The Art of Ryan Rey Tackett

This design was created while I served as webmaster of the Spartasoft Game Design club at Michigan State University. It was posted on the Retroduck website as the “Coolest Custom Job [They've] Ever Done.”

Live Music is an animated short from Mass Animation. They found animators through a facebook contest, and I was one of the lucky few to have their shots picked for inclusion in the film. I worked on character animation using Maya 2008 alongside animators from ReelFX.
Here’s the trailer for the animation, which was [...]

Hello again! I’d like to introduce a new webcomic that I’m starting with my buddy Justin. It’s called Double Clicked Comics, and well… its on the web! Thanks for checking it out– DoubleClickedComics.com!

Undercover UXO is an educational game I worked on while at MSU for the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation. My role on the team was art direction, interface design and character design.
The goal of the game is to instruct young children in developing nations on proper landmine safety. For more Information on the games [...]

Here’s a photo I took a few years ago. It was featured in the 2006 Pingyao International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China.

Created in Maya 2008, Rendered in Maya 2009.

Here’s a dragon illustration done in Photoshop. Its probably my favorite of the stuff that I did right after getting my first tablet.