Photo Illustration: Idea farm

I've created a new photo illustration called "Idea Farm" that's about cultivating that one idea that can turn into something. I used paper mache, light bulbs and a somewhat successful attempt using baby powder for atmosphere/dust with a long exposure. All together, the final image was a composite of 4 different shots.   Here's some behind the scenes of how it was made:

Night Shift Painting

This is a painting I did back in December based off the med-bay area in the USS Hornet Ship down in Alameda CA. I threw in some surreal robot elements to add some mystery hinting that something strange is going on in this ship... Software: Photoshop.

Photo Illustration

Here's a new piece I did called "The Creative Journey" primarily for the LucasFilm holiday party art show this year. It was created by cutting up a bunch of metal, hot-gluing it all together, throwing a cardboard cut out of a kid running, some real balloons and a fog machine. The story I was attempting to tell is the creative one.. carrying an image (represented by the RGB balloons) through your mind, often times trying to pop and change the idea. Overall it was a fun project and I'm going to attempt some more in the future. It was also nice stepping away from the computer and getting physical.. even if it meant fogging up my apartment for a few hours and endless metal cuts. Below are a few behind the scenes images from the project.

Microcosm Challenge

For this week's challenge, we went with "Microcosm" - a minature/microscopic civilization. I decided to try a more photo-based concept this time by inserting this bio-mech bug city in a photograph I took by the Palace of Fine Arts here in San Francisco. The bug was modeled and rendered in 3dsmax with a little help from zbrush. The comp and DOF work were done with photoshop and DOF generator Pro. Next week's assignment is "When Lawn Gnomes attack".

Valentine's Gondala

Created with 3dsmax and Photoshop.

Scrap Scraper challenge

Some friends and I are starting weekly challenges in order to do more personal work. This week's challenge was to illustrate a Scrap Scaper... a city, structure or colony made entirely of scraps. Next week's challenge is going to be "Micro Blvd."

Sudden Life WIP

I've been brewing on this idea for a long time... A sudden explosion of plant life through a street, plowing through a truck. The original idea came from a good friend Mike Bear. I'm not happy with this one very much so expect future versions of this illustration.

Lost Trinity

An older render from 2006, but definitely representative of where I want to take my personal work for the future.

Some concepts

Here's some more older concept work I did for 3DTotal.com last year

Digimattes from SCAD

Here are few digimattes from back in the day at SCAD. I have a feeling I'll be doing more of these in the future.

Apple Street

Well I finally decided to try this art blog thing out in an attempt to do new personal work! So until then, here's some older work.