Sir Impy of Domfurgherhavenshire.

I LIVE.  Its been like a year.  Apologies...

So anyway.

I promise I actually HAVE been arting.  I'm currently plugging away on a few projects at Microsoft studios, but here is a piece that I have been working on for a few weeks on and off.  I really had a lot of fun with this guy.  My plan is to take him all the way through the 3D Process as well.

Wish me luck.

A Little Zbrush

I played with some zbrush today. I always seem to make old, beat up dudes when my mind is free...their faces are so awesome.




Enjoy.

Family

This is mine :) They are awesome. Even the little bald one.

Edit: I changed Abby up a bit :) Enjoy the new version.

Thor

This Friday baby! One step closer to The Avengers. I hope it is as good as the reviews say it is.
Enjoy.

Portal 2

Yeah I am a huge fan of Portal. The amount of time put into the writing and voice acting alone would make the game for me, even if it wasn't incredibly fun. I frequently find myself trying to beat the level just to see what will be said next. That says a lot about writing in video games to me :) If you haven't played Portal, shame on you. Repent and go treat yourself to one of the better games of our generation.

This is some fan art that I whipped up today.
Enjoy.

Microsoft and a Bieber

I apologize for my long absence. If anyone still follows this blog :) I have been working for Microsoft Games again as a full time employee since January, and it has been awesome. I am currently working on an XBox live title and a mobile title as well. Very cool, they will be coming out soon, I'll let you know when to go buy them ;)
Life has been crazy, moving a family and starting everything up again. Quite the challenge I might say. I think we are a little more established now, so hopefully I will be posting a bit more regularly.

Here are a few pieces I have been working on for fun in the down time. Both will be auctioned off for a local charity event.

The wolverine was a quick fun project because I really couldn't get myself to paint otherwise. Still getting back into painting, this is great therapy :)




This one is for the tweens, my wife thinks I'm making fun of him. I might be...


More to come, enjoy!

Another one down

I finished up another sketchbook and decided to start in a moleskine again. Hence the yellow paper. I am also continuing work on the Pre-Dominance war competition with the pic at the bottom. I'm loving the use of 3d coat and photoshop together. Pretty sweet stuff. Enjoy!

Pre-Dominance war

Well this is a little different of me, but I am entering an online competition type thingy called the Pre-dominance war. You go out and make a 3d character that fit certain criteria. This is my quick sketch concept for the character I am thinking of doing. The criteria: 3000 tris, no normal or bump maps, and it has to be done on the 6th of December. Here we goooooo!

Sketchybook stuff

This is stuff that I draw for fun. Mainly working on design and technique. Yes I know I cut the dudes foot off. I ran out of room alright?! Jeesh.

These are my geeky shoes

After getting some nice pretty white vans for Christmas last year I decided to embark on a project that sounded like a lot of fun. Now, 297 Days 9 hours, 42 minutes and 35 seconds later...They are FINISHED.

They were this:





They are now this:














Yay for me, now I get to wear them for a week before the snow hits...
Enjoy.

P.S. I got the idea from this guy's wife. Thanks!!

I'm serious

Working

We've been killing ourselves on this senior film thing. My class and I are working throughout the weeks to try and get this thing done ASAP. Yeah its not gonna happen for a bit, but hey its looking great.

Here is a little piece I did for a poster on the wall. The film is focused around boxing in the 1930's, and this is a previous boxing champ. Yes women did box back then. And they wore dresses. While they boxed.

A lot of what I am working on for the film isn't something to show. I'm mainly fixing geometry on various models and other stuff. I'll get some zbrush stuff on here soon considering I'm finally figuring out my way around it. Enjoy.

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.