The Grim Samurai: Update!

I submitted the design on Threadless the other day! I made the presentation with a flash template. I also created an animated gif. The gif was not what I wanted. I imported a jpeg into flash and wanted just the eyes to glow. When I exported the image it was very pixelated and scratchy. So I added film grain and tracking lines onto the gif in flash. Now it looks old and grainy like a old movie. Made it work. You can go to Threadless and vote for my design when it is up by clicking the image below! Also, you can click the "like this" on facebook option now. Tweet it, spread the word on tumblr. Google+ it. etc..if you feel like doing so! :) hope you like it!

New Design: The Grim Samurai!

This is a design I have been working on for a while now. Its all drawn in flash. Its the Grim Reaper in a alternate timeline as a samurai. Instead of the usual reaper with a long robe and sickle maybe warriors on the battlefield would see something like this instead. That's my little back story for this design. Once its finished I think it would look really neat on a t-shirt, so I will submit it to Threadless. Not to pump my head up with air, but i think this is a really good drawing. I would say its probably my best to date!

Project Rooftop: Spider-Man 2.0 Redesign contest entry

This is my design for the Project Rooftop: Spider-Man 2.0 Redesign contest. I thought Peter Parker would need a more high tech suit. He created the web shooters, why not more, and not just a spandex suit? Lets start from the top.

I added more elements to the mask. Instead of a mask I made it a helmet. The dude gets knocked around in battle, so you would need something to protect your noggin. More "eyes" (lenses), like a spider. They could act as flashlights in a dark area, plus there could be night vision, infra red, etc.

I made the suit look more armor like, padding. Most his enemies are bigger and stronger, so one would need a suit like that in my opinion, Right? I also wanted to keep the spider insignia on his chest, but I incorporated the spider legs into the rest of the costume, breaking it up. I used black instead of red because it would be more stealth like, instead of blue and red. I added a honeycomb texture in place of the webbing pattern just for esthetic reasons. I also added a zipper seam on the costume because I imagine with all the superhero costume it would be a pain to have to hop in and out of a unitard. Plus what if you had to pee?

I gave him a backpack, because he would usually carry a camera and his civilian clothes. In the comics he would put them in a sack of webbing and tie it up somewhere. My thinking would be "Its spider webbing, wouldn't that ruin the camera and the clothes, or at least be a pain to get off?" So that's the thought behind the backpack, plus he could keep spare web shooters in there amongst whatever he needed or picked up (a bagged lunch, first aid kit?)

I added a utility belt because he would need spare cartridges for his web shooter. Plus he could have different web shooter cartridges for different purposes, Like in the comics he would have different strengths of webbing for different villains. Plus if he were to get into a building, he would need to break in, and I'm almost positive that not all buildings have ventilation shafts that you could crawl right into the building. So I added some lock picking tools to the utility belt.

I added knee pads, elbow pads, shoulder pads and sheath armor over his tibula and fibula, and metal on his knuckles. his shoes have plates on the toes and heels, because he does a lot of running and swinging kicks into people.

And that was my thought process for my costume redesign for spider-man. I hope it gets at least mentioned in the contest. Now that its finished and Ive had time to look it over, I can already hear some of the comments " Tron-Spider-man, Tom Clancy meets Spider-man, Nothing like Spider-man". I honestly look forward to the critique, no matter how torn apart it may be.

EDIT: Crap, I just realized his belt buckle, sort of looks like Deadpools.



EDIT: Smaller Version

Queen: 40th Anniversary T-Shirt Design (Voting Open!)

                             Vote for my 40th Anniversary T-shirt design for Queen on Talenthouse!

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Animal Charm: Movie Poster Design (Voting Open)

A contest I entered on Talenthouse.com. The contest was to design the movie poster for the upcoming indie flick "Animal Charm" starring Sadie Frost (Best know for her role as Lucy in Bram Stokers Dracula). Not much was said about the movie to make a poster. But from the visuals shown in the video as well as the stills found online, I noticed that the movie has a lot of bold colors and deep shadows. So I brought those bold colors and shadows into the poster. What stood out to me were Sadie Frosts character which made a cool silhouette and the three women wearing masks. Together they made a interesting composition for a movie poster (in my thoughts). Also I skewed the angle for a more dramatic effect and better use of the poster size. I had fun working with a limited palette. It came out very bold. I hope you like it.

 

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Production Team: Production Work

Here are a few designs that I made for my production team class. Among the many alterations made from the client at the Coolidge theater. We went from our own thoughts, mine being the old west theme. from there we went to a magic theme, and then we finally pleased the client with a Alien theme. One of my many jobs within the group was to design and model an old woman who would be one of the people in the movie theater, as well as the spacecraft that the aliens would come in. Here are some of my designs that were made! Enjoy

Dr. jekyll.....Mr.....uuhhh

So this is a design for my Advanced 3d animation class. I wanted to do a man changing into a werewolf initially. But then when sketching ideas, I realized that the concept has been beaten to death. So instead of a werewolf I drew some mutant, monster thing. I like it, I think Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde....kinda.

There are not enough hours in the day...

As I was saying, we are all working on an "Alien" theme now. Our job this week was to design five characters in a style other than our own. I drew inspiration from the cartoon "Sebastien" which is on Gobelins.fr under animacion.

Also we had to take a shot of The Coolidge corner and draw it in four different styles (Or at least I had to). My favorite is the first one. It reminds me of silent hill.

Character Designs: "The Comic"

These are two character designs I did for my character & object design class In college last semester 08' with George Pfromm II (Blog: Honolulu Dog Fight). These characters are somewhat dear to me. They are renderings I did of a comic that a friend and myself created in High School. The comic was about the elements. Thats all I'll say. The woman In the first pic Is the queen of the water tribe. The second one Is an Assassin.

This one Is of what we simply called "The Wind Oracle." Did I mention that the comic Is still In development hell. lol