night and day

These two pieces were really quick color treatment sketches I did for a friend's film. There's a good chance I'll end up doing matte paintings for it and it will probably be something similar to this, expanding a world just beyond a doorway or something. It's got a nice old world Middle Eastern feel. 

More work to come as I'm to be finishing up the semester at school this week...

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111911_New work for Simutronics

So now I have a bit more things to share. Here is a bit of the work I did during the summer for Simutronics Corporation, video game developer a video game developer based near St.Louis.
It was a lot of fun interning with them over the summer while they were still developing their most recent title Tiny Heroes which, as I understand, is an excellent tower defense game. I didn't get to contribute to that my work was working on promotional illustrations in some of their online RPG titles like Dragon Realms and Gemstone IV. It was a blast working with the artists there and I hope this work shows it!

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111511_wip_animation_project

I've started collaborating with my friend Stephen of the Robo-san project from last year on a new fun side project involving children with super powers. The result is really fun and silly, and I'm learning to model in Maya as a part of it, which is a big plus for me. As time goes on with the project you'll be seeing some maya renders and hopefully some zbrush stuff as well! 

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110611_stripes

I was feeling really down that I hadn't put a decent amount of time/finesse into a piece in a while and then I decided to look at Illustration Friday for some inspiration and I saw the theme "stripes."

I've been aching to do more digital painting lately as well so this seemed like a good opportunity to work on painting flesh.

I started with the usual thumbnails and tried some other ideas but ended up liking none of them very much except for the ones with the girl. I guess I wanted to do something pseudo-pinupy anyways. Also, here's a full resolution crop so you can see a bit more detail.

110511_sketches

I...did these.

030211_color_fun

Playing around with some colors I've been using lately plus some really neat photos of ice. Lots of subtle stuff that I only wish I was capturing here...

45 min in painter before going back to painting Robo-san scenes...

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022511_ speedie

Just a little doodle. 30 minutes I think? I wasn't counting this time. I wanted a break from the usual and I haven't really tried speed painting in a long time. I feel like...I understand it's use now. Anyways, more to come, I guess.
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021111_Accomplishment

Rather miraculously, Ben, Stephen and I made our KickStarter goal in 3 days, about 57 less than we expected to accomplish that feat. Our project was even made Project of the Day on the Kickstarter homepage! It was a pretty spectacular moment in our short project's history, but made us all very proud and grateful. So here we are.
This is one of t the cards we printed on Wednesday to match the Robo-san one as a way of creating interest in our project around campus. It was typical meishi (business card in Japanese) size, and had our blog info on the back side of it. Oh, by the way Wan-chan is saying "wan wan" which is a Japanese onomatopoeia for the way a dog "speaks." Essentially, "wan wan" instead of "woof woof." I hope you all learned something today!

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020811_KICKSTARTER

Hey everybody! So the Robo-san and Wan-chan animated short film is still trucking a long and we're making great progress with it every day. We'd really love to send the film to different animation festivals and film festivals when we finish it, as well as produce an art book for it, but we need YOUR help!

Check out our Kickstarter page below and you can watch a video about what we're doing and how we're doing it and then you join the fight to share Robo-san, and get cool stuff in return!
Thanks for reading and for your support!


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020411 ending shot color key

Color key for the end shot! Super-colorful since it's some kind of emotional climax in the movie. It's a challenge to learn how to use colors this vibrant and bold. Don't think I captured the distance quite as well as I could but that's something that I'll mess with when I go to final. The extreme verticality of this color key is so that we can make the shot scroll upwards so that the short ends where it began, in the stars.
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