Thursday, April 15, 2010

Quick over paint

Ullo!
Just a quick over paint image.



Fear not, got a monster update coming :D

Friday, April 9, 2010

More environments

Hiya!
Still on my quest to do better environments :) Gotta keep going with this, although definetely in the mood for some more monster drawings! First pic is from inside K Naut's ship. These I think might be the holding cells for any prisoners.




Next is a quickish afternoon pic. Just some dragons flying off for colder weather (getting too warm!):


Other than that, I'm still on my journey through Final Fantasy XIII. Finally made it to Gran Pulse...and haven't touched it for a week :s Gah!! Must finish though.

In other news, the game I've been working on has a nice new trailer out!! Finally a glimpse of the aliens!


Woo hoo! Can't wait for people to finally play this!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Quick animatic

Heya!

Short little animatic I put together, just more practice really :) Both figures were based on 20 minute drawings. No idea what's on the paper he holds up, that's for you to decide ;)



I'm thinking the next animatic will involve spacecraft fighting or something :D I've been playing more FFXIII - the fighting system is much better, but the characters are still irritating. It's just all so melodramatic, I can't get into the story at all :/
Bye for now!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Speedy and life drawings

Ullo!
A speedy testing out some of co-worker Maciej's new brushes :) A guy and his dog walking across a dry riverbed. Ignore the town!



2 more first person life drawings - the 1st drawn on an ICE train here in Deutschland, the 2nd in a kitchen!





In gaming news, I finished Mass Effect 2! Mordin died, NO IDEA how, but offscreen, no doubt in an undignified manner :( I felt gutted. Might just replay that whole scene (I of course made an alternate save before the whole end sequence!). Ahem, and I slept with Tali, as she'd made it that far with me, and stuck by me :)
Now onto Final Fantasy XIII, which at the moment pales in comparison to the mighty ME2. Auto battle? Only control 1 team mate? Using potions doesn't take a turn?? *Scoff* Final Fantasy for 5 year olds :(
Despite all this negativity, I am of course going to play it to death.
Cheers!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Speed paint

Heya!
Just a Sunday speed paint, trying to work on my environments still :)



Watching through Fringe for the first time, pretty creepy show!
Bye for now!

Friday, March 5, 2010

2 animatics and a pic

Ullo all!
I decided to do some simple animatics! So there's no actual animation in them alas, didn't have the time (those are reserved for work which maybe I'll be able to show one day). The first is from the K Naut boards I posted earlier this year (the music is from Metroid Prime):




The second is the short tail of a young boy trying to summon a monster from a statue. It was drawn pretty quick, no shading or rendering or sound effects, just wanted to put it alongside the music (from Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea):




And a small underwater environment pic, which I'm practising more of:



Does anyone else find scanning planets in Mass Effect 2 tedious? Yet I must do it all!!
Bai!

Monday, March 1, 2010

more stuff

Ullo!
Another new pic in my monster scribble series :) This here's a more fluffy one:




And my 3rd ZBrush piece, based on one of the previous scribble monsters in 2 posts below (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWmTrkVafrbI5gPDpj8vqdpcuG2h5l0EdkAGi2uUxZ6Lijs5afgvshANyWPlR73SesItFw_FhVkf1Tl5U7oc-ths5EOiUoqpvptZhZSF9mpPYU1AGUjJPmOyjVAuXKfa5Ym4W5B8BvZBSg/s1600-h/scribble2+.jpg). It was my first time using Zspheres and creating my own textures from Photoshop :) All a learning experience!





Hahah it looks well dodgy now! It didn't seem that bad from the drawing...Obviously would have to change it in some way, add more tentacles down below...! So yeah, cool stuff, hope I'm improving!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

2nd ZBrush attempt

Ullo!
Quick update :) I thought I'd start learning ZBrush! It's such a cool and fun program - time flies when using it! So here is the second ever head I did (the first is very ehhh). I thought I'd do a dog instead.

Second head:





I can see stuff wrong, but I'll keep going with the program. No idea how to apply textures and stuff yet! Ok, off to Berlin for the weekend, cheers :)

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Scribble monsters

Ullo!
Some new drawings! Created using a fun technique: just draw a load of random shapes with a marker, flip the paper over, and pull out creatures from those shapes. It's a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon, and you'll find yourself creating stuff you would never normally pull from your head. So here are 2 of them (with more to come!):

Armoured underwater creature:




The bubbler:




And a speedpaint I did today (featuring K Naut):




I finally started Mass Effect 2 - Donut Shepard is back in action!! I'll try get a photo so you can see the gorgeous man in action ;)
Bye for now!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Helmets

Ullo!
Helmet designs!



I finished Assassin's Creed 2 at long last! No achievement for getting Altair's costume though, oh the pain :( Now onto another sequel! (Oh and am playing Broken Sword on the DS, my first ever Broken Sword game!)

Tschus!

Friday, February 12, 2010

First person life drawing sketches

Ullo!
Just some rough life drawing pics drawn in the past weekend or so here in Frankfurt. No idea why, but I have a weird fascination of drawing my trousers and feet. Same with taking photos! It's like I want to give you the impression this is exactly what I'm seeing.





Am playing through Assassin's Creed 2 still, though Bioshock 2 is winking at me alot :D Anxiously awaiting Mass Effect 2 in the post...what's with all the sequels? Love it!
Proper update soon, new boards!
Cheers!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Alien life cycle

Ullo!
New art time! This here is the various stages of an alien's life. I was thinking of boarding up examples of each of its attack patterns (...yes, I've been playing/working with games for too long now :P).



Tschussy!

Monday, January 25, 2010

K Naut boards (and a happy new year!)

Hi all! Happy new year (ok, it's a little late!).
I've been working on some storyboards (colour this time!). There are 2 separate fight scenes, as well as the arrival and epilogue. I would like to do an animatic of it, if I have time...

Here, K Naut arrives to the planet, landing his ship with a BANG!


K Naut is attacked by a native!


2nd fight scene (I'd say there'd be more of a fight inbetween). K Naut gets what H wants and escapes!


K Naut reveals his true self!


I've also been doing some life drawing (no naked people, alas!), which I will upload in a future update :) I plan on filling a sketchbook of it, a page a day at least! Is just of local places and apartments ;)

Ta ta!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Tentacle monsters

Ullo!
No, there's nothing pervy here ;) Just your average tentacle monsters. I imagine these things attach to the upper body and just spread, turning the body into tentacles.



Noice! So, wishing you all a merry christmas and a 'appy new year! I shall be back in London enjoying family, friends and mulled wine :)

Tschussy!

Friday, December 4, 2009

Merry christmas!

Merry christmas all (yeah it's a bit early)! This is the card I handed out to my fellow Crytekkers :)



Have some mulled wine/gluhwein/glogg!