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 <

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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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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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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Steampunk Pirates Ultra Pack on Gumroad!

I re-edited my Steampunk Pirates tutorial and also added all the workfiles plus brushes to this ultra pack. Oh, did I mention its still FREE? :)

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Free Video Tutorials!

Hey folks,

With all the buzz going around gumroad I decided to join the fun, though in a bit different way. I was already in the progress of creating a video tutorial site from the stuff I recorded in the past couple of years and I thought its a good time to kickstart this thing.

When I started with concept design and digital art there weren`t any tutorials, ca.org and sijun were the first forums and everybody was trying to just simply help each other. I had a really rocky road learning this whole thing without any help and I promised myself I am going to try to share the knowledge what I gathered through the years.

As I am making my money from the industry, I don`t feel I would need an extra revenue from my friends or other aspiring artists. I always believed in free sharing, so all my videos are free and they always will be.

I published around 20 videos now and another 15-20 is on its way, just have to find the time to edit them. My plan is to publish 1-2 every week from now on. And of course I am open to any subject / topic for future videos you would be interested in...

^^ CLICK! ^^

PACT Needs your support!

Okay, so I don`t really post about other stuff, but as a freelance artist / designer I really feel that our industry needs a site like this.

PACT means Professional Artist Client Toolkit and will be a tool to help freelance illustrators negotiate a better living wage for themselves.
Its all about sharing our experiences and information about the business side of the creative industry. Its made by the community for the community.

The guys behind PACT are really need your help to make this become reality. Just skip one beer tonight and toss that money into the jar... Let`s do this guys!

 > PACT on Indiegogo <

For more info watch this vid:

Steampunk Pirates!

I have done this image as a full workshop for ImagineFx magazine last year and as they just posted up the full video to their YouTube channel, I think I am allowed to show it here as well finally.

It was great fun to work on this one and get out of my comfort zone with doing a bit more cartoony image than my usual stuff... :)

...and heres the full process video with my weird voiceover on top:

Composition Sketches 08 Process Video

Screen capture from last week...

Composition Sketches 07 Process Video

Another screen record from Tuesday...

Composition Sketches Process Video 02

Another screen capture from last week...

Composition Sketches Process Video

Finally had some time to edit the video I recorded yesterday...

Origin - Animated Short

You guys remember all the animation backgrounds I posted recently? Now it is time to see all of them in action. As the full film went online today, I can finally share it here as well. :)
I have been doing some concept and vis dev work in the pre-production / pitch stage and painted most of the backgrounds. The short was nominated for Best Animation at IFTA 2012 and won the Best Animated Short at Blackrock Animation Festival 2012...

Hope you gonna like it and feel free to check out the Blog of the Movie and the Official Origin FB Page for more info. :)

Beside that I would also like to say a big thank you for Gaspar Gombos. He is not on the credit list unfortunately, but he helped me a lot in the background painting process during the crunch periods.
Make sure you check out his awesome blog here >>> GasparSkiccek <<< !!!

The Adventure - Painting Process Video

I finally had some time to edit this vid I recorded last week... about 40 mins compressed into 3.5-4 mins...
You can check out the final image HERE.

Fallen Tree - Animation Background Plates

Some of you guys asked me to post a break-up of the backdrop I posted yesterday, so I made this lil anim gif... (click for higher res)

Snowy Forest - Painting Process Video

Finally had the time to edit the video of the composition sketch from last week...

Cave of Giants - Process Video

Painting process of yesterday`s speedpainting...