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ComicCon 2009 entry

2009-08-09T04:59:00.000-07:00

aaaand, the finished base for my comiccon 2009 entry. tried to balance j scott campbell style with 'real anatomy.' Now for then fun part of costume accessories and hair!

Dattebayo! part 2

2008-08-27T20:22:00.000-07:00

except for some 10 filler eps i'm up to date on naruto, spending that much time with a character makes avoiding some fan art impossible. done during breaks from working on some 3d stuff which i'll be posting up later. a bit cheerier looking that my last post but i'm still working through a lot of stuff and thought something like this might help.. a bit (i'm missing you a -lot- please come back)

like this

2008-08-26T16:51:00.001-07:00

ever feel like this...

Dattebayo!

2008-08-18T21:56:00.001-07:00

updates and stuff

2008-07-19T17:23:00.000-07:00

worked some more on that shambler design, I felt I had to pop his legs out, and I also have a design that I did for the class i'm teaching and some zbrush stuff.

shambler redesign

2008-07-13T03:24:00.001-07:00

redesign of the shambler from quake, still working on it so any suggestions would be awesome!

cheers,
frank

polished sketches

2008-06-08T17:22:00.000-07:00

a couple sketches that i took a little bit further to post.. my shoulder is a mess right now so i can't go for very long at one time.

young warrior

2008-05-30T20:27:00.001-07:00

done during render and sim times at work over a week for an imaginefx competition. some things still bug me about it, but times is up :)

update: did another one with zbrush painter and photoshop, it's a hollow death mask. I've been watching Bleach lately.

shark...dog??

2008-05-06T18:03:00.000-07:00

storyboards

2008-04-24T21:28:00.000-07:00

i'm going to storyboard some movie sequences, but my take on them. so right now i'm getting some shorthand for drawing a few different actors. -philip seymour hoffman first.

oh, and in employment news, i'm doing fx for pinata for the next nine weeks. smoke, dust, fire, explosions, confetti, shards of stuff flying around.. only been 4 days so far but it's really fun.

creature

2008-04-19T18:22:00.000-07:00

Creature thumbnail, rich doble styles.

more landscapes

2008-04-15T16:08:00.001-07:00

work in progress and final.

-

2008-04-02T16:44:00.000-07:00

-update: sketch done before lunch today.

speedie

2008-03-23T16:44:00.000-07:00

got a backlog of these i haven't uploaded, this is just the most recent.

pinup

2008-03-21T17:04:00.000-07:00

I never do these, so i figured it's time..

space base

2008-02-16T18:14:00.000-08:00

a small advance military outpost concept.

self portrait

2008-02-14T23:36:00.001-08:00

not quite finished, i'll go back in a few days with fresh eyes.

sundays enviro

2008-02-10T15:17:00.001-08:00

sundays enviro

wednesday speed landscape

2008-02-06T18:14:00.001-08:00

wednesday speed landscape - saw some cartooney shapes and ran with it.

todays speedie

2008-02-04T18:14:00.000-08:00

today's speedie done during lunch at work this time.

some recent stuff.

2008-02-03T22:43:00.000-08:00

Recent stuff and photos from Revelations 2008.

2008-01-13T22:52:00.000-08:00

Click here for photos and memories from the seattle conceptart workshop - Revelations.

Here's a few things from the last week or so. mostly thumbnails and works in progress.

-value/light study

going to work on this one now actually..

quick enviro thumbnail done at the workshop.

this is way more paint than photo..

Spaceship design thumbs

Enders Shadow

2007-12-23T17:14:00.000-08:00

been reading through the enders shadow series again, I'm going to try to do a design for each of the characters. Here's achilles flandres.

Happy Holidays!

2007-12-23T01:55:00.001-08:00

Sunday

2007-12-16T19:05:00.000-08:00

bebop

2007-12-15T21:48:00.000-08:00

It's that time of the year when I watch one of my favourite shows again.

weekend update

2007-12-02T22:04:00.000-08:00

Had a very short attention span this weekend so nothing finished, just a couple studies and a bit of touch up work on an old drawing.

small dump

2007-11-20T00:19:00.000-08:00

here's a few recent.. mostly painter and a little photoshop.

cheers, Frank

quickie

2007-11-06T00:17:00.000-08:00

metal gear update.

2007-11-01T23:37:00.001-07:00

still got a ways to go :)

boo

2007-10-26T18:45:00.001-07:00

have a good one <3

Metal gear solid

2007-10-18T23:45:00.000-07:00

Snake, post metal gear 2 I guess... Definitely long before the geriatric snake featured in mgs4. Going to do something with this.. like paint it.

another cutie

2007-09-27T16:03:00.001-07:00

girl

2007-09-24T17:31:00.001-07:00

just a hottie done while I should have been working, not really my style but I was digging the clean lines I was getting.

work

2007-08-18T22:20:00.001-07:00

almost done this 7 days/week extravaganza.... phew

a couple quickies done at work today.

stuffs

2007-07-29T13:15:00.000-07:00

Couple cintiq quickies done over lunch break on the weekend.
I've been working 7 days a week for the last month to accommodate teaching maya and photoshop at cap college and still keeping my regular job. The teaching has been very rewarding and well worth the loss of weekends. Just one more month left though. Can't wait to see how some my students final work turns out.. seems like each new year keeps getting better.

long weekend

2007-07-02T18:17:00.001-07:00

long weekend quickie drawing.

bored at work doodles

2007-06-08T16:12:00.000-07:00

talking with a buddy about the sheridan design look at lunch today, then after I got bored and started doodling. the bottom one is from the day before... haha

rawr

2007-06-02T21:44:00.000-07:00

Shelving this one for now, here's some maya viewport renders.

Next up, Manji from Blade of the Immortal!

a little update

2007-05-14T23:43:00.000-07:00

little update on the orc, deviating from the picture all over, but it's my first mudbox and the sketch is just that, a sketch. still only about medium detail.

cheers,
Frank

orc

2007-05-05T19:14:00.000-07:00

some quick concepts for a character i'm going to do in 3d.

Hector

2007-03-21T19:25:00.000-07:00

Continuing with the Greek theme.

300

2007-03-19T18:26:00.000-07:00

Saw the movie opening night but just got around to this now.

Cheers,
Frank

game assets

2007-03-11T22:21:00.000-07:00

Just practice texturing on flat grids. 512 normal/diffuse/spec.

horsey!

2007-03-08T18:03:00.000-08:00

horsey!

game model weapon

2007-03-02T19:54:00.000-08:00

Based off some cool African weapons I saw in a book. It was for a competition that I missed the deadline for - Pinata and apartment reno's win the battle for my time. 240 triangles, all viewport captures from inside maya.

Chop chop

2007-01-21T14:28:00.000-08:00

It's an Axe... more a test for texturing for 3d but oh well. All photoshop.

I've moved onto modelling sets for Pinata and I've been doing some freelance as well. Enough to keep me too busy to work on my own things. We'll see if that changes :)

Merry Christmas

2006-12-24T14:21:00.000-08:00

Imp

2006-10-31T10:00:00.000-08:00

These guys look like fun to animate, so I'm going to make a lower poly game style model of one. Good practice all-round.

photo phun

2006-10-02T20:24:00.000-07:00

Two of the fine fellows I work with, and myself underneath that. I look like I just realized I've got a cold (oh wait...) :\ ...and some pics from a recent trip to the aquarium. Doing some detailing work on a few things in Zbrush right now, i'll post them up when they're ready.

update

2006-09-23T18:22:00.000-07:00

little progress update on the head model :)

2006-09-20T21:47:00.000-07:00

speed paint from reference... there could be a game of guess the reference here :D

some stuff

2006-09-19T00:27:00.000-07:00

Above are a couple quick sketches... One's a fanart for disgaea2, the first ps2 game I've bought in about a year. It brings back fond memories of final fantasy tactics, just without the story or production values.(i've never really done any anime stuff)

Viva Pinata

2006-09-03T01:24:00.000-07:00

Here's some things about the show i've been working on.. it's based off a Rare/Microsoft game that's coming out in the fall for the xbox 360. The show also launches in september on Fox kids and YTV. I'm really impressed with the quality from everyone that I've had the privilege of working with on this show. They are great people that put a lot of care into their craft and are damn fun to be in a studio with.

Here are two episodes available from gametrailers.com in small (82mb) or HD (240somethingMB). Enjoy them, I sure do.

Episode 1 (regular)
Episode 1 (HD)

Episode 2 (regular)
Episode 2 (HD)

bebop!

2006-08-28T21:06:00.000-07:00

Quick tribute to a favourite character of mine... Also testing colouring lines, in retrospect it probably would have gone better if I didn't use a pen sketch that I did at 1 in the morning.

updated layout!

2006-08-26T14:58:00.000-07:00

My stuff, studies, scribbles and w.e got scanned out my sketchbook from the last few weeks. Been keeping myself very busy with work lately and working 6 days/week for the last month. I think i'll take this weekend off.

-updated layout / links =) ...the links are in progress but this is what I could get done this morning.

**update: did a speedpaint over one of the sketches**

Sah-weeet!!

2006-08-19T12:13:00.000-07:00

Fosters Season one on iTunes!

Before a dvd even, but that means it's on it's way soon :)

sketching when I can't be working...

2006-08-13T17:40:00.000-07:00

The network at work on sunday... I know, sunday... was kind enough to go down for 20mins to let me steal a cintiq and sketch this. (added some quick colours in cs2 at home)

more oily goodness

2006-08-02T22:13:00.000-07:00

same movie, new scene... this is my second full colour landscape and um.. fifth oil painting (first 3 were with real oils in high school.. a feeeew years back now.)

Oils

2006-07-31T23:50:00.000-07:00

Quickie in oils (virtual oils) ...makes me actually want to paint again but this is a far less messy substitute. Guess what movie this scene is from (it's without a figure)

best wishes!

2006-07-30T19:21:00.000-07:00

Artrage is fun! and the trial version is free. It's like painter that was designed with a GUI for artists... I've just been playing around in it quickly today.

Last but not least!

Love you! have a great year!!

studies and stuffs

2006-07-18T00:25:00.000-07:00

trying to return to the way I usually draw stuff... ooh! and got a new sketchbook. (thx tula!)
got the firefly soundtrack today.. and i'm sifting through a ton of music my gf gave me, very enjoyable. Loving all the yoko kanno right now. =)

couldn't resist doing the weatherman from fosters.. 'showers in spokane... shpooh-khaaan'

Said I might...

2006-06-30T21:02:00.000-07:00

...and here it is

something sort of finished.

2006-06-28T20:57:00.000-07:00

with <3 to sechrist and rhodes. Top right is Dennis of Punt and Dennis - BBC radio 4 funnymen. Bottom left is my buddy Colburn with incredible supportless glasses.
May colour the bottom sloucher at some point.

heads

2006-06-21T00:13:00.000-07:00

More heads done on transit... bodies will follow, once I get my own Igor.

all the real beauties are done in my notepad at work... during meetings. perhaps I'll scan it, if I ever stop leaving it lying around.

I have no mind of my own... wheee!

2006-06-05T21:49:00.000-07:00

a few drawn while watching fosters, I just love those designs. few on the seabus. few total ripoffs... not too original lately, but I can't stop doodling =)

colah!

2006-05-29T22:16:00.000-07:00

coloured the guy.. that's uh, sitting.
-one layer, except for the overlay
whatcha think?

recent things

2006-05-27T15:46:00.000-07:00

Here's some recent sketches.. most of it right in photoshop, my sketchbook and I aren't on speaking terms right now.

All I have to say about the last one is... uh. ...when posing characters in 3d, what looks right from one angle might not look the same from another. Of course I already knew that, I just chose to ignore it. :D

2006-05-09T03:09:00.000-07:00

There's more stuff over on my livejournal but i'll try and keep these both going.

-> My Livejournal