A league of their own...

First week of December and I am already posting stuff WooHoo!

Polycount.com is currently hosting a 3d modeling challenge with a topic that is pretty near and dear to my heart: MUTANT LEAGUE!!! I loved these games as a kid and even though they weren't the most popular games they were definitely some of the most memorable. The closest thing we have now is that game Blood Bowl but I haven't played it. Might have to now! I want to post all of my progress here like I did with my LBP2 SackBoy (cuz it's fun and it makes it look like I blog way more than I do haha!), so here is my first post, I will be using this to make ortho's and color tests and stuff. I have been getting some good solid feedback on the forums so you might see some changes overtime:

Family Game Night 4 TV Commercial...

Hasbro has just released a new television commercial for the most recent game I worked on Family Game Night 4: The Game Show Edition, and I am impressed, it's pretty sweet! PLUS stuff I actually worked on is in the commercial. Check it out here: http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=416d9083-5056-900b-104d-f1640cf9375a

Another Mini Comp...

So I have been slacking a bit lately, I have been working on another mini-competition over at GameArtisans.org but unlike my last entry I have failed to post my progress here on my blog. So instead of giving you a big long thread of all the stuff I did for this contest I will just present you with the final submission sheet. Viola!!!

Sleep Tight...

So a few months ago I did some preliminary concept art for a film (that is supposed to go into production soon I heard) about giant gnarly-looking bed-bugs. The person who sent the project my way was actually a teacher of mine from college who is currently working on the film. I've done work for him before and his work has a tendency to fall into the horror category quite often: Lil Dead Girl Music Video (I did character concepts and designed the little dead girl). Here are some progress shots of the Bed-bug creatures from the film. (All of the below images are copyright Beezlebug Bit so you are not free to use them in any way)

Initial concepts:

Orthographic Shots:

Modifications (Final Design):

Action Shots (These were a lot of fun!):

My professional work...

Check out this video from Petroglyph Games featuring their brand new PC MOBA Rise of Immortals, I was the UI artist on the project so I created art for all of the menu's, icon's and even some of the combat decals (Like Kyrie's targeting arrow). I am excited to finally have a shipped project under my belt, and I am even more excited because next month another game I worked on is supposed to ship for ALL 3 CONSOLES! WooHoo!

Pirates rule!

So I felt like illustrating a Pirate, so I did. Not much to say about this one, really just wanted to do something fun and simple. Thanks for looking!

GLEEk Out...

So here it is, my submission of shame. For those of you who don't know who this is it's Lea Michele who plays Rachel Berry on Glee.

I am a fan of the show but I always get a lot of flack for it when I tell people. Apparently telling your guy friends you like this show is like saying you hate sports and don't understand why action movies are so popular! I can't help it though, I was raised by a family of performers, artists and entertainers, so this show is right up my alley of things I was exposed to growing up (Showtunes, Musicals, Pop Music, etc.). I chose miss Rachel Berry for the same reason I picked Bill Hader and House, she just looked fun to draw, and a bit of a challenge to boot. One major thing I learned from this piece though: High res images make much better reference pieces. A buddy of mine told me that once when he was doing this same type of thing. I believed him at the time but I don't think I really understood what he meant until I did this myself. I think the lighting and coloring came out way better in this one than my previous pieces but man, nailing that likeness is HARD!!!