3DTotal - What do you think has been your biggest achievement or proudest moment in the film industry so far?
Miles - I suppose that most of the projects I worked on under Rob Bottin are my favorites, Legend and Robocop being the best. Rob was a maniac, but he understood the design process, was never satisfied until he got something that had never been done before. He was also the last of a kind in that he actually fought the producers and directors to deliver something fantastic despite them.
3DTotal - What advice would you give to future wanna be designers out there?
Miles - Purchase a revolver and just one bullet. No. I would say to them to stop looking at comic books and other contemporary artists. All that stuff looks the same. Reach back into history for your artistic influences and into other fields of creative endeavor and your work will become fresh. I would also tell them to study nature. Regarding this business I would tell them that it is glutted, saturated, so overly full of eager young designers that there is just not enough work going around. They are entering a field that is overcrowded at this point. There, does that sound happy?

3DTotal - What have been your major influences over the years?
Miles - Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Ron Cobb, Richard Corben, Basil Wolverton, Frazetta, the Wyeths, Alan Lee, Ridley Scott, Kurosawa, Terence Mckenna and many, many others to numerous to mention.
3DTotal - To wrap things up could you tell me what would be your most coveted project ever to recreate or work on?
Miles - There is an old Illustrated novel created by Jan Strnad and Richard Corben that I think would make a fantastic film, but I dare not think about it yet…….