The Carcass - Speedpaint Demo

My demo painting from the Industry Workshops demo day... in the first hour I had no idea what I am doing, but I think it turned out sort of okay at the end. Make sure you join us later this year for the full-on workshop, where I am going to do lectures on world building and story driven environment and key-frame design. :) More info at http://www.industryworkshops.co.uk/

Stone Giant

Long time again... Beside all the NDA stuff here is a fairly rough piece done for an article in ImagineFx I can show...

Announcing Stretch Goal 15K!

As we passed our first stretch goal this morning, its time to announce our next one!

In case we reach the 15k mark, I will do two 3 hours long super special LIVE sessions exclusively for pledgers and you can choose what you would like to see!

Pick your two favourite from the following topics!

- Environment Design for Movies and Games (Interior, 3d/2d)

- Environment Design for Movies and Games (Exterior or Landscape, 3d/2d)

- Environment Lighting Design (2d)

- Matte Painting Basics (2d)

- Character Design - Designing Personality (Portrait, 3d/2d)

- Character Illustration in Dynamic Pose (2d)

- Full-body Character / Costume Design for Movies and Games (2d)

- Stylised Character Design (2d)

- Creature Design - Designing Personality (Portrait, 3d/2d)

- Fantasy Creature Design (3d/2d)

- Scifi Creature Design (3d/2d)

- Stylised Creature Design (2d)

(Voting poll will appear soon on Facebook and ITS ART)

You did not pledge yet, but would like to get your hands on the book? You only have three days till the end of the campaign, so be quick! ;) > Behind the Pixels <

 

Behind the Pixels LIVE 06 > Vehicle Design

I am still waiting for an engineer to come out and fix my broadband, so I decided to go and record the next session offline again instead of facing the speed-drops and disconnections. I am covering the basics of vehicle design starting with really rough sketches, then moving to fine lineart and coloring / finishing in a bit more than 2 hours. This is the final image of the demo as a teaser and going to upload the video tonight / tomorrow.
Interested in concept art and digital painting? Support my tutorial artbook! > Behind the Pixels <

Announcing Stretch Goal 12.5K!

As we are getting close to hit the 90% mark, we decided to introduce our first stretch goal!

If we are lucky enough to get more support than we originally planned, we are going to give the following extras to our pledgers:

- More content! Yay! Extending the book with an extra 30+ pages!

- A full length uncompressed HD tutorial covering the whole process described in the book through one complex marketing image created from scratch!

Interested in concept art and digital painting? Support the tutorial artbook! > Behind the Pixels < 

Alien Pilot - Speedsculpt

Creature design from the last Behind the Pixels LIVE! session. Unfortunately I had to finish the session offline because of broadband problems, but recorded the whole process, what I am going to post to the livestream channel later today.

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Behind the Pixels LIVE! 05 - 3D / 2D Creature Design

You don`t have anything to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon? You live in the States and want to watch something arty with your morning coffee? Interested in how to create presentation-ready realistic creatures for movies and games using ZBrush and Photoshop? Join me at my next livestream session tomorrow afternoon! :)
Start > 4PM (BST, thats GMT+1) / 11AM (EDT)

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Introducing Digital Book Lover Pledge!

I got a lot of requests from people about buying only the digital content, so we introduced a new pledge recently including ALL digital content done for the book and during the campaign. This includes the pdf version of the book, 15+ hours of HD video tutorials recorded during the livestream sessions, all LIVE workfiles in psd, brushset used in the demos and more! ;)
Interested? Support the campaign > Behind the Pixels <

Cyberpunk Vagabond - Speedpainting

Result of today's Behind the Pixels LIVE! session... you can check out the recorded video at the even page > HERE < and more than welcome to tune in next Sunday! :)
Interested in concept art and digital painting? Support my tutorial artbook! > Behind the Pixels <

Behind the Pixels LIVE! - 04 Character Design

You don`t have anything to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon? You live in the States and want to watch something arty with your morning coffee? Interested in how to create realistic characters for movies and games? Join me at my next livestream session tomorrow afternoon! :)
Start > 4PM (BST, thats GMT+1) / 11AM (EDT)

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Post-Apocaliptic Medicine Man

2d/3d rough character design for an article in ImagineFx...
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Snow Squad - Speedpainting

Result of today's Behind the Pixels LIVE! session... you can check out the recorded video at the even page > HERE < and more than welcome to tune in next Sunday! :)
Interested in concept art and digital painting? Support my tutorial artbook! > Behind the Pixels <  

Behind the Pixels LIVE! - 03 Photo-based Concepting

You don`t have anything to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon? You live in the States and want to watch something arty with your morning coffee? Interested in how to make realistic concepts for movies and games? Join me at my next livestream session tomorrow afternoon! :)
Start > 4PM (BST, thats GMT+1) / 11AM (EDT)

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Lava Harvest - Speedpainting

Result of today's Behind the Pixels LIVE! session... you can check out the recorded video at the even page > HERE < and more than welcome to tune in next Sunday! :)
Interested in concept art and digital painting? Support my tutorial artbook! > Behind the Pixels <   

...and the first quick thumbnails I started with:

Behind the Pixels LIVE! - 02 Environment Speedpainting

You don`t have anything to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon? You live in the States and want to watch something arty with your morning coffee? Interested in digital speedpainting techniques and how to develop your thumbnails further? Join me at my next livestream session tomorrow afternoon! :)
Start > 4PM (BST, thats GMT+1) / 11AM (EDT)

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Swamp Mechs - Speedpainting

Result of the first Behind the Pixels LIVE! sessions... you can check out the recorded video at the even page > HERE < and more than welcome to tune in next Sunday! :)

 ...and the thumbnails / silhouettes I started with:

Behind the Pixels LIVE!

I am starting a live streaming session tomorrow covering different digital painting and concept art techniques. Tune in, if you don`t have anything to do on a lazy Sunday and would like to watch me paint and listen how I mumble with my weird accent... :D Start: 4PM (GMT+1) / 11AM (EDT)

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Assassin - Speedpainting

Quick demo from my archives, done for an ImagineFx last year to show how to set up dynamic movement / poses...

Castle Gate

Environment piece done for an article for ImagineFx mag last year... I am super terrible with keeping a track on these, I think it was in issue 107 a couple of months ago...

House of the Old Witch - Color Variations

Done as a quick demo for my students to show how you can achieve different moods from the same concept with simply altering the color palette of the piece. (open in new tab for full res)