Poster concepts: Dead of Summer

A series of poster concept sketches for the show Dead of Summer. 

#deadofsummerTV #robotrumpus

self portrait

Another self-portrait demo for my painting class at Gnomon.

#Gnomon #gnomonschool #robotrumpus

Art show pictures

Some pictures from our gallery show at Cinema Camera Rentals, featuring matte paintings and concept art from a variety of projects.

#robotrumpus

digital oil demo

Demo portrait from my class at #Gnomon

Self portrait demo

A self portrait demo I did with Photoshop and a mirror for my painting class at Gnomon School. 

#robotrumpus #Gnomon #digitalpainting 

Shannara Chronicles: Sheep matte painting

 

A 2.5-D matte painting from The Shannara Chronicles, with a bunch of disemboweled sheep. What made this shot unique was that it was mostly hand-painted, without any CG assistance. It's a bit of an old-school analog matte painting technique,  rare in modern VFX, and a service we offer. It can often "feel" more realistic than CG,  while being much more economical to create.

See it in motion on our reel.

#shannara #mattepainting #robotrumpus

Gnomon Still Life

A new still life painting demo from my class at Gnomon School.
#Gnomon #digitalpainting #robotrumpus

Concept Art from The Shannara Chronicles

Some concept art from The Shannara Chronicles from Robot Rumpus and Shutterpunch.

Some early concept for the Changeling, although the final design looked quite different. Originally, it was supposed to look more "fishy," and it ended up being more "goopy." 

..and some environment concepts...

#shannara #robotrumpus #conceptart #vfx

Into the Badlands: The Temple

The steampunk temple we designed for Into The Badlands, episode 6... a fusion of a cathedral and an oil refinery. 

We composited the temple directly over the Griffith Observatory, using the existing building for blocking and eye-line purposes. 

The Sanctuary

Our matte painting of the Sanctuary from Into the Badlands, adding age and overgrowth to an existing building.

#intothebadlands #mattepainting

Into the Badlands

 AMC debuted its latest series last night with help from the VFX artist Jason Dunn and his colleagues at ShutterPunch VFX. The new series is AMC second foray into genre fiction. The series takes place in a not-too-distant dystopian future. The subtle art of VFX matte painting transformed idyllic southern Louisiana landscapes into the supernatural world of the Badlands.   

#intothebadlands #mattepainting

Pumpkin still life

Still life with shoes

A demo from my class at Gnomon.
Thanks to my wife for lending her cool Star Wars shoes!

Western theme sketch

Another life sketch from #thedrawingclub. 

Model: Lauren Anette

London matte painting

detail vew

 A matte painting I did from Turn:Washington's Spies, produced for FuseFX.  A hybrid of paint and photo-stitching,  painted in Photoshop and projected in Nuke.  I studied period maps of 18th century London to work out the floor plan.

original concept sketch

It started as a series of rough sketches for approvals, and then I gradually refined it over a couple of weeks.

  

The final matte painting was separated into depth layers and comped in Nuke.

Final comp

Johnny Ashcan

Life sketch from the drawing club. Model: John Mackey

#thedrawingclub

Andrew Wyeth theme portrait

From The Drawing Club,  another three hour life painting.
Model:Peggy Moore.

http://www.thedrawingclub.com/workshop/andrew-wyeth-theme-photo-and-artwork/

#thedrawingclub

Drawing Club portrait

3-hour digital portrait of model Daniella Traub at the Drawing Club.
#thedrawingclub

Gnomon self portrait

self portrait demo from a mirror in Photoshop. This is from week 5 of my painting class at Gnomon.

West Point matte painting

A matte painting and comp of West Point I did recently for the Amazon Civil War drama Point of Honor  at Fuse FX.  What makes this shot unique is that we integrated parts of antique photos by Matthew Brady with modern photos of the West Point location.  The building was rebuilt years ago and looks completely different today, although the landscape looks the same.
 Using very high resolution scans of his photographs, I first retouched the scratches and dust, removed unwanted details, and then colorized them. I then blended them with photos of modern stone buildings. The final comp was projected in Nuke to add some slight 3-D parallax.