Week 1 in Advanced Digital Painting

I know I've designed and redesigned AND redesigned this poor character's helmet, but I think Ive finally settled on a design. It's week 1 in advanced digital painting so the instructor is just looking to assess our abilities at this point, but I'm pretty happy with how it came out and look forward to learning more and getting better! As for the design, my intention is for the shield over his face to open revealing a glass cover... as I hope is obvious! It's going to be fun to model and rig!

Lighting and Rendering Final

This final really came together quickly. At first I wasn't feeling it but in the end I wish I'd been able to devote more time to it! I did get some good feedback though so maybe I'll keep on truckin' with it.

Here's an Ambient Occlusion pass of it. I just think these things look awesome!

TOP FUN!

It's been TOO LONG since I've posted anything... but while working on my finals I figured out how to render more efficiently with after effects so I rendered out my final from last term again.



Not SUPER proud of it, but it was a good learning experience and I had a lot of fun with it. Kinda got sick of the song... OH WAIT... NEVER THAT!

Alex as a creature!

We had to design creature makeup for Production Design 2 using photobashing techniques. Here's a creature I made out of my friend Alex.
His request was that I make him into something real cute. He was a little disappointed... but I dunno... kinda cute!

Production Design: Heroes

Just finished this up today. We're doing the villains next. Diggin this technique though!

5 NEW POSTS...

And no one will ever know!

Just a little homage to those hilarious Rage Threads! So fun!

Digital Paint Day With Alex

So I turned my buddy Alex, fine artist extraordinaire, onto digital painting with Corel Painter recently, and wouldn't you know it, the man swallowed his pride and admitted it RULES! The first is a portrait of me by him and then a portrait of him by me.

Gnomon: End of Term 2, Part 3: Triple Header

AND FINALLY, here's the final I turned in for Poly 1, Texture II, and 2D Textures for 3D Art. It's the same plane design from the Surface final modeled in Polys and one of the blimp hangars in Tustin, CA. I'm really happy with how it came out! I'm really getting the hang of this stuff!

Gnomon: End of Term 2, Part 1: My homie Mahoney

Here (all out of order... thanks for the tiny compose window you can't do ANYTHING in, Blogger) are a few of the drawings I did this term at Gnomon in Production Design 1 with the infamous John Mahoney. The color one is my final.

WATCHCATS

CHARSCHACH and NOSE OWL II

Sometimes boredom and Photoshop DO mix.

SUPE'S ON!

Been kinda frustrated with art stuff lately so I decided to do a little digital painting since it's been a while.

Sure it's not too complicated but I had fun with it.

Keeping up with learning ZBrush too but I don't have any finished work that's blog-worthy...  soon I hope.  At any rate it's an incredible program and I'm really enjoying it.

Still looking for work...  but it's a brand new year.  In the meantime I have to STEP MY GAME UP!  FINISH SOME WORK!  I'll be around.  Enjoy Supes!

Commission Successful!

So I shipped out my commissioned piece today.  The board warped a little with the watercolor so the lines aren't totally straight in the picture but here it is anyway.

Here are close-ups of the side panels.

Overall this has been an awesome experience, and I'm pretty happy with how it all turned out!  Meanwhile I've been working hard learning ZBrush and sketching quite a bit.  I'll hopefully be posting some images of some models soon!

DAY 3ish

So this is my progress so far.  I've been working on it little by little when I can find time.  The inking took WAY longer than I had initially anticipated.  I guess working at such a large format will do that (and dry up pens!).  The watercolor, on the other hand went rather quickly.  I had some problems with color...  I think the car is less white than I'd like and more baby-blue.  I think the red came out pretty well though.  Anyway this is only part of the piece.  There will be smaller panels on the right side that will feature different parts of the car and a close-up of the boy, who incidentally looks like THIS!

So adorable!

Speed Racer Inspired Commission

So good news!  A wonderful couple out in Florida stumbled across my blog searching for Speed Racer images and have decided to commission a Speed Racer inspired piece  for their son's room.  

Anyway, it's day one and I've sketched out what will be my Mach 5 knock-off.  Also pictured is my trusty sketchbook and some thumbnails.  The finished piece will include the car as a centerpiece and 4 panels to the side depicting other aspects of the race and a close-up shot of the boy.

I actually took quite a few cues from a 70's Hot Wheel car called "Second Wind."  Apparently Mattel was interested in releasing a Mach 5 at the height of the Speed Racer cartoon's popularity but couldn't secure the rights.  They re-released the car in 1997 (pictured below).  The Mach 5 stylings are clear.

All in all I'm pretty happy and excited about everything so far.  More updates will be coming!

HALLOWEEEEN part 2. & Brer Fox

GO SPEED GO!  I love it.  Here's a sketch I did today...  it's KIND OF a throwback to A.B. Frost...  yeah I'm still obsessed with Song of the South...  or maybe just Brer Fox.

"You all dressed up for dinnah!  For MY dinnah!  Cause I'm 'bout to bobbycue you up this very minute!  On dat fire!"

Gotta love how such a cute and charming character can become so sinister...  what a film!