Monster Hunted!

So Capcom conducted a fan-based contest this past week where participants were asked to design a weapon that potentially might make it into the game for it's North American and European/Australia release sometime in 2010. If you know anything about Monster Hunter or are a fan of sorts you realize simply designing a weapon is too shortsighted a task. All things come from the monsters you defeat in the game...so naturally my weapon needed an inspiring monster to be drawn from, literally.

Now that this little guy was finished I moved onto the weapon, or in this case weapons. There are multiple categories of weapon in MH and I needed so see what I could do with all of them before deciding on one.

In the end I decided on doing a finished rendering of the Slash Axe weapon type, a weapon with two modes.

Submissions just ended recently, so it'll probably be sometime before winners are announced. I'll update if/when that happens. In the meantime I will probably flesh out all the weapons in my free time.

Big Update Part 2

And here's part two. These are the armor sets that are supposed to be added to the game. I always find it interesting how one's art develops as a project progresses. There is always some shift in style, emphasis, etc., as you work on long term projects.

Big Update Part 1

Okay, now for the first part of a big (well relatively speaking) update. Here's the first set of of concepts I did while working on Legends of Kaos for Shattered Reality Interactive as their Lead Concept Artist. At this point I'm not sure what's happening with the game but you can check it out here: www.legendsofkaos.com

Arid Outlook

Today I went ahead and organized a bunch of my photo reference into categories and chose a couple to bring this quickie to life.

Finding I need to beef up my environment drawing skills to compliment my characters. This took about and hour, tweaks and all.

First Post

After a bit of deliberation, consisting of me talking to myself and other confidants, I've decided to go with the flow and use a blog to show off new stuff as it's done, rather than go through the hassle of updating a real website. Actually my buddy Erik is the one dealing with the hassle, monkeying around with Flash, while I sit back and crack the hassle whip. Anywho, here goes.