Self-Development and Teaching Notes (2018 - 2023)

Below are some of my own self-development over the years in stylized anatomy that I have put together into my own teaching material that I use with my students.

 

Concept Design Demo...at first..then became something else.

Here are some Concept Design demos for my students, but i took it further and came up with an idea mixing Mad Max, Back to the Future and Takeshi Koike's Redline.

As for the color, that's inspired by Ecto 1 from Ghostbusters. Just a love letter to things i grew up with a hint of recent inspiration.

Character Sculpting with Dylan Ekren.

Recently just completed a Zbrush Character Sculpting class with Dylan Ekren, under Mold 3D Academy. Learned a ton on stylized character sculpting, more on maintaining the shape design and 3D treatment over staying true to anatomy.

Below are my initial studies along with the original designs by the great Jeff Matsuda, and my final Zbrush sculpt. Forgive the bad posing! First time using Zbrush for a full character.

Rise of the Gnome King

A personal project of mine, just started as an idea of a gnome barbarian but ended up being fully committed to the idea once a thought came to mind of him riding a rubber ducky as his mount. (Scale's off i know haha.)

Hope to find time to add on to this!

Character and Production Design with Dan Holland

I had the privilege and honour of being a part of a Masterclass instructed by Pixar Art Director Daniel Holland back in 2015. Learned a great deal from him and had the opportunity to be Lead Artist on the project we worked on for the class, mainly focusing on the overall look of the project and designing the mansion and other production assets.

Here are some of the works, will share more soon!

Here's me and Dan when he came over for a visit with his wife. Awesome guy who's super into trains haha.

Age of Grit Kickstarter Pitch

So a year ago i worked on a Kickstarter pitch for an untitled game at that time.

Was involved in designing the player's and enemy's airship and just recently the project got funded so here's to share the artwork i did for the pitch and the link to the Kickstarter Project.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iqsoup/age-of-grit-a-cowboy-steampunk-rpg

Environment Sketching with Armand Serrano