Some sketches

I'm starting a Dead Space redesign, here's the initial pass on the "Necromorphs":

A lot more for this project to come soon.

Also, here are some sketches done for my "Originality in Design" class:

Nothing super original yet, but the techniques used to arrive at these are certainly out of my usual repertoire.  I have to give some credit to my buddy Arron Ingold (super-talented guy, btw: you should check him out), who has come up with an extremely efficient "creature head" painting process that he was kind enough to share with me.  I'm now able to do these fairly quickly, so expect more of them pretty soon.

Here's the WORK IN PROGRESS of my pitch illustration for the Legend stuff from the previous post:

Thanks for looking!

19 comments:

_gem_ said...

YEEEEEAAAAH~!! Creature Power!

Arron said...

Friggin' awesome!

G said...

BEAAAST!!!

Marco Meredith said...

Beautiful images, I think the thumbnails which bare a closer similarity to humans are the more disturbing ones, it all comes down to the audiences ability to recognise and summarise the antagonist. And when you see a glimmer of your self or of the general familar public in a nightmarish creature its always going to be more worrying than something you know you have no relation to.

aintshakespeare said...

Creepy and cool.

Shreya said...

Very cool!
Any chance of sharing the process with us? :)

g said...

great stuff zach, loving the bottom heads :)

Juan Cruz Riveros said...

the first and last are the best monsters.

I remember Resident evil.

Tom Zhao said...

that pitch piece is turning out great, the lighting and your composition makes an awesome opportunity to show off meg's gnarly face so i hope you do something cool with it!

Josh Kao said...

dude next level!

joon ahn said...

damn u r getting better and better

Alex said...

that pitch piece is kickass

Luke said...

good job brotha man

Roy Santua said...

.... oooohhhhhh yeah!! some serious ass-kicking stuff, bud.

Jung Park said...

Awesome galley!
keep it up

-jung

Bryan Wynia said...

Looking good sir. You have really brought your work to the next level. Keep up the amazing work.

Anthony Francisco said...

Man, great update!
you are getting your creatures really nice. I like how the design on the Pumpkin head turned out.

keep going man .. keep going! :)

Jparked said...

awesome!!!

Luke Berliner said...

Nice!!