Monday, January 28, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
F4:2 and Aerial Perspective
It's been made public on Variety, so i guess its safe to say the Writer's strike has delayed further pre-production on the Justice League movie (i was working on it as a concept artist/illustrator) until later in the year:-(
Artwork wise, here's the Empire magazine cover that i did for Weta last year, for the F4:2 Silver Surfer movie. It was done in a very short timeframe (haw - but aren't they all!) and i was given a very open brief. i provided several different concepts (the surfer in orbit around the Earth, above New York, coming out of a Nebulae in space, and surfing an asteroid field) with different poses in the form of very rough sketches --
-- and this is the one they went for. i painted over a 3d block model which was done before the final look of the 'silver skin' shaders had been completed and approved, so there was alot of painting involved to get this to print quality.
Tutorial wise, i'm not doing anything at the moment for Painter Magazine, but i did do this 'Defining Aerial Perspective' tutorial for ImagineFX magazine (it was out on the stands late last year):
And ImagineFX.com recently asked for contributions to their upcoming Frank Frazetta special issue, so i made a few revisions to this old Conan Frazetta homage and it was accepted. Yah for me, right?
Another Autumn Iga...
Artwork wise, here's the Empire magazine cover that i did for Weta last year, for the F4:2 Silver Surfer movie. It was done in a very short timeframe (haw - but aren't they all!) and i was given a very open brief. i provided several different concepts (the surfer in orbit around the Earth, above New York, coming out of a Nebulae in space, and surfing an asteroid field) with different poses in the form of very rough sketches --
-- and this is the one they went for. i painted over a 3d block model which was done before the final look of the 'silver skin' shaders had been completed and approved, so there was alot of painting involved to get this to print quality.
Tutorial wise, i'm not doing anything at the moment for Painter Magazine, but i did do this 'Defining Aerial Perspective' tutorial for ImagineFX magazine (it was out on the stands late last year):
And ImagineFX.com recently asked for contributions to their upcoming Frank Frazetta special issue, so i made a few revisions to this old Conan Frazetta homage and it was accepted. Yah for me, right?
Another Autumn Iga...
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Bits and pieces
Making sure i keep posting regularly --
Just a reminder that Issue 09 of the Corel Painter mag just hit newstands here in Australia (i think we're a couple issues behind it seems because Issue 12 has just been released on the Painter website), and its got my retro space battle tutorial in it (keen eyes can spot it middle right on the cover).
and here's a few illustrations i did from an older QandA section, one about painting effective explosions --
-- and the other discussing different colours schemes for horror images.
I'm still looking at options for prints of some of the portratis and figurative studies i've done, but in the meantime i've reworked a few of them and i think they're almost ready:-)
Just a reminder that Issue 09 of the Corel Painter mag just hit newstands here in Australia (i think we're a couple issues behind it seems because Issue 12 has just been released on the Painter website), and its got my retro space battle tutorial in it (keen eyes can spot it middle right on the cover).
and here's a few illustrations i did from an older QandA section, one about painting effective explosions --
-- and the other discussing different colours schemes for horror images.
I'm still looking at options for prints of some of the portratis and figurative studies i've done, but in the meantime i've reworked a few of them and i think they're almost ready:-)
Friday, January 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Autumn Iga
Autumn Iga
a series i did for the drawingboard, based on a model from the UK whom i've fallen in love with.
painting 1
painting 2
painting 3
a series i did for the drawingboard, based on a model from the UK whom i've fallen in love with.
painting 1
painting 2
painting 3
Various work
here's lots of work to make up for the last 3 months (i hope). if you like what you see, feel free to drop me an email or leave a comment, so i can guage what people like:-)
Tomb of Dracula homage
here's my homage to Wolfman, Colan and Palmer's run on The Tomb of Dracula, which was a long running Marvel comic series printed in the 70's. i based the face on Jack Palance, which is the actor that Gene based his Dracula on:-)
Supergirl taking a sun shower
just for fun really.
Misc blonde
chanelling Elvgren, Mcginnis, Buell. they were the masters:-)
Airwick 3d tv styleframe
did this for a con-production between Halo Pics and Emerald City. they were having trouble getting the look they wanted, so Chris Hague (who's a top bloke and did the character drawings) called me in to see if i could crack the code. they were pretty happy with the work, but in the end the tvc suffered due to budget and time constraints. isn't that always the case though?
The Black Coat #7 back cover sketch
here's the approved sketch i sent to Ben and Francesco, but due to other work commitments they're both commited to, the last two issues are delayed til later in the year. i look forward to tackling this one because i'm happy with the way the sketch turned out.
Borderlands trailer
I recently worked on a shot for the Borderlands video game trailer (http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/home.htm), which looks like a really cool game. i only did one shot, but it was alot of fun:
i'll be doing more video game work later in the year, so stay tuned gamers!
Tomb of Dracula homage
here's my homage to Wolfman, Colan and Palmer's run on The Tomb of Dracula, which was a long running Marvel comic series printed in the 70's. i based the face on Jack Palance, which is the actor that Gene based his Dracula on:-)
Supergirl taking a sun shower
just for fun really.
Misc blonde
chanelling Elvgren, Mcginnis, Buell. they were the masters:-)
Airwick 3d tv styleframe
did this for a con-production between Halo Pics and Emerald City. they were having trouble getting the look they wanted, so Chris Hague (who's a top bloke and did the character drawings) called me in to see if i could crack the code. they were pretty happy with the work, but in the end the tvc suffered due to budget and time constraints. isn't that always the case though?
The Black Coat #7 back cover sketch
here's the approved sketch i sent to Ben and Francesco, but due to other work commitments they're both commited to, the last two issues are delayed til later in the year. i look forward to tackling this one because i'm happy with the way the sketch turned out.
Borderlands trailer
I recently worked on a shot for the Borderlands video game trailer (http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/home.htm), which looks like a really cool game. i only did one shot, but it was alot of fun:
i'll be doing more video game work later in the year, so stay tuned gamers!
Happy New Year!
Happy New year to everybody! Big apologies for the severe lack of updates over the last few months! i've been busy working on a very exciting project as a production illustrator. what project is that you ask? well, i'm...
yes, very exciting indeed. i can't say anything about the flick, but i can say i am working with some very talented people like Owen Patterson (the production designer on The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer) and other artists like George Hull (http://www.ghull.com/news/news_main.php), Steve Skroce and some of the key team who worked on Happy Feet.
ok, enough name dropping for now. whew!
yes, very exciting indeed. i can't say anything about the flick, but i can say i am working with some very talented people like Owen Patterson (the production designer on The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer) and other artists like George Hull (http://www.ghull.com/news/news_main.php), Steve Skroce and some of the key team who worked on Happy Feet.
ok, enough name dropping for now. whew!
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