Substrata

Wow my last post was in March!? Well as usual things have been busy, but I've been fitting in time here and there to work on this Art Book project called Substrata. It's being organized by the amazing Paul Richards of Darksiders and Halo 4 fame (among other things)

So basically it's a no holds barred collection of art and one of the entries was concept I feel in love with by Max Gon

It's like a bad ass Pokemon evolution of a tree nut. Anyway here is my early progress of the first stage: KNOT NUT

Hey Wolf Moon...

don't cast your spell on me!

So this is from a few months back. Polycount had a Dota 2 contest to create an armor set for one of their characters. My buddy Sirio and I decided to take a crack at the Lycanthrope. However due to life and work I never got around to finishing the textures, but I figured I'd post what I had up here anyway.

These are Sirio's concepts, seriously the dude is a bad ass! Check out his stuff! Sirio Brozzi

Here are my models, the gray model is not mine. That is provided by the fine artists at Valve Software!

The contest brief called for two levels of detail

I started sculpting the detail....

And realized that the little details I was putting into it wouldn't read from a distance...

Thats about as far as I got before I had to stop. Maybe someday I'll finish this. :)

First born of HIS Lieutenants...

It's no secret that Legacy of Kain is on of my favorite game franchises. I have done two previous fan pieces for these games

Graveyard

Kain

So this time I decided to do Raziel, when he is still a vampire as seen in this (still) bad ass intro

I'm not entirely crazy about it, but it was a fun night's work.

I based the sculpt off of this concept.

The Districts of Dustrum

New stuff! I've been chipping away at this for the past two weeks or so. An artist I REALLY admire Nick Carver did this concept of cool cut away (I am a sucker for isometric cutaways!) and I felt compelled to model it out. I was planing to texture it but what can I say... I'm lazy. :)

Anyway check out Nicks blog, it's full of amazing stuff! This is the concept

Concept by Nick Carver

Here is my interpretation of it. I changed up some proportions and shapes based on spatial relationships and inconsistencies in the concept (basically the distance between buildings).

And some detail shots.

Get BRUTAL!

A quick note! Brutal Legend is now available on Steam! For a steal too, if you pre-order it you can get it for 14.99 plus the Multiplayer Beta! This is one of the games I am most proud to work on, so give it a go!

Brutal Legend on Steam


And if you're curious here is a link to the assets I contributed to the game!
Brutal Assets!

Mega

Wow! Five months without a post! There are a lot of reasons, buying a new house, work, my computer dying! But now I'm equiped with a bad ass machine and my first 2013 resolution is going back to the basics... of zbrush. I'm currently working my way through a hard surface modeling dvd. One of the exercises in it is using Dynamesh in Zbrush as a concepting tool. I probably took this further than is needed but I was having fun. I didn't have any idea what this would be when I started and somewhere along the way he started to look like Mega Man. I'm cool with that.

The Tower Arcana

Just a quick note, I started a new blog to exclusively track progress on my personal project "The Tower Arcana". Check it out if so inclined.

The Tower Arcana