I entered the Last Man Standing competition over at conceptart.org, ( www.lastmanart.com ) and since the deadline is this Saturday I figure I can go ahead and post my entry up. I just have a lil' bit of noodling on it that I've been putting off, like the statue in the background. Oh yeah, the theme is 'Underneath It All'. I'm thinking that people will be going with more serious topics and not something as goofy as this... My thesis is going to involve a world of my creation and the creatures, people, and locations that make it up. I guess this is a preview of some of the creatures and environments, they're mostly work in progresses.
Here's an illustration of Lyra, Iorek, and Pantailamon from one of my favorite books, The Golden Compass. I pretty much wanted to get my image of them out of my head before I see the movie. (In the book the compass didn't really have a bright glow like that, but I'm just having fun with it).
So this is my entry for the 100th Creature of the Week activity (COW) over at conceptart.org. http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showth ... p?t=106442 . Basically they had 30 categories (some of them really cheesy), you pick 10 of them and do 10 images in each category, and the contest lasted a month. It was a lot of fun/work/fun work, and it's a relief to be done to tell you the truth.
Started as an art test and continued as a project, this is getting to be pretty fun...I wish I'd written some dialogue though. I'm definitely learning a lot from this, and it'd be fun to flesh something like this all the way out. These are all WIPs, except for page 3.
So this summer I interned at N-Space, a game developer in Orlando. I worked on some fun stuff including 2 unannounced Wii titles, as well as Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the DS (!!!). It was an awesome super good learning experience, and I met some really cool people there too. Since most of the stuff I did was under NDA, they were kind enough to give me a couple of assignments that I'd be able to leave with and put in my portfolio. There was a character design /ortho one, and an environment design, as well as a sort of blueprint for how my hill camo castle fortress would unfold etc. Yep.
I was asked if I had any sequential work, (I hadn't) so this happened. I guess it's sort of a Hansel and Gretel/troll under the bridge/Black Annis cliche kind of story. The last panel is kind of unresolved... Also, a goofy lil sewer croc. He's a friendly guy for serious.
The Nuckelavee, a horrible skinless, black veined horse/man hybrid, is a creature from Scottish folklore. I'm planning on painting him in full later, so I guess this is sort of a preview. The colors may look a little washed out on your monitor, I think mine pumps up the gamma or something. Here's some info on him here .
Fun lil project, I chose the evil, satanic ,bass-playin' Murdoc of Gorillaz fame for a celebrity portrait assignment. Slowly but surely I think I'm managing to work faster...hehe, what a weird statement that is, huh?
This is also sort of a reminder for myself to write a big ass entry on my San Francisco experience sooner or later...