Ancient Peaks

Ancient Peaks practice matte painting... frigid mountain peaks with a lonely green tree. In real life i doubt this is even possible but i thought it would look interesting especially with such a lush green.

Forest Practice

Some matte painting practice...

Water for Mars

Weekend Painting practice, was listening to an album by the same name and watched Total Recall recently. Inspired by the red planet to knock this out.

Demo Reel

Just finished up my new Demo Reel, took some time to get the parallax going on some of my older paintings that i merged layers for. Been a good habit of mine lately to work non-destructively.

Indoor Light and Materials Study

Sometimes I have to paint some mundane everyday kind of things, sadly its not always space ships explosions and alien worlds in this field...

that said i decided to practice on a regular simple living room concept with different lighting scenarios and apply different techniques I have learned lately. It was good practice and still fun rendering things out and studying the materials and what not.

Lately I have been doing a lot of large scenic type paintings so I think i am going to do a few indoor paintings for some practice in my free time now.. definitely a sci-fi one next

Modo Fire Extinguisher practice

first 3D model made in Modo and rendered out in Keyshot for practice. Love Modo's artist friendly UI and it is excellent for making fast models to use in my work and ties nicely with Keyshots simple UI and workflow.

I plan on using these techniques to help in my vehicle paintings and interior paintings for my 2D art in Photoshop. Hopefully it will be a huge help in the long run for my paintings and matte paintings in the future.

Excelsior Station

Mountain top station near the edge of the stratosphere on the highest peaks of Tycho-35G ...

fun sci-fi painting using different techniques and software, might do some basic animations for it in After Effects later

Which way to Hwt-ka-Ptah -- Animation practice

Personal painting i got to do some animation for in After Effects, had fun with this one and really like how it turned out in the end with music and animation, feel like it tells a good story. More Later

2 quick sketch studies

Need to do these more often.. about one hour each...trying out some newer textured and painterly brushes and simplifying shapes for these studies

Misty Mountains

Some more practice with compositing etc just something quick and not too complicated

African Sunset

Sunset piece I made for fun just playing around and testing a few techniques. I had no idea where i was going with this but i saw a clip of the lion king and it hit me right there and then to turn this into a safari sunset... giraffe and all. More later

Grassy Valley Camera Mapping Practice

Heres another more complicated animation i did this week with a personal piece of mine. Good practice animating the clouds etc. If anyones interested i will put up another jpeg with the process shots. More soon

Camera Mapping Practice with Process

Heres a painting i ended up doing some animation/camera mapping to for practice. I included the process for people interested in my work flow. Hopefully get faster and faster at it and do this more often to my personal paintings

Older Stuff

Some different matte painting plates that never got used and another forest from awhile back along with an older stage design for a Kylie Minogue show.

Alien Bust

Some random practice piece trying out different things. A a tad of Zbrush + 3Dsmax + Keyshot + Photoshop. It was neat using all the different programs to setup a kind of work flow and play around with them. More later

Other Lives - For 12 Music Video

The project finally finished that i got to do some matte painting work on and it feels great to see it all in motion. Just want to thank everyone for the great work and how it all came together for this awesome video and Nick Davidge for getting me in this project and the band for the awesome soundtrack. Had lots of fun painting the a desolate mars

Indigo Blues

Some personal environment painting trying out some things and playing with some weird organic structure shapes

Oneill Cylinder

This painting was really fun freelance project of a sci-fi cityscape floating around on giant panels, had to do a little research on what an Oneill Cylinder was because I never heard of it and I am a huge fan of sci-fi. Love getting lost in these worlds.

Updates

Heres a painting i got to do that was looser than the usual so it was a lot of fun and not so labor intensive as matte painting, few progress shots for those interested in the process hopefully update with a few new mattes soon

sci-fi goodness

some sci-fi fun, really had fun painting the blade runner inspired cityscape. Always wanted to do one of those! Had fun with the other quick space beach scene also, how i imagine Zegema beach catching space halibut off shore..