Water Drop

Here's an oldie.  I painted this as a fun portfolio piece, focusing on achieving nice realistic water reflections.

Z Tutorials Intro Progress Screen

I'm currently working on creating a 3D animated intro in Maya for the tutorial videos I'm putting together.  Here's the 3D text's final framing.  I think the lighting is turning out nicely.  The camera does a fly by near the text and turns around it before ending in this location.  Once the 3D is rendered, I'll probably do some post work in After Effects to make the stage a bit more interesting.

Idiocracy Concepts and Matte Paintings

A few years ago I worked with a small post production company called Stargate Digital.  My main purpose, while I was there, was to be the 3D artist in the Matte Painting department. Eventually my Photoshop and other artistic skills stood out and I was tasked to create these concept paintings and matte paintings for the film Idiocracy.  This was my first eye opening experience in the entertainment/post production industry.

Stadium Concept: Idiocracy

Raw Footage

Monster Truck Collision Angle 1 - Matte Painting

Monster Truck Collision Angle 2 - Matte Painting

Monster Truck Collision Angle 2 - Concept

Piranha Purgatory Character Concepts

This is a series of character concepts I created for an old job designing cellphone games.  This idea was for a game called Piranha Purgatory where you'd swim around as a ghost piranha scaring other fish to increase your score.

Mushroom Sitter - WIP

Mushroom Sitter WIP

This is a digital painting I've been working on just for fun so the time spent on it has also been very casual.  Here are a few of the steps that I've gone through to get it to where it is now.  You can see how it transformed from the original sketch, but I'm going to put the character back in somewhere plus throw something in the foreground.  We'll see when I get around to finishing it.

The Importance of Domains

Here's a fun post.  I just finished a motion graphics video for the company I work for.  It was a fun project that I don't get to do very often, but it looks like 2012 is the year for informational videos at my company, so I'm excited to do more.  Hopefully I find some time to utilize my 3D skills as well.

For this video, I did everything from planning the script, storyboards, concepts, and an animatic, to the final motion graphics, video and sound editing, and recorded my own voice over.

Here's a side by side video of a section of the animatic showing the storyboards I created and the final motion graphics.

Rose Sketch

 I'll bring some older sketches that I've added to my sketches sub-page up to the front here and tell you a little bit about them.

I painted this rose in Painter for my girlfriend.  Of course she likes flowers and enjoyed the painting as her iphone background for a while.  I've always liked the natural brush stroke effect and paint mixing in Painter and need to work more with it.

30 second – 1 minute figure sketches

It’s past time that I start getting my work back up online so I’ve decided to throw up a couple of images I’ve done recently to get things rolling!

Artwork Coming Soon!

Blog content and artwork coming soon!

I will post my art work, new and old, for everyone to enjoy.  Here's an egg for you in the mean time.  I created this in Illustrator, it's all vector shapes and gradients so it's workable in very large formats.