Steampunk Sea Life

I did the concept design for these creatures as well as the 3D modeling and texturing. Props to my friend Jacob at Pixelfire who polished them and nailed the lighting! It's exciting to see my work fit into a production pipeline. Check out the studio I interned at at: http://www.pixelfire.net/ 

More Airships!

Some Airships from last month's project at work at Pixelfire. I did lot's of study on light and texture for the cloudy skies. Lots of zany designs for the airships too.

Freelance

A few months ago I began some freelance work with my friend who was going to release an album called Mixed Metaphors under the pseudonym, Cloud Canvas. He had a very strong conceptual basis for what he wanted the work to look like, and after some discussion I started doing some silhouettes. We went through quite a few revisions of the silhouettes until we got exactly what he was looking for.

After we had boiled down the design to the above silhouette, I started developing it as a 3D model, simply referred to as the 'emblem'. I chose to make the cover emblem in 3D software so it could be reposed from different angles for other assets of album related art work.

I did the texturing and bump maps for the model in Mudbox, which I learned for this project.

After numerous revisions and lot's of render crashes, we ended up with the final album cover below. 

Thanks to Nick Suda for a great learning opportunity and an exciting project! Check out his album here: http://nicksuda.bandcamp.com/album/mixed-metaphors