Judy Moody stuff

I did a few color key paintings for the CG. sequences done in the Judy Moody and the not Bummer Summer film. It was actually pretty fun, went super fast and was able to see the final result in the film quickly. The movie was kind of for a young adolescent audience and unless you fall into the 12 year old girl category maaaybe it's not for you, But I still had fun working on the dream sequences. If you're interested in seeing how they turned out, go to the link above and you can find an example on the bottom of the videos to the left.

Rocks

Sometimes, when I have time, I do random sketches of things just for practice. I usually don't show them cause they usually turn out bad or don't have a purpose. But I felt like showing a few over the next few days, just to keep people checkin back. This was a practice experiment I did a long time ago but was too shy to show it!

More MEGAMIND stuff!

I decided to post some more stuff from Megamind. At the top, Titan fighting Megaminds robot early development piece. I did some design stuff for Minion who used to be a little midget dude with a jetpack that was Megamind's right hand man. This is before his character changed into a fish, I really prefer the new design it turned out great! Also Some pre-vis for the Metroman museum I was working on this with Erwin Madrid and pretty much did the same shot as him as I was trying to design the statue, his turned out much better than mine. Under that is the museum store with a bunch of "Ubertoys" and memorabilia before they changed his name to Metroman. Then some more of the giant robot just a different take on it than the one I posted before. The Metrocity development was to show the contrast between Hals neighborhood and the skyscrapers. I put cranes on the rooftops because they are always rebuilding the city as the superhero battles constantly destroy stuff. These are all unfinished and could be a lot better. But I thought if would be fun to post what I did for people to see. Hope it doesn't hurt your eyes too bad. heheh... All images copyright Dreamworks Animation.

Megamind in theatres!!

I worked on Megamind right after finishing up Afro Samurai. I had the honor to work with some amazingly talented people who are also great friends over at PDI DREAMWORKS. You can see some of the artists in my links section. The look for Megamind went through some interesting takes. I did some early pre-vis/ look development so make sure you stay after and look for my name in the credits! heheh As you can see the giant robot looked much different at one point the piece on top was a collaboration between myself and Dermot Power. I used it in the key below for the scene where Titan is fighting Megamind in the city. The observatory piece was a collaboration between myself and Alex Puvilland. I will post more stuff later. Make sure you go see it!! and Buy the Art of book on amazon!! Some of my art is in it! Congrats to my good pals and everyone who worked on it! Great to see how this film came together! All work copyright Dreamworks animation.

Lobster ship

A speed painting that started with a brush experiment. It's a little different for me, and that's what I was going for. Trying to challenge myself when I have time, to design things differently than I would normally.
I couldn't decide which palette I like best so I'll put em both up. Lemme know which one you think is better.

Daimyo Armory

I just wanted to change it up a bit. The last few things I put up here are in a different style and I don't want to give the impression to all the non scroller downers that this is all I've done. I had fun with this piece and wanted to share. I will be adding it to my website along with more unseen stuff soon.
And I just got back from Italy for the Art of Games Show that I was included in. I will post a few pics in the next few days or so... promise.

Happy Easter!

In the spirit of easter this year, I gave this dude some bunny ears. Another image that I'm hoping to sell limited edition Giclee prints of at the Gallery opening.

This is an in progress sketch, that I'm hoping to be selling prints of among others in The Art of Games show, at Valle d'Aosta Italy. I'll blog more about that later but for now look at the Sketch inspired by one of my favorite movies "King Kong" with a twist. This isn't finished, I'll post it again when it is.

Afro Shipped today!

Today Afro Samurai slices through shelves! This was one of the most fulfilling experiences I've had so far professionally, I really enjoyed working on this project. I'm really excited and hope this one does well because the team on this project was amazing! Everyone really worked hard to get this project finished and even harder when they wanted to include that little something extra that they felt would make it even more bad ass! Everyone on this team was truly passionate about it and that's why they worked so hard and put in so many extra hours to get it done. We had a small team of really competent people and I am honored that they let me contribute and be a part of it! I have nothing but good things to say about this team and I could go on, but if you're here, you probably just want to look at pictures anyway... And check out the site! bloodisbeautiful.com

Early Development for Tomb Raider Underworld

Both of these pieces are early development sketches. The top one I was just trying to show the scale of the Kraken by having Giant tentacles with smaller and medium sized tentacles on them that from a distance maybe looked like hair or something and group them to look like a shape. The bottom piece was done for the Kraken Area before anyone knew what we wanted to do. It was kind of fun to explore different ideas that could possibly translate over. I wanted Lara walking toward the castle to be the first read and seeing the Kraken on top and surrounding it to be second and third. I thought it would be cool to hide the tentacles in the environment so you didn't notice at first that she just walked past a giant Kraken tentacle, this things taking up the entire cave!