November 30, 2013

SPECTRUM 20


My piece "The Jellyfish (Garbage)" has been included in the 20th edition of fantastic art annual Spectrum, on a page alongside pieces by the amazing Thom Tenery and Richard Wright. As is the case every year, this book is filled with amazing art.


Spectrum 20 is out now and is worth picking up!

Spectrum cover art by Donato Giancola.

November 19, 2013

CTN ANIMATION EXPO


A couple pics of my book from the Design Studio Press booth at the CTN Animation Expo in Burbank, California this past weekend.

Thanks to Design Studio Press and to everyone that picked up a copy!

November 18, 2013

CONCEPT ART WORLD - EK BOOK FEATURE


Production art/design site Concept Art World has posted a little feature about my book on their website and Facebook page. Check it out here.

Concept Art World a great site that features production art and illustration by artists from games, film, etc. They featured some of my work earlier this year and I'm happy to be featured on their sites again.

Thanks to Louis Iracheta.

November 12, 2013

EK SERIES ARTBOOK RELEASED



My first art book, Born In Concrete: The EK Series was released today. Published by Design Studio Press, this hardcover book is 96 pages and features all the materials created for the Entartete Kunst series, including some new work created specifically for this collection.


I recently received my advance copies and I was very pleased with the quality of the final product. Nice paper stock with great colour and contrast on the images and nice details like book end pages, and head/tail strips, etc.


Amazon is still offering it at killer deal, so if you are interested in picking one up, now is the time to do it. Now that it is officially released it should also be showing up art/design book stores for those that still like buying their books the old fashion way.


Thanks to everyone that already purchased pre-order copies and big thanks to Scott Robertson and Tinti Dey at Design Studio Press for making it happen!

November 11, 2013

CLOCKWERK


A while back I posted about updating my website with some of the concept art I did for the Captain America: Super Soldier game, and at that time I mentioned posting some more of my production art in the future. Well it has taken longer than I thought but I finally got around to updating my website with some concept art from a game design pitch done a few years back at Next Level Games called Clockwerk.

This was a fun little design pitch that featured two bitter old caretakers, called Hausmeisters, that worked in the World Clock that governed all time in the universe. On their last day on the job the World Clock is invaded by Gremlins, and they have to repair the clock to restart time so they can finally retire! I won't go into the game mechanics here other than that it was a kind of puzzle game that involved rolling, floating, and some combat elements.


Almost all of the work I did for this pitch was character design along with a few promotional pieces. There was some more environment and some gameplay concept pieces created for this project, but most of it was handled by art director extraordinaire Barret Chapman (who also did all the animation for the animatic.....what a guy!). 


This design pitch was picked up by a major publisher only to be dropped a few weeks later when it was discovered that another division working within that company had a project with almost the same game mechanics (and they were 2 years in!). That's the way it goes sometimes


Go my website to see more.

I've also added a "Selected Media" section to my portfolio on my website to feature various appearances of my work across different forms of media (print, web, video etc.) for those interested in such things. Check it out here.