Bone

This is a piece I did for Blur as a show of interest for the forth-coming "Bone" feature film. We didn't end up animating the movie, but I still got to do this piece (Which in no way reflects the look of the movie. well, except that the bone characters will probably be in it, and I would be shocked if there were no rat-people either...).

Incidentally, Jeff Smith, the creator of "Bone", is an alumni of the Columbus College of Art and Design, where I went to school...


-Sean

Homework

Took Carlo Arellano's Advanced Entertainment Design course at he Concept Design Academy last winter/spring. It was a great class and I would recommend it to anyone, regardless of experience level (although it IS an "advanced" course, so I guess not ANYONE exactly...). It did a lot to get me back into actually drawing stuff out a little more and focusing on design rather than a fancy painting. Anyway, here's some of my homework. We had a fun time redesigning stuff from "Avatar," which always seemed like a mixed bag to me in terms of design...i.e. those blue cat people are a little to close to being furries for my taste!

-Sean

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Concept Design Academy

Old orc sketch

a quick sketch that I did YEARS AGO, back before Blur did the intro for the warhammer dawn of war PC game. I was really excited about the project, but turns out they didn't need any concept work from us... oh well.

-Sean

Why Creationism is cool...

here's a rough sketch that I'll continue in later posts...generic as hell, I know, but I need to let my mind turn to jello sometimes and just play with brushes (painter 9's flat oil brush in this case)...




Now, I won't say that creationism is the most scientifically sound theory to explain the history of life on earth, but any belief system that involves dinosaurs and bikini cave ladies occupying the same slice of space and time deserves a second look...

more later!

-Sean

Goon Film Test Footage From Comic Con...

A week ago, footage from our animation test for "The Goon" was premiered at comic-con. If you haven't checked it out already, take a look:

The last shot was based on a production painting I did for the pitch package a

while back, which is this one here:

As I was working on this one, it occurred to me that if you leave the noses on zombies they tend to just look like really sick old people, which is really disturbing because then it looks like the goon and franky are just plowing their way through a crowd of ailing elderly folks...

I'll post some non-goon stuff soon, I promise again!

-Sean

Yes I'm Alive

Some recent creature scrawlings to take the place of actual art....

Halo Wars: Covenant Destroyer

I also got to design one of the capital ships that the bad guys use in our cinematics for halowars. It was a lot of fun sketching this up, especially since I don't often get the opportunity to draw sci-fi vehicles very often (on account of Chuk, Hugo, and Francisco being so good at drawing them!)...





-Sean