Happy Halloween

I've decided - for one reason and another - to return to painting in Photoshop.

Hello darkness my old friend.

BLAST from the Past #002.5

As a multiplayer game, Avalon was a blast,

finding a single player format was always tricky,

here's the animatic to sell the single player mode.

I only drew the frames,

the edit was done by Dan Porter and sound by Steve Rocket,

they live over here now: The Trailerfarm

Speaking of the frames, here's a few,

I coloured about 60 of these in a week.

 Back in 2005 I think...

BLAST from the Past #002

After the Metallica game I joined the Moto GP team

to concept and build a few characters for their prototype project: Avalon.

It became a high point and the very lowpoint of my game career.

I was tasked with coming up with four distinct body types to reflect

the weapon classes: gunner, grenadier, sniper, rocketeer.

This was my initial concept. I am going to say no more, except:

WE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED HERE ;)

Circa 2004:

Of course game dev is not so simple. 

Below are the iterations and then the direction changes

which occured after a short break in the prototyping. 

Sadly the game wasn't picked up.

I was under increasing pressure to become a painter,

which lead me to where I am now I guess.

It also taught me to be as

hard as nails when it comes to feedback.

Next time, the Avalon Animatic.

INTERMISSION

Thanks all for the overwhelming response

to my last post, I think I went viral for a few hours back there...

Still busy, so more to come from the store room I'm afraid.

BLAST from the Past #001

For a while it was illegal to post these anywhere,

it may still be, who knows!

Anyway, designs for a PS2 postapocalyptic driving/adventure game

(set to the sounds, and including the members, of a

popular anti-Napster mega band)

Dating from 2003 to 2004.

I really enjoyed creating this stuff, and it sort of set

the ball rolling... ahh the good old days.

INTERMISSION

While I'm busy with various projects (yay) 

I wont have much time for personal work (boo!)

So we'll have to make do with some history lessons (meh!)

Thank you for your patience!

OFF RAMP Process

I only use one brush size by the way, 

this was the triangular headed brush, 

set to go from 0.1 to 132 depending on pressure. 

Same goes for my more rugular shaped brushes.

OFF R>MP

If this guy's had the summer vacation 

I've had he's probably going to leave those

kids in the radioctive city.

Sketch Page Sneak Peak

this may (or may not!) make it into a industry related publication soon. 

I'll post the full thing when it (or doesn't) gets printed.

Carson of Venus

I'd have loved to do something for John Carter of Mars, maybe next time...

One triangle headed brush one super soft paint brush SBPro.

(been in storyboarding madness this last week, 

will get back to the comic when that calms down a bit,

just needed to bang something out!)

MECHDOWN page 2!

MECHDOWN page 1!

 I should maybe stick this over on the old BombDoctor page...