8/31/2014

Have some new work going up in the next few days! Also school starts Thursday but it’s not gonna slow down my vast amount of work I’m pumping out for clients!

Thesis – 8/28/2014

It’s the start of a new semester and I’m getting back to work on my thesis. I haven’t done much on it this summer but the amount of work I’ve done professionally has more than made up for it.

My project is based around character creation for a game I made up solely for the purposes of modeling some characters in a style I love. Basically, somewhere in the desert in a small town, aliens started an invasion. This was the perfect opportunity for Jack Sampson, my muscle bound failure of an 80’s actor to prove himself as an action star. He grabbed his weapons, ran out of his shitty apartment and looked for someone who could help him take down these bastards! Jack Sampson uses his superior strength, speed, and agility to maneuver the battlefield. He’s obsessed with guns but isn’t afraid to get into melee range to toss some alien scum.

Jack_Sampson

 

The first person he found that looked like he could hold his own against this intergalactic threat was Bubba Hendricks. This guy is HUGE, Bubba isn’t only a huge, incredibly strong hick, he’s a brilliant mechanic. He can either smash some alien skulls or play defensive and build things to help Jack and Sarah.

Bubba Hendricks

Bubba_Saw

 

 

 

 

Once they began fighting they noticed a pile of alien corpses covered in arrows and in the distance saw Sarah Carver. She’s a survivalist who had been hiking in the area and saw what was going on down in town. Sarah felt she could help so she ran into town and got recruited by big Bubba and Jack.
Sarah Carver

Last semester I started by completely ditching the work I previously did, this was because of the quality of the models from a concept standpoint. Pryce felt I could push myself much harder with more direction in the concept stage. These were the shapes I came up with that I really liked. I did tons of silhouettes at this stage. Link

 

 

 

8/24/2014

Today we fly back to San Francisco where I’ll be resuming full time work Monday morning. Sorry to any clients who had their projects slowed while I was away for 10 days, tried my best to do work on my new laptop but it’s very strange working on it compared to my PC as well as mandatory visiting time with families and old friends. I’ll do my best to get your projects back on track this week! Thanks for understanding. Cheers

8/11/2014

Only a few days until we head back to New York for 10 days. My laptop is gonna let me work full time while there which is great because I’m extremely busy and don’t even have time to do nice renders of pieces. Trying to focus on my workflows for pieces to increase my speed and style without worrying about final beautifully rendered pieces that normally take a day or two to complete. Back to work I go! New pieces in the gallery today!

8/4/2014

Wow it’s August already? School starts again at the end of this month and I have so much to do before I start. It’s going to be extremely difficult to balance my new very busy schedule with school work. What’s more important? Well money and bills silly, but I have to make an effort to focus on school as well.

I’m still refraining from posting new work here because I’m so busy I can barely see straight half the time. New work is being pumped out and unfortunately I can’t show the most impressive piece I’ve ever built until January when it’s released. I spent an unprecedented 7 weeks working on the piece. (For those unaware I make most of my miniatures in 3-5 days so this is quite different for me)

Heading back to New York for 10 days in 2 weeks and I was terrified about leaving my work for that long so I bit the bullet and bought a laptop so now I’m mobile! No excuses ever. It’ll also allow me the new idea of working in coffee shops and not being chained to my desk. Pretty excited about that possibility.

Well this render is just about done, suppose I can give you a preview of it. Back to work I go! Executioner Preview

7/28/2014

Wow! I need two of me! I am taking a break from attempting to update my portfolio and my social media so I can 100% focus on cranking out work. I’ve never been this busy before and it seems to pour when it rains as the saying goes because this all came about the same week I was moving. Things are calming down now and all I want to do is work and job hunt! Back to work I go.

7/23/2014

I’m still trying to catch up with my work from the move, it’s insanely busy every night over here building Ikea furniture and organizing our belongings. For the first time ever we really love our apartment and we’re attempting to turn it into something we’re really proud of.

I still need to add in multiple portfolio pieces and update some other aspects of my site. Also I need to network while I’m in this month’s 3D Creative Magazine!

7/18/2014

About 6 weeks until school and I haven’t touched my thesis! I haven’t exactly been sitting here twiddling my thumbs though, I’ve picked up more clients and taken on more jobs than ever before. I’m going to have to find a balance when school comes around because I have a little over a year left and I need to push myself.

I added in 3 new portfolio pieces and have another 5 in progress right now, just need to find a few hours where I can do some nice renders of them. Finally getting some game assets into this portfolio which is nice because I have the skill set but never get a chance to use it.

The pieces below are for Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire. I am a character artist and weapon artist for them and have a few more pieces to create before their game launches on Steam in just 6 weeks! It’s come a long way since Alpha and I can’t wait to see it at launch with all my models in it!

Exodus Wars Weaponry Conscript Legionnaire

7/14/2014

Lots of updates soon! 5 new portfolio pieces and 2 reworked pieces.

ALSO! I am in this month’s 3D Creative Magazine! Super honored and I am gonna push myself harder than ever to improve as quickly as I can and be worth a spot in this magazine! Cheers.

Come back soon for the updates!

7/3/2014

Summer is definitely under way right now and after 2 months of intense searching we managed to find a new apartment in the city! I’ve never worked this hard for an apartment before. (Bridget worked three times as hard as me)

I’m working really hard to keep up with all my clients, my 2 longest clients just asked for more work to be done on their projects which is AWESOME. But now I find myself with much less time for anything other than art! Great to have the work, I’m pressing forward as hard as I possibly can to create great art for all my clients while keeping some form of sanity and wrist functionality.

I should have… 3 new gallery pieces by Monday up and posted, possibly 4? Depends on who lets me show what. Can’t wait to show the new work! Toys, Miniatures and Game Assets!

Cheers!