Gnomon painting class

Still life exercise from my digital painting class at Gnomon school!

concept art- Battle of Baltimore

Some concept frames for a bicentennial documentary about the War of 1812 and The Star Spangled Banner. VFX produced by Shutterpunch Visual Effects. Art direction by Jason Dunn. Coming this September!

General Chang

From a painting demo I did for my Gnomon class.

Luke's Jedi Council

 Luke returns to Dagobah, and rediscovers lost ancient ruins of Jedi temples. It is atop this site that he chooses to build the new Jedi temple, far from the political center of Coruscant, and close to its historical roots. It was these ruins he entered, unknowingly, when Yoda sent him to experience his first taste of the dark side in the cave.
Under the new temple, In this ancient place, Luke experiments with the dark side in an attempt to re-unify the two sides of the force. He does this under the guidance of Yoda and Anakin, as well as other long-dead Jedi.

Old Luke and Yoda

Old Luke Skywalker with his father's lightsaber, based on an idea by Patton Oswalt... 
Luke returns to Dagobah to explore the dark side and re-unify the force, under the supervision of Yoda. 

commercial boards: The Man Who Couldn't Slow Down

Some design boards for a Hennessy commercial spot,  telling the story of Malcolm Campbell, who broke speed records on land and water in 20s and 30s.

The final commercial can be seen here.

Hoth Holdiay card

Ghost Ship!

Here are some concepts for a ghost ship, for the pilot of The Originals. I sketched out several versions.

 And here is the final 2D matte painting. We moved the ship layer in the comp to make it move a little, and added warpers to the sails to make them drift.  The hull is also projected onto simple geometry to give it a little bit of 3D parallax.

Here is the final comp, by David Alexander.

"Twelve Stakes" book cover

This is a book cover I did for Twelve Stakes,  a supernatural noir detective series. This is the first book in the series, and is available here.

Video game environments

 

We designed the environments for a dance game on the X-Box Kinect and Wii, called Z-Kids, which consisted of six high-res photo-real levels of exotic locations.