He created art for the award winning[1] Star Control II as well as providing the voice for one of the character races, the Chmmr, in the same game.
[3] After leaving the company, he studied painting at UC Berkeley and also took classes at the Academy of Art in San Francisco.
[4] He has cited a wide range of influences on his work from Dr. Seuss and Frank Frazetta to modern artists such as Joan Miró, Willem de Kooning and Wassily Kandinsky.
Erol Otus was a prolific contributor to the early Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) franchise, creating full covers as well as many interior illustrations for TSR materials.
According to fellow contributor Jeff Dee, many of the original versions of this work were lost during a later clean-out of the TSR offices.