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I’m working on a series right now that’s more oriented towards children, as I want to put together a promotional flier with some examples of children’s illustration. This one is called the Frog King:
You can see it full size at my gallery site here.
Tags: fantasy, My Artwork
Well, it’s been a while, but I finished a new piece.
Pretty simple in concept, just a couple of kids at the edge of a spooky forest. I wanted to do a “fairytale” scene on the dark side, so here it is:
I added lots of creepy-crawlies into the woods at various places.
You can see the larger [...]
Somebody at work posted a link to this video, and I think it’s pretty awesome.
World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
The live action was shot in a day, and then about 2 years was spent in post production. (!)
Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based in Kansas City.
Tags: videos
Just finished a new piece for my Science Fiction gallery. This one is called “Bitter Reconnaissance”.
The story behind the image:
My wife was coming home one night in a nasty blizzard and made it almost all the way home, but got the Jeep stuck in some snowdrifts that had blown across the road near our house. [...]
If you work as a games artist, odds are good that you get questions about the industry, whether it’s people that want to get into it themselves, or because they’re just curious. I’ve been meaning for some time to write an article about the whole process of getting into the game art biz, and finally [...]
So I’m looking forward to the upcoming MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.
I don’t really have much time to play online games, so I kind of dabble with them for a while when a new one comes out. I tried Age of Conan for a bit when it first came out…I liked some things about [...]
Well whaddya know? I actually finished a new piece of artwork! Will wonders never cease. This one is called “Angel of Death”. I’ve always been intrigued by that name, since it’s sort of a “juxtaposition of the incongruous” and I’m fascinated by such things. The term “Angel” is usually a positive, uplifting, light kind of [...]
Okay, well it didn’t just ship, it’s been out there for a couple of weeks now I think, but the important thing is that it’s on the store shelves now. It’s what I’ve been working on for the last year or so, and it’s always good to see something you’ve worked on out in the [...]
I worked on lighting some of the levels for the Playstation 3 game Resistance: Fall of Man by Insomniac Games.
I decided to put together an article about the impact lighting has for contributing to mood and realism. It’s basically a series of before and after screenshots, along with some commentary about lighting in general.
It’s in [...]
A few weeks back, my son Casey was having art class and the topic was Graphic Arts. Casey mentioned that was what I did for a living, and the class took a look at my gallery website.
Mrs. Foree is the Art teacher at Spring Creek Elementary, and she thought it might be nice if I [...]
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