Art stuffs... Star wars inspired and otherwise...

The probe image was kind of a quick deal but the city image, with the exception of the atmosphere is nearly fully modeled so it took some time.  Still tweaking that one....

"The Garage" work in progress

Haven't posted stuff in a while as I'm working on a ton of personal stuff and pretty much neck deep.  Here's a more finished segment of one I'm working on but still have to solve some issues with the rest of the image.  And no...I did not work on "Oblivion" :)

Hardsuit - reposted!

I've been meaning to post this for years but am only now getting around to it.  This was done fairly quickly for a few hundred bucks.  I shot the battle sequence in my garage using miniatures mixed with scale models and did the FX in iMovie.  The repair bay set was also done in my garage in Seattle modified from a previous set used for another short.  The actress in it, Monica, was awesome and we're talking about a sequel.  Bring on the big budget and effects! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etxnPzQSzts&feature=youtu.be

Cygnus - The Black Hole

Nope, I didn't work on a new version of the movie.  Once in a great while, though, I get the desire to work on something that is not my own and do my version of it.  In my world the Cygnus is a little more battered and NASA functional but still incorporates that semi-spindly look. This is the fore/bridge section of the ship.  I'll post other views as I have the time to work on them.  Paintover on a 3D model of my own creation in roughly 6-8 hours.  The nebula was ref taken from the net and heavily modified and painted over as well.

The Praetus Destiny

A quick painting of a spaceship leaving a planet.  Bashed some Sketchup parts and did a very fast paint over.  Maybe a couple of hours invested?   I start by pilfering my abandoned Sketchup projects for parts.  I don't spend too much time on refinement of the details, I just try to come up with interesting shapes.  The grey model below was bashed together in about half an hour and rendered in Keyshot, I then reconfigured the pieces to make something a little more to my liking.

Escape pod

The pod itself was taken from a 3D model I'm currently working on.  I also sdded some post work Photoshop.

Chrome dome

Fooling around with the idea of making concept images look more like something out of a photography magazine or something you'd see in an ad using very dramatic lighting with high contrast.   The helmet was modeled in Sketchup and the image was rendered in Keyshot with minimal post work in Photoshop.

My work in Expose 10

My piece "The Visitors" will be published in the upcoming Expose 10 from Ballistic Publishing.  Available for pre-order through their site now.
http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/expose/expose_10/

Speeder

One of the cool things about 3D is that when the model is done you have so many options

in terms of imaging.  I built this speeder type craft in 3D and have been fooling around with atmosphere and lighting scenarios, off and on, for a couple of months.   It was also in a painting that you can find further back in the blog entries.  

Zombie weapons!

I'm working on a zombie script idea that has some weapons that look like they were cobbled together in someone's workshop, beat up, utilitarian and just plain ugly.  

Beware the Batman

Doing some freelance vehicle design for the time being for "Beware the Batman" due out 2013.

ALMIGHTY

My good buddy comic book artist Ed Laroche wrote and illustrated a Graphic novel called "Almighty"

An awesome, post-apocalyptic punch in the neck that serves up goodness by the bucket fulls!  It is currently in option by a prominent director and movie studio and Ed had me do some concepts for the movie script for the fun of it.  Below is the "Juggernaut", the main character's bike in the script.  I had to knock this out very quickly so it is a pastiche of a few google warehouse pieces and a whole lot of modeling by myself within a very shot span of time.  For a quick concept I rather dig it.  Post apocalyptic bikes with mounted machine guns rule!

Atmosphere

Did this one over the weekend and thought I'd post it up and use it as my nifty new blog header!

Enviro concepts

Warm ups for some environments I'm working out.

Road Trip on Perios Sigma

The 2nd image I was working on this past weekend.  Still in detail stages with this one but finished enough to post.  Sketchup, Keyshot and Photoshop.

The Visitors

Did a few images over the weekend, this is one of them.  I think I'm done with it but not sure...Sketchup, Vue10 and Photoshop for this one.

TRON: Uprising

Cool design stuff from the upcoming TRON: Uprising

Personal Data Terminal (WIP)

This is a reworking of a prop I did for a professional project I was working on.  It still needs tweaking but I re- imagined this is as an industrial portable data terminal a worker would use on something like a construction site.

More stuff from black ice planet

I keep wanting to revisit this world of cold, black ice and expand on it.  I came up with some more scenarios, an armada of alien ships and a lone, massive vehicle on the planet's surface.

                                         

A quick landscape sketch in Vue 10.