FrontPage Archives - Erling Ingi Saevarsson

UI Graphics

May 29, 2019September 2, 2021

Marvel Puzzle Quest

Client: Demiurge

Role: UI/UX design

Helped define the visuals for Shards, a major new feature that touched most areas of the established game in addition to designing and refreshing other UI elements.

Celebrity Slots

Client: BlingKa

Role: UI/UX for a mobile slots game

Main responsibility was designing the look for a new $1 Million prize wheel, and integrate it into the daily user flow from wireframes to final UI art. I also created various new UI icons, marketing assets and refreshed older graphics.

Zombie Gunship Survival

Client: Limbic Software

Role: UI artist, concept artist

Created UI graphics and UI/UX concepts for a mobile game.

Icon illustrations for medal and resources

App icon variant designs

World of Darkness

Environmental Graphics Illustration

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019

These are illustrations commissioned for use on outdoor billboards and signs.

I was commissioned by an advertising agency to do a series of illustrations for an energy company in Iceland. The ads were used online, in newspaper ads and billboards at the Keflavik international airport.

The billboard installed at the international airport

These are illustrations commissioned for a state park in California.

Squirrel eating redwood cone, freeing the seeds

Everest

May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

I had the fortune to work on Everest (2015) directed by Baltasar Kormákur. I created environmental concepts for RVX, the visual effects studio in Reykjavik Iceland.

Concept for Everest exploring the environment for a tense scene with characters crossing a treacherous icefall.

The storm that hits the mountain is the main antagonist and needed to be concepted

Team Iceland

May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

I created this watercolor painting of four members of the Icelandic men’s national soccer team. The inspiration was the amazing achievements of this team, in particular qualifying for the FIFA world cup last summer.

As an Icelander I’ve been a fan of the team since I was a boy. Although we have had good players and good results here and there, this team is something else and their achievements cannot be taken for granted.

As an illustrator I found myself driven to create art to honor these heroes. My goal was to capture some of the energy, the passion and the hard work that has put Iceland on the footballing map. I depict them as emerging out of the colors of the Icelandic flag, as if they are embodying the hopes and dreams of the nation behind them. Even though I would have liked to include all the players and the staff, I quickly realized as I started sketching that I had to choose 3-4 to represent the spirit of the team.

Neon District

May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

I got to work with Blockade Games on storyboards and animations for a trailer, explaining the back story of their cyberpunk themed crypto game.

The trailer contains a hidden crypto puzzle that was eventually solved. It was fun to work with the team to hide the clues in the video trailer.

Power Rangers

May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

I worked with director Joseph Kahn on his bootleg “deBoot” Power Rangers short. He needed digital matte paintings to layer into the background of a few shots; a day and night view of a futuristic LA skyline and an alley shot.

Zombie Gunship Revenant

May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

After the success of Zombie Gunship Survival, the team at Limbic Software was hard at work following it up by leveraging the Augmented Reality technology that Apple was rolling out around that time. The result was Zombie Gunship Revenant which we managed to develop from concept to launch in just a few months. The game was selected as “Best of app store 2017”.

Exploration for a level design and colors for the infrared camera.

Purple vs. blue to pink “Predator” vision.

Zombie Gunship Survival

May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

As the first concept artist hired for the game, I got to have my hands in everything art related. I started with storyboards to help figure out the gameplay, then created concept art for the game assets and finally prepared UI icons and calligraphy for the logo, app icon, and other marketing assets.

I really enjoyed the creative freedom and responsibility in creating the in-game animatic trailer that tells the story how the world was consumed by the zombie apocalypse. 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.

World of Darkness

May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

During my time at CCP Games/ White Wolf Publishing, I had the privilege to work on developing the Word of Darkness MMO. Sadly the project was cancelled and never saw the light of day. Here is a gallery with a selection of work that I created during my time there.

Character Illustration

May 28, 2019May 29, 2019

This gallery contains a selection of character illustrations and portraits that I have created over the years. These were done for a variety of clients in the entertainment industry. There are a couple of personal projects there as well.