Fantasy Dog!

This is a WORK IN PROGRESS for my creature design class.  I am in the midst of working on the costume (a sort of camel rider motif), but its not done yet...

Attempting a bit more of an "illustrative" approach, which I am beginning to like!

Thanks for looking!

Some speedpaintings

So I am fortunate enough to be taking a class with the incredible James Paick.  I have been learning a lot, and have been getting over some of my trepidation about environments.  Here's some quickies from his class:

Of course blogger has to mess up the color a bit, but hopefully you get the point.

Cheers everyone!

Live action "Steamboy"

So here's some stuff from the end of last term that for some reason I haven't posted.  I have some design sketches as well, but I want to clean them up a bit first before showing...

More to come soon!

Its my aeroplane

I know, I know -- I've been bad about updates! I have lots to show, but most of it is still unfinished! I promise to get to some of it soon!


Anyway, here are some sketches for my "wright brothers" style airplane.

I was going for more of a "wobbly line" approach this time. Hope it works...


Here's the rendering.  I wanted to make it colorful, because its supposed to be for a "hero".  I'm not completely happy with it, but I figure its time to move on:

Thanks for looking!

Princess Bride - Part I

Hey all -- its been a little while since I updated here. I've been busy retooling my portfolio and working on projects for school, hence the lack of updates. I have a lot of half-finished work that is going to have to wait until I get a little spare time.

Anyway, here's a project I have been working on for my character design class -- its a re-imagining of "The Princess Bride." I have 6 characters designed, but they are not all rendered yet, so look forward to seeing the rest of them soon.


My portfolio blog is back up with a bunch of new work. You can find the link to it at the top of this page.

Cheers!

Mechs!! (Part Deux)

So here's how the mech turned out.

I named it the "Z-2 Hammer Head", here's the final rendering (I still may go back and throw on some rim lighting):
And some color variations. I kind of like the "multi" sponsored one more than the "coke" one -- it has more of a NASCAR feel...

I really like how a lot of this page came out, so hopefully some of it will make it into my portfolio:

I did some orthographics and more sketch pages as well, but those are not really worth showing.

Thanks for looking!

Mechs!!

So I'm taking this class called "Vehicles and Props" this term, where we got a very open-ended assignment of designing whatever sort of vehicle or prop that we wanted. I decided to do a "Gladiatorial Mech-Suit", which I defined as essentially a large robot manned by a single pilot whose sole purpose is to beat the crap out of other robots for sport on TV. I figure they will all have corporate sponsors like CocaCola, AT&T, etc. Also, I decided it was all hand-to-hand, no projectiles. Think wrestling, but with giant robots. Anyway, here are some of the sketches:





(The first one is a continuation of the one I did over the summer for Carlo Arellano)

I'm amazed at how much I have progressed at designing mechanical objects even since the summer. Its always an awesome feeling to see noticeable progress in your work.

In two weeks I have to finish up the design, as well as do a final rendering. Wish me luck!