ALIEN:Isolation (part 2)

The first batch of character work for Creative Assembly's ALIEN:Isolation. 2011.

As mentioned previously, the majority of this works owes a debt to John Mollo and

Moebius. Their original work on the film has lasted the decades and still stands as

the benchmark for serious scifi work today.

All in game mesh work (as far as I know) is based off scanned actors, so I feel my role here was more of costume designer than character designer, but it's always nice to reflect some of the personality in pose, attitude and accessories.

Originally the Alien was as it appears in the film (bipedal legs), but this wouldn't allow for the degree of agility required, hence the 'dog' leg final version.

We created these for the Nostromo Edition. I'm really shit at likenesses.

Alien: Isolation TM & © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

ALIEN:Isolation (part 1)

Here is the first post of ALIEN:Isolation work.

In 2011, I worked for Creative Assembly/SEGA for around six months on the pre-production of 

the project. It was a joy and a treat to work on the project and I want to thank Jude Bond and

Alistair Hope for their great artistic and creative direction, thanks chaps!

The source material is of course the best you can get: Ron Cobb,

Chris Foss, Moebius and Geiger (not to mention Scott, O'Bannon , Bower et al!). It was a joy to dip into their material and in a tiny way contribute to the world of ALIEN.

I will post more soon regarding the character work, which if I'm honest, my part owes 95% of

the work to Moebius and amazing John Mollo

(who an entire generation of concept artists owe a debt to how we approach sci-fi costuming).

But for now: storyboards. These were created as part of an animatic, essentially an 'animated' storyboard. I was using my triangle brush in Sketchbook Pro for theses, later exported in layers to

be animated in After Effects.

Alien: Isolation TM & © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

Nuthin' But Mech ....Ag'in

Another piece for the Nuthin' But Mech book.

This one has some issues :/

Nuthin' But Mech

Here is one of the pieces I did for Nuthin' But Mech Volume II

The proceeds go to Francis Tsai and his family, 

so get some great mech art and help out too!

Multi Mono Magazine + Good Fugu

Here's a Good Fugu page created for the good folks at MultiMono.

Screenprinted 'zine fuguness!

Old and new

Hopper Model Kit

Hopper Pre-Orders are now up!

I'm super excited to see this come together. Stefano has done a fantastic job on the Hopper

and pilots, and Michael at Industria Mechanika has worked super hard (as usual!) on

bringing all the process together. Thanks guys!

21 Draw Artists Book

Sorry for the lack of activity on the blog, there will be updates soon.

In the meantime though, please follow the below link to a

crowd funded book I will hopefully be contributing to!

I'm very excited to be one of the 100 artists who are involved in the project, so

please click the image to see the full list of artists and more about the book!

Thanks!

Edge Magazine

ALIEN:Isolation is featured in February's Edge Magazine.

There's a couple of small shots of the costume designs I created

with heavy reference to the classic work of Moebius and John Mollo.

(Without John Mollo we'd still be designing spacefarers wearing spandex).

ALIEN: Isolation

Dev Diary for Creative Assembly's ALIEN:Isolation.

There's a couple of early character concepts (from 2011) in there (around 0.37 and 1.30). I can hopefully share the actual images soon. I had a cracking time working on this with a great team. Looking forward to the release!