Back from Seattle

Hey all,

I'm finally back from Seattle. We had an awesome time and we are planning on heading back up there this January because I got a JOB. I will be working for the empire for the next who knows how many years, and I couldn't be happier. My wife loved it, my daughters loved it, I loved it.

On a work related note. Im still clearing up whether or not I can post my work we did on the game over the summer, so when I get that resolved, I'll post some cool stuff up here. In the meantime, here are some pages out of my sketchbook. These are mainly just for fun or to get my mind off of things. I am really growing to enjoy drawing. I dont just stress out about how bad my stuff is anymore, I just play. I still think and design and rehash the drawing, but I enjoy it now. Yes I do.

MGS

Hey everyone,
Sorry for the long time in between posts! I have recently moved to Seattle to intern with Microsoft Games Studios! If you must know, I am an art intern with a group called the SEED team. Myself and a group of interns from around the country are building an XBLA game in 10 weeks. I do concept art, modeling, rigging, textures, animating, UI...basically everything that you will see in the game. I am one of two artists working on it, so needless to say building an entire game in 10 weeks is a pretty daunting task for us. The other artist working with me is also from BYU. His name is Andrew Young and he is awesome. This is where I will be for the summer, so most of what I am doing art-wise is un-postable. I will try and get some side project stuff on here in the meantime. Wish me luck!

Sketchy Sketch

Here are a few things out of my sketchbook because I haven't posted anything in forever. New stuff coming soon. Enjoy

Cliff

I tried to get some fun lighting effects out of this one. I'm pretty happy with it. This was done in Photoshop. Enjoy.

Moroni almost done

This is a project that I have been working on for way too long. Done in Photoshop. It has really been in the works for over a year. I have gone through about 3 redesigns and 2 repaints. I'm still not entirely pleased, but its getting there. Enjoy!

Done

Finally finished, This was done in maya, photoshop, and zbrush. it is running on an Xbox 360 in the octane engine. Enjoy

Stay on target

Almost there!












Only a few more changes and I am making a movie for you all.
Enjoy

Not Hitler

This is not hitler





















His name is Higgins, and he is a boxing referee. So stop asking...fine I'll fix it.
Enjoy

Progress

This here is a screen shot of the project I have been working through at work. It is far from finished but today is the first free time I have had a t work for months so I decided to dust it off and get to work. I might as well take advantage of the hardware while I'm still at Avalanche right?? Oh and more sketches and other updates to come. Enjoy.

Emulation round 2

This is my second attempt at emulating other professional artists. This first is from the man who was behind the art style of Lilo and Stitch, the talented Chris Sanders. I won't link this guy because a lot of what he draws is women in bikinis. HOWEVER, I found his style incredibly appealing and I was told I should give him a try by a few of my classmates, so I gave it a shot with the squirrel. Another artist that has influenced many throughout the years is CRMK (aka Bengus). He mainly did work for Capcom as one of their premiere artists for Street Fighter and Dark Stalkers. His stuff is fantastic but more hard to find than most. You can find his stuff easily in all the art of street fighter books...but you have to find them. Anyway, the girl is a fun rendition of my wife in her Street Fighter form. She has a robotic arm because she loves to pound things into oblivion...mainly my shoulder when I am giving her a hard time :) Enjoy!

Emulation

This was a really fun assignment. We were asked to emulate another artist and design a character using their style. This guy is an assassin in the early 1900's. As you can see his normal cover is a saloon pianist. The artist that I attempted to emulate is Maël Gourmelen. I found his stuff on the character design blog and I loved it. His use of the line of action is second to none. He really helped me with clothing wrinkles as well. I also admire is daring use of watercolors in his designs. He leaves alot of his designs in the rough pencil stage to paint up and it gives the character some fun texture. So yeah, like it or not here it is :) Enjoy.

Animals take 2

This post comes to you from the exotic land of Alabama. I traveled without my trusty tablet so I had to resort to the unforgiving media of watercolor. This ifs for the second round of animals in my character design class. The Monkey has been raised by a street gang to do their dirty work. The goat wants to join the circus but the wont except her because she isn't a cool enough animal. The Badger has IBS when he eats meat so he can only eat veggies and he is very upset about it. That's the run down. Enjoy!

Hero 2 and Animals!

Hey all, I have been crazy busy lately...seems to be a trend. Anyway here are the last couple bits of design and drawing I've been doing. The first is a redesign of my stereotypical hero. I tried to steer away from my typical style and emulate a graphic novel called "Lucha Libre" The artist who draws this style is called "Bill". The next couple are some animal designs for my character design class. I had a lot of fun with these. Anyway, all of these were colored with Photoshop. Enjoy.

One day, one very busy day

I finished three pieces today. Well mostly finished. It was a rough one but I got em done. I'm sure they all need a little tweaking, but this is the result of deciding to color these before I turned them in the next day. Enjoy.

Stereotypical hero:



















Non-Stereotypical Hero:



















Stereotypical Heroine:

Non stereotypical?

Yeah this was a fun dive into another art style. Let me know what you think :) She is a non-stereotypical heroine for my character design class. Enjoy!

Me?!

Check this out, Claire pointed this out for me the other day. Who does that look like? Oh yeah its totally me! By no means did I have any part of creating this model. It is the main character from the upcoming movie called Planet 51. Look it up. I smell a new avatar coming.

Muscles, I draws dem

Here are two Stereotypical characters for my character design class. Hero and Heroine, simple enough. I will shade these guys up and probably eventually paint them, we'll see when that happens. Done with Prismacolor pencils and ink. Enjoy.


Hero:




















Heroine:

Steamfish

This is the midterm for Joe Olson's Drawing for animation class. We had to take our toy assignment and turn it into something better. The theme was Steampunk + Vegetables. This is what I came up with. This is done with Prismacolor pencils, inks, marker and my new favorite thanks to Tyson Murphy...WATERCOLORS! :)



















I also cheated with photoshop for this final look.

















Enjoy!

Happy Halloween

My wife, daughter and I decided to do a little pumpkin carving on sunday night and I wanted to do something different this year. So instead of carving one in the old fashion way, I decided to get a little crazy. Check it out.






































































Yeah, I consider this an epic fail but I had a lot of fun learning how pumpkin reacts to carving. I see why more people don't do this. It is supposed to be the floating zombie spaceman head from a couple posts back. It was a fun learning experience, but now back to the real work. Enjoy.

Sketchdump!

I found a bunch of stuff that I never posted in my old sketchbook. This stuff reaches back about months. Wow, I need to stay on top of things more. Enjoy!