This is a digital portrait of Senator Bernie Sanders. I really enjoy creating this kind of portrait, juxtaposing loosely defined ares with more tight rendering. I feel like the final result feels more “alive” than a tightly rendered one. I suspect it has to do with blurriness suggesting motion and it replicates the effect caused by the fact that the eye can only perceive a small area in focus at any one time.
This was one of the most fun assignments I’ve worked on for any game. I was responsible for creating a cinematic intro that explained what happened between the first tutorial mission, where we see the outbreak happen, and what follows in the rest of the game, weeks later when the world has descended into chaos.
I really enjoyed the creative freedom and responsibility with this project, from hashing out the story via storyboards with one of the co-founders and creating a rough animatic in After Effects to lay out the flow and composition of the shots, to creating most of the 2D assets. I also provided art direction for Witness, the animation studio that did the final animations and effects.
It was satisfying to see the finished product in-game and know that millions and millions of people got to see it. That is a stark contrast to how it commonly is, when your work may not be seen by anyone outside of the development team.
Stills from the final animation:
“V8” my illustration for a group show in Reykjavik opening tonight, on the theme “daily life of superheroes”. Also created as a cover for a comic I wrote a while back and might do something more with. Can you figure out who this one-eyed gentleman is supposed to be?
I was invited to take part in a group show by professional illustrators in Iceland. The show is called Phobophobia and is a themed show where everybody picked a phobia to illustrate. I had been wanting to do a Viking illustration so I picked Xenophobia, since it is the root of a lot of conflict through the ages, it is a good excuse to get to paint vikings. I wanted these guys to be more low life hooligans, than noble chieftains. The show is at Bio Paradis in Reykjavik and will be up until March 30th.
Here is a link to the facebook page for the show
http://www.facebook.com/phobophobia2012
and here you can see the different pieces and buy prints of the illustrations in the show….
http://www.muses.is/index.php?p=listamenn&artist=39
I have been revisiting a few panels from my graphic novel that I did a few years back and wasn’t happy with. Here is one, this is the Odin character.
After doing a lot of environments at work, I felt like using my private time to work on a head study, so voila…
