A couple years ago I worked on this cool little adventure game/technology demonstrator called Titan. I was mainly doing character design work and I only worked on it part time, as I was also working full time at NLG/Nintendo. It was a fun little project…and the design freedom was a great balance to the more rigid confines of the Nintendo work. Unfortunately after several months the cheques stopped coming in and emails went unanswered…….and I was done. From what I heard the whole project collapsed several months later. It was a shame……I would have loved to have designed more of those robots! Anyways, here are a few pieces, and a larger selection of the work can be seen here.
GALAKTIKA #364
“The Cocoon”, another piece from my series EK2 - The Lost Years was used as a cover image on issue #364 (Jun. 2020) of sci-fi magazine Galaktika. As with the last cover, the image was use on both the standard size and the larger "XL" edition.
Thanks again to Réka at Galaktika and Metropolis Media.
GALAKTIKA
“The Navigator”, a new piece from my series EK2 - The Lost Years was used on the cover of issue #358 (Jan. 2020) of long running Hungarian sci-fi magazine Galaktika. The image was use on both the standard size issue and the larger "XL" edition.
Thanks to Réka at Galaktika and Metropolis Media.
CYRUS LONGBONES BOOK 3 COVER WRAP
Cover art for the final book in Jeremy Mathiesen's great swashbuckling Cyrus Longbones trilogy! A full wrap image was created for the print edition and the front cover was re-puposed for the ebook and audio book versions.
Published by Viking House Publishing. Thanks to Jeremy!
THE ROOKIES
I'll be participating on the judging panel again for this years edition of The Rookies, an international awards competition for artists, designers, animators and creators. Entries are now closed, having had to have been submitted by May 31st, 2019 (I’m late in posting this…..been too busy to keep up with posting this kind of thing!). Every year The Rookies hand out a bunch of great prizes and paid internships to some of the top studios in the field. If you missed it this year, keep an eye out for next year’s competition.
Winners are to be announced mid July 2019!
You can check it out at therookies.co
EK SERIES ART BOOK SOLD OUT
My first art book is out of print! My publisher, Design Studio Press, has sold all their copies. There are a still a few new and used copies kicking around on a couple Amazon sites and there may be some available at different book retailers, but that is it. Japanese publisher Born Digital bought the rights to this book, so they may still have some of the Japanese language softcover edition in stock, and may publish more in the future, but the English hardcover edition is out of stock.
Thanks to everyone that bought a copy of the book, and a special thanks to all that purchased signed copies from me personally as well.
I’ll have to get started on the next one……
DUCHESS SHIPPING!
I’m a little late posting this…(too much going on these days)….but first edition Duchess kits are out! Thanks to Michael at Industria Mechanika and Gene Campbell for making an awesome sculpt of the design. Plus, thanks to everyone that bought this huge kit!. Happy building!
Second edition Duchess kits are available for pre-orders here.
DUCHESS MODEL KIT AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
The Duchess is now available for pre-order from Industria Mechanika! This 1/6th scale resin kit was designed as a companion to the popular Dystopic kit. Amazingly sculpted by Gene Campbell! Shipping March/April 2019.
DYSTOPIC PRE-ORDER
Another edition of Dystopic model kits are being released and are available for pre-order at Industria Mechanika.
Available at the IMech shop here.
Shipping February 2019.
Here is a link to build of this kit from Tested a few years back.
HALO
Even though I’m slammed with concept design work on 2 different projects with 2 different companies (plus the occasional 3rd contract in the mix…), along with kids and other family priorities, I do still manage to get a personal piece in there once in awhile. Here is a new(er) one I found some time to finish off.
Higher res. and additional images on my Art Station page here.
While I’d like to spend more time on this stuff, it will have to stay on life support at the moment….
Enjoy!
DUCHESS MASTER PRINT
Couple shots of the Duchess master print ......showing off Gene Campbell's amazing sculpting work. This one turned out great. 3D printing of the master sculpt was once again handled by Des at Ownage.
Coming soon from Industria Mechanika! I’ll post the dates once I get them from Michael at Industria.
ADAM SAVAGE vs. BOOTLEGGERS....
Here is a link to a nice reminder by Adam Savage of Tested/Mythbusters fame, on the problem of recasting. I've posted about this issue before and Adam hits all the points perfectly. Thanks to Adam for picking up another kit! Here is the link!
EK COSMONAUT SERIES BACK IN STOCK
The 3 kits of the EK Cosmonaut Series are back in stock at Industria Mechanika! Expertly sculpted by Gene Campbell these 1/8th scale kits feature cast resin parts, metal wires and decals. The perfect addition to the more adventurous modeller's display case!
As I mentioned in a previous post, the 1/6th scale Dystopic kits are also back in stock.
Get them at the IMech shop here!
THE ROOKIES
I'm going to be on the judging panel again for The Rookies, a yearly international awards competition for student artists, designers, animators, creators, etc. Every year they hand out a bunch of great prizes and paid internships.
Entries for the 2018 competition are now closed, by you can check out some of the amazing entries at: therookies.co
Given the large amount of interest and applications to the competition this year judging has been pushed back a couple weeks, but winners should be announced in mid July.
DUCHESS UPDATE
A few shots of the Duchess sculpt....highlighting Gene Cambell's great work on the modelling. We had a few delays during the the production of this one but the sculpt is finished and the kit is in printing/production with Industria Mechanika.
This kit will be a companion to the Dystopic kit......sharing the same, large 1/6th scale.
Will post updates, release dates, etc. in the near future!
DYSTOPIC
The Dystopic model kit is back in stock at Industria Mechanika! 1/6 scale resin with etched metal parts, metal wires, decals, and high quality casting. The real thing....not that bootlegged garbage!
Sculpted by Gene Campbell.
Get one at the IMech shop here.
TUF VOYAGING
My illustration of Haviland Tuf, George R. R. Martin's cat loving space adventurer, has been licensed for the cover of the new Spanish language edition of "Tuf Voyaging"! I did this illustration a few years ago for Wired Magazine (for an article regarding the publication of a new edition of Tuf Voyaging for the English market), so it is cool to see it used again. The book is available now and published by Nova/Penguin Random House.
Thanks to Joana Lopez at Penguin Random House.
Book display at the Libreria Gigimesh in Barcelona, Spain.
GRAFFICA INTERVIEW
Life has been pretty chaotic for me so far this year, so I'm catching up on some older news...but here is an interview I did a few months back with Spanish design/illustration magazine Gràffica.
We discuss how I got into art, my career path, working with Nintendo and Microsoft and the EK Series.
Anyways, check it out here. I hope you can read Spanish!
Thanks to Alicia Juan and Graffica!
UNHOLINESS ARRIVES BY SATELLITE
I recently became involved in a project that requires/affords me the opportunity to dive back into my Entartete Kunst work to create a few pieces that, for various reasons, I had omitted from the first series. This is the first one that i have finished...and I won't get into any details regarding the project here, but there are a few more new EK images coming down the pipe in the near future.
Enjoy!
FURIOUS....no not really...
Over the past couple years I've helped out on Anki Overdrive with character design and illustration. Earlier this year I was asked to work on their Fast & Furious cross over...again with character design and illustration. Working on film related projects can be bit tricky...as you have to jump through many levels of approval: internal developer approval, production studio approval, the I.P. holder approval and then the actors themselves. But I've worked on other film related projects in the past, so I know the drill. Things went fairly smoothly, but there were a few hick ups along the way, with the scope of the work being cut back, the Anki art director being replaced half way through the project and a few scheduling issues. But in the end, the work was finished and was given over to Anki. Fast forward a few months to release and I see that the characters that I had done have been changed - painted over and modified with body parts skewed and scaled. It was disappointing to see. But you can't get too upset as these things. At the end of the day it is their property so they do as they wish and the new versions must have been approved by Universal and the actors.....so I guess everyone else is happy with it. That is the way it goes....
Anyways, here are my originals.....
