and the medieval theme goes on........

Something I did for fun at work but ended up being used as an online advertisement image, which you can see here http://www.kingdomsofcamelot.com/.

If you got facebook, give the game a shot!

Kingdoms of Camelot

I've been working on contract at Watercooler Inc for around a month and my job has been to re-do all the artwork for their Facebook game Kingdoms Of Camelot. The previous art was done by interns so they could get the beta out quickly and they felt it didn't look very appealing. These images show the recent art update for the environments, I still have to do a lot more as far as icons, soldiers, and characters so that will be released later. This is totally different than anything I've done before, having to draw things at a small scale and making them clear at sizes like 90x90 pixels. It's been really fun and seeing my actual art be the game is really cool.

Aircraft Carrier = Spaceship

I did a small freelance gig a few weeks back and the point of the whole thing was to turn the bridge of the USS Hornet (docked in Alameda) into a spaceship bridge for a movie trailer/pitch. However there were limitations because of the budget for this project so not too many modifications could be made, just a few CG things here and there along with the windows being covered in green board so later it couldbe made to look like outer space. The photo on top is the original that I was given and then what ended up being the space ship bridge along with some crew placement.

Last time with the ships

Had to go over some of the ships and make their paintjobs based on animals, which ended up being fun because of the bright colored animals I was told to based them on. Amie did some sweet character concepts for this project so check those out on her blog at http://amiechan09.blogspot.com///.

Dead Diver

I came across some images of old diving suits while doing some reference gathering online and for some reason an image of an undead old school diver drowning modern-day divers came to my head. Realizing that my morbid thoughts could lead to something I would enjoy drawing I quickly did a doodle and threw some color on it before I forgot about the whole thing. I plan on starting to work on this thing later this week. Should be entertaining.

Lots of little space ship thingies

I recently started a small freelance job where I have to figure out what some hover ships look like and it's been a blast. I was in a total art funk until this came along and doing these sketches has re-energized me. Maybe it's because this is for a more cartoony project instead of the usual realistic stuff. The ships are supposed to be put together from pieces of junked ships and some of them are personalized by the users with objects or paint.

Float Plane and some other recent things

After weeks of staying away from the Float Plane piece because I had hit a major wall with it, I suddenly found my way and finished it during the last few days. I had posted a sketch of it back in May and I'm glad I was able to get it done. During my time away from the Float Plane I started to work on Maya again (yes, I did hate it in school but I figured I'd give it another shot on my own terms and not without the stresses of school to interfere). I did a few tutorials and I started to model the train I had drawn a while back because I figured the train would be a lot of simple shapes and maybe it'd be easy for a Maya Noob like me. How wrong I was.....but I'm still enjoying it more than I did in school and this is what I have so far. It has a ways to go of course. The last one is a photoshop painting of a model I built and took photos off for reference. I really enjoyed it and I think it's something I'll do more off with my models.

Tree of knowledge

This is actually the first piece I've considered finished from a bunch of sketches for over a month. Finally got the drive to finish one since I was busy with the website for a while. A take on the tree of knowledge, more evil than good I would say.