has thrown himself into web design, motion graphic design, and film writing/editing. He got involved in the Mosaic artist + filmmaker community.
Tim is currently a freelance web designer/programmer, motion graphics artist, and filmmaker.
