Live DEMO painting

Tonights painting. I will be doing a lot of these during our IW demo day in London. Come and hang out with us!

info:http://www.industryworkshops.co.uk/

I enjoy doing these sketches, letting the music drive the feel and mood. All is free hand and painted. No trickery , 3d or photography used. I kind of like staying within that limitation during these as a challenge and to push the narrative with it. I hope you enjoy the process. The final image was another 40 min or so, painted while the video was being processed. Just polishing up details and definition.

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"You can't teach art, you can't teach persuasion, but you can teach knowledge"

If that title grabbed you then i am sure you will find more insightful quotes from Advertising legend Bill Bernbach in the following clips. Many of his thoughts and ideas echo so well with my artistic and creative philosophy. For those of you who are not familiar with Bill Bernbach, He was a big name in advertising in the 50s - 60s. So much of todays advertising is built on his legacy and that true good advertising is art.

Why on earth would this be interesting for me as concept artist or visual fx artist creative?

Before Bill, Most of the time i felt like a cog in a wheel of a huge machinery wether it was film, games, or any creative project. I felt like i moved a couch left or rightI came to realise that each role we have we need to understand what it is, why we do it, to whom we do it before we do it. The understanding to who we are delivering to helps your creative decision making. When you are faced with a visual task your job becomes a bit easier if you understand what the director or supervisor wants to achieve. A single word can often suffice to help you on the right path. Plus you feel you are being creative and not just filling an empty spot because you understand you are selling an idea rather then performing an empty task.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bernbach

Makoto Inspired sketch project.

A little weekend project. This time around it's about doing an artwork that is heavily inspired by the most excellent Makoto Kobayashi's designs. Not only does he do marvellous mech designs but also lots of beyond the design story telling too. He creates the models and puts them into context. There are sources for getting his model kits for those of you who are keen to spend a bit. So this weekend i decided to sit down and let some of his amazing work inspire this design and piece. I also wanted to recreate that wonderful watercolour/sketchy feeling with the renders.

Lots of organic and curvy shapes, very animal like big features mixed with the military capabilities.

Here are the following results:

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Black Sails SE3 E1 Matte Extension

Screne Scene approached me to do a shot for the latest season of Black sails TV show. The shot was a set extension where we had to come up up with the idea of extending this vast gold hold. Compare plate and one of the last versions of the DMP. Last fire comp was treated by Screne scene. I ended up modelling the piles and columns, that way i could move things around to try different placement layouts. More additional CG-gold was around the actors feet and fg.

The plate that was provided:

One of the final versions that was delivered

One of the first versions of exploration, more cave like then structure

This version was supposed to show us that the underground is filled with columns in depth.

For more info www.artoflevi.com/black-sails-s3

APOLLO MISSIONS PHOTO ARCHIVES

NASA recently released a lot of high-res photos on flickr from the Apollo missions. A rich and inspiring collection for any space fanatic. 4K res images available if you are keen on desktop wallpapers ;)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

Nicolas Uribe

Stumbled upon a podcast interviewing Nicolas Uribe. Some of his work really intrigued me and its nice to hear his thoughts about progress and thinking. A good art conversation with this excellent painter.

http://nicolasuribeart.com/

http://www.artistdecoded.com/podcast/

Albert Whitlock Mattepainting Master

The great Albert Whitlock. A matte painting master who's work we have enjoyed since the sixties.

Check out pete's blog for more rich material about Albert and other famous matte painters.

Anime Backgrounds

Anime lover? then i am sure you will enjoy this quite rich tumblr page consisting of various collections of background plates from the movies.

http://anime-backgrounds.tumblr.com/

Guinness - Ashwin Willemse

Guinness commercial i helped created matte painting extensions for. Partial slums were created by the art department on set and rest painted to recreate the western cape environment.

Yury Pustovoy Landscape Photographer

Once in awhile you stumble on something truly iconic and powerful. Thats the feeling i got from a lot of Yury's work. Absolutely amazing eye for landscape compositions.

https://500px.com/yurypustovoy

Edward Curtis and the documentation on Native Indians

In 1906 J.P. Morgan offered Curtis $75,000 to produce a series on the North American Indian. It was to be in 20 volumes with 1,500 photographs. Morgan was to receive 25 sets and 500 original prints as his method of repayment. 222 complete sets were eventually published. Curtis' goal was not just to photograph, but to document, as much American Indian (Native American) traditional life as possible before that way of life disappeared. He wrote in the introduction to his first volume in 1907: "The information that is to be gathered ... respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost." Curtis made over 10,000 wax cylinder recordings of Indian language and music. He took over 40,000 photographic images from over 80 tribes. He recorded tribal lore and history, and he described traditional foods, housing, garments, recreation, ceremonies, and funeral customs. He wrote biographical sketches of tribal leaders, and his material, in most cases, is the only recorded history.

See his collection http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?start=200&artist=741

Alfred Palmer and his WW2 colour photos

Shorpy's, my favourite time-capsule website. This post about Alfred Palmer and his most excellent portraits of the peole from the WW2 era. And yes high res images are available too!

http://www.shorpy.com/alfred-palmer-photographs-ww2

March to the moon and other awesome Space images

One of my favourite sites for space reference and earth images. Check it out from the first space era. Oh yes you have access to full res images and raws! how cool is that.

http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/

Personal projects!

Hey hey! I will be posting random and hopefully interesting stuff in this feed starting with my 2001 personal 3D projects. Check out more info of this project here.