Sorry this is super late! I just wanted to post this environmental piece that I worked on a few months ago. I thought it fit the prompt for last month pretty well! This was for a short film that I was helping do some VFX for and ended up creating this and a few other shots from scratch. This image is a combination of my work and some talented matte painters who went in and drew some of the detail like the windows and dirt texture.
Aha! I chickened out. I got about this far on an environmental piece before I got overwhelmed.
Or at least, I realized I definitely couldn’t do it in the time frame I set out to. (yesterday. sigh)
So instead, I did a portrait of Jamie Hewlett to celebrate the return of Gorillaz and experimented with watercolor blooms. No photoshop either, booyah.
For 2015 I didn’t make any specific resolutions, but one thing I’ve been meaning to do for a while now is create a series of prints that could potentially become a show or an art book. I’ve been working on a series of portraits based on abstract concepts, so I thought I’d try one for this theme. Also, my environmental concept art skills are not so strong, so this was a sort of cheater-y way out on my part.
You can’t tell it from my scan, but in real life this is printed with eye-hurtingly fluorescent pink ink.
Where would you like to get lost? Where do you most commonly get lost? How do you know you’re lost and what do you see?
Though it’s not something most of us experience in our day-to-day lives, being lost is a unique, unmistakable, and undeniably fascinating concept. Also potentially upsetting if you’ve got some place to be, but let’s disregard that for a moment and just steep in the sensation.
This January, let’s GET LOST and see your best environment concepts, and how you choose to immerse us in the feeling of being lost!
So I am posting this as a cellphone pic from a friends house for New Years. Happy New Years! Sorry, for the quality of the pic. I really wish I would have gotten to color it so the idea would have conveyed better but there was no time. Anyways I recently watched ‘Attack on Titan’. After awhile of thinking I decided to use the apathetic character Levi from my prompt and wondered what he would be like if he existed in the Sailor Moon universe that I watched as a young child. So, here’s Sailor Levi and his duster for ultimate house cleaning.
Have you ever wondered what a character that is based off a human would look like as a human? Well, here’s Emmet from the LEGO movie. I chose the moment when he first sees Wyldstyle, with a reference image below. I hope y’all have a happy new years!
AvenGIRLS! Ha! no.
Sometimes people get so invested in a movie that they start developing their own alternate universes for that particular series. It’s fun to think about the favorite character being something completely different, but staying the same in a way. It makes no sense, but it does. Okay, so think of your favorite movie and your favorite character, what would they be like in an alternate universe? Would they be a different gender? Species? Ethnicity? Maybe even a little bit gay? Whatever it is, do it up.
Behold: Flin. Or F.L.I.N (still don’t know what the acronym stands for)… Flying uh, Lazy Indigenous Noodle. I’ll work on that. My only inspiration here was that I wanted to created a simple tiny robot that could potentially be the hero of a future short film. He still has a long way to go as far as texturing and realism, but he’s simple enough that he could be animated and given some personality.
Unemployed life is was surprisingly busy! I’ve been spending a lot of time lately putting together portfolios and resurrecting old pieces, and sadly I didn’t finish the little robot character that I was starting to work out in my sketchbook above.
I’ve been doing more research about character design, and lo and behold, it’s not just a single drawing of a made-up character (blast)! So I wanted to do a full character sheet of poses, silhouettes, rotations, the whole enchilada, and I’m still planning on it. I just didn’t get it done amidst the other applications I’ve been working on.
Speaking of which, hey! I’m not unemployed anymore! I start working tomorrow at LAIKA animation studio, and I couldn’t be more excited. I hope that goes without saying, ’cause holy crap, I’m still freaking out about it! Fun fact, the director of Rapid Prototyping (dept. where I’ll be working) mentioned this blog in my interview! He was going over my portfolio beforehand and said it caught his interest. So go team! You’re awesome and helped me find a jæb!
Hopefully I’ll post the finished character sheet soon!
Oh my heavens, oh my stars and garters look at all those fifty robots definitely. There sure are fifty of them down there! Wowee zowee, look at how fifty they are. I’ll explain that I cheated a bit this month in that I was already doing an assignment for my Digital Drawing class where I had to do a drawing a day for the whole term. So I chose this month’s theme so I wouldn’t have to do any more work, because I am a lazy busy man. And for the assignment, half of the drawings have to be in only black and white. So I did that. And since the term is almost over, I have below all fifty *cough* drawings that I needed to do. So there they are. I’ve provided a key at the bottom for those of youse who don’t know all these extremely obscure robuts.
1) HAL 9000 — 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Bender — Futurama
3) C3P0 and R2D2 — Some movie about asteroids, I think
4) Rosie the Riveter Robot — The Jetsons
5) Mega Man — Mega Man — Mega Man
6) Marvin the Paranoid Android — Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
7) Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo — Mystery Science Theater 3000
8) T-800 — Toiminatah
9) F.L.U.D.D. — Super Mario Sunshine
10) GLaDOS — Portal
11) The Iron Giant — The Iron Giant
12) That robot they find on the moon in that one Wallace & Gromit — That one Wallace & Gromit
13) The Mr. Krabs imposter robot from that one Spongebob — That one Spongebob (Ravioli ravioli give me the formuoli)
14) Google android mascot — Real life(?)
15) The Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator — Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
16) Robert Cop — Robocop
17) BMO — Adventure Time
18) Chibi Robo — It’s a video game
19) The Tin Man — The Marvelous Magician of Oz, or something like that
20) Weebo — Flubber
21) Mechagodzilla — Godzilla
22) EVE — Wall-E
23) Lieutenant Commander Data — Star Trek: The Next Generation
24) H.E.L.P.eR. — Venture Bros.
25) Dot Matrix — Spaceballs
26) Recognizer — TRON
27) Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots — Hasbro, probably
28) Laputa Robot — Castle in the Sky
29) Monita — Nintendoland
30) Baymax — Big Hero 6
31) XJ9 — My Life as a Teenage Robot
32) Omnidroid — The Incredibles
33) Optimus Prime — Transformers
34) CL4P-TP — Borderlands
35) Robbie the Robot — Lots of stuff. The ’50s. Forbidden Planet, I guess.
36) Cyberman — Doctor Whom
37) TARS — Interstellar
38) DOR-15 — Disney’s Meet the Robinsons
39) Voltron: Defender of the Universe — Voltron: Defender of the Universe
40) R.O.B. — Real Life Nintendo toy
41) Mr. Butlertron — Clone High (his name isn’t Wesley; he calls everyone else that)
42) Noo Noo — Teletubbies
43) 80s Robot — Muppet Movie
44) Astro Boy — Astro Boy
Uhh…50) Dog — Half-Life 2
The Ink Tank Engine 
