 His first book cover assignment was with Bantam Books in 1984, under the art direction of Jerry Counihan., for the book "The Walking Drum" by Louis L'Amour

In 1994 Hunt was commissioned by Steven Spielberg to create the DreamWorks logo.Spielberg originally imagined a CGI generated image of a man fishing from the moon.On the recommendation of Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Dennis Muren that the image instead be an original painting, Hunt was called in to execute the final image on which the motion version was based.