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Friday, January 14, 2011

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Drizzt

A friend of mine is a big Drizzt fan and asked me ages ago to draw a picture of the heroic dark elf. He's been doing me a lot of favors lately so I figured I owed him.

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Around Halloween I got a new sketchbook. I was desperately needing something different after using essentially the same size and kind of sketchbook for years. I wanted something wirebound with non-white paper so I could work in both the darker and lighter values. They didn't seem like unreasonable or obscure expectations for a sketchbook but it took a surprising amount of time and research to find what I was looking for. I eventually found this book which I've been loving (it's even eco-friendly for all you hippies out there). The white highlights are done with one of those gel pens and the rest of the sketch is my stalwart Zebra ball point pen. It feels so good to be sketching again on a regular basis.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Maria Wiegenlied

Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Simple Nativity

Another one done for my sister.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

A Right Jolly Old Elf

A quick painting for my sister.

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

King's Vineyard

This is another, much less digital, game I did some art for. Designed by a few of my coworkers, Sandeep Karkhar and Dave Haslam, it features some clever mechanics. Working with Mayday Games was great, this project was a little different from anything I've done before and they were very patient. Ultimately I'm quite happy with the final product which you can find out more about here.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Epic Mickey

No, I did not paint this

I've spent the majority of this year working on a video game called Epic Mickey which is out today. I worked on the environment art for a several levels but spent most of my time on a few of the boss fights. In some ways it was a dream project for a Disney geek like me to recreate stuff from the movies and parks. It was fun because the art, for some clever story reasons, was meant to be inspired by the Disney stuff but not exactly match it. So I was able to help create (with the help of other talented artists both here in Salt Lake City and Austin, TX) a dark, twisted version of Hook's Jolly Roger and a Tron version of Space Mountain.

The game includes its own version of the Haunted Mansion (called the Lonesome Manor). There was no way I was going to not work on that (Haunted Mansion is my favorite Disneyland ride), so I muscled my way into it where I could, ultimately helping to render the ballroom level and even do one of the long paintings for the stretching room. I also worked on an area modeled after New Orleans Square. It was a cool project and I'm excited to see it released, It's exclusive to the Wii, you can see the trailer here.