Digital model painting

a two-hour in-class model painting.

3D Animation Project

A posting in a while. I have been working on a 3D project for my computer animation class(for quite a long time:/) and we were supposed to build a interior of a place that exist in real life. After a long research I found some appealing photographs of train stations, and decided to go for Barcelona Sants railway station.

This was what I had for my 6th week of class. At the beginning of this project, I was going for the mood in World War 2 era, so I simply put the those awesome armored trains. Every object was pretty much in place and I had some good comments from people, but everyone hated the trains there. The biggest problem was that no one could really tell that those were actually trains, not tanks. I agreed that the these trains does not fit with the environment, in terms of design and mood.

So, I managed to make another type of train, and I liked this one much better than the previous one.

ambient occlusion

Final render

After a few break downs during rendering process (probably the most disastrous part of this whole project:/), I managed to finish the scene, and I am quite happy with how it turned out. It sucks that you hardly see any details on the architectures in the final image when I spent so much time getting them right. Still, my professor wanted my scene to be hung at the student show, so it's good that it payed off all my hard work.

Classic LIterature Project- inclass project

An inclass project for Illuastration Practice Portfolio class. We were supposed to pick a title of a popular american literature, and make an illustration based on that title. I went to the list of best selling fictions and picked this book called Mission Earth. I wanted to do something si-fi and the title sounded vague enough to start with my brainstorming and I eventually ended doing this book cover. This is the version I handed in for the class.

Blog web servey

George Hull

http://www.ghull.com/#/

- you can easily see the works and projects he contributed. You can click each post, which leads you to the works he had done for that particular project.
- website is clean and easy to navigate
- his works include props/rough sketches and the final artworks, therefore you can see the process.
-  logo design goes well with his style of artwork
- uses its own domain
- the first blog page does not say his occupations
- may be to many texts on the left side of the blog, little hard to find his resume.

Ben Mauro

http://www.artofben.com/

- clean, and white back ground. you can directly see the projects he worked for.
- it's easy to navigate his contacts, blog, and so on.
- unique typo/logo design.
- each projects' image leads you to the process, which includes descriptions, videos and images.
- uses its own domain

Sergey Kolesov

http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/peleng/
http://pelengart.blogspot.fr/

- clean, grey background
- images on the first page leads to the illustrations he did.
- shows the process thorughly
- a blog format
- no mention of his occupations on the first page

U.S. President project

An in-class project. Tying to do an environment design in a short period time gave me an headache. I just hope I had a little bit more of time since this piece seems to miss a lot of details. I thinking to go back and  smoothen out some areas.

work in progress

one of the llustrations i have been working on. still on progress

Blog Self Evaluation

Prompts:
- Alex Kim
- May 10th 2014
- Science fiction, fantasy, illustrations, concept art
- I mainly use digital media (Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchbookPro)
- I wouldn't call it unique, but I tend to use brushes I designed so, the every piece have same energy to them. - subtle?
- I love the word "wabi sabi". It comes from  a Japanese aesthetic which is finding beauty in imperfection. I try to apply this idea whenever I make my own artwork. For example, I put little details on the parts where I think are less important, therefore interrupt my message to the reader, in order to emphasize the dominant in the painting.
- a game studio
- contemporary artists including Feng Zhu, Alexander Zedig Diboine, Sergey Kolesov, Jon foster, Ashley Wood.

Elevator Pitch: I am a concept artist residing in Columbus Ohio, looking forward to participate in game and movie projects.

Copying old masters' paintings

Copying a painting by Lord Frederick Leighton and learning a lot from it. I feel like I should do more of these everyday.

A concept art inspired by Mass effect series.

A posting in a while. An alien elephant inspired by Masseffect and Avatar.

Another Robot&Chick&Zombie illustration

Here is my three-week illustration project for a class. We had an in-class critiques today and I got some good feedback. I think I will go back and apply some of that good advises on this piece.

Final project for Design for Media -04

For my final artworks, I have done environment sketches and weapon designs. I am not posting character designs yet, since they are pretty much the same from the last post.

To talk about the setting in brief:
Futuristic  steampunk setting where the monarchy government overrules the city, and citizens were not happy about the kings dictatorship. The king and aristocrats' extravagance  grows  bigger everyday while people in lower class suffers from disease and starvation. A resistance group called The Struggles is formed and tries to overthrow the government.

Final project for Design for Media -03

finalized(almost) design of the protagonist

head study

Melee weapon

An instruction that briefly shows how to steal powers from the enemies using help of Noir (the sidekick)

Final project for Design for Media -02

For last week, I spend most of my time working on the main character designs. Due to lack of time, I was not sure if I wanted to make the characters look as realistic as possible. Also I realized that I am more familiar with cartoonic styles. I think getting reference pictures are good thing to do, but sometimes, I need to stay away from them and draw quickly from the head. That way, it seems like I put more character in to my drawing styles. For right now, there are not much to show yet, but hopefully I can get something done by this week.

character design on progress

a very rough sketch of the concept illustration

Final project for Design for Media -01

Last week, I started doing thumbnail sketches for environment and did some character development. For this project, I chose the time setting to be 18th century for some reasons. First, I was searching for historical interesting events and French Revolution came up. I do not recall there had been any concept art based on that particular event, there fore I thought this could be a good practice to come up with something whole new. As for the second reason, I love the atmosphere from Bioshock series and I am going to try to bring that feel to my design, but I wanted to stay away from copying  a lot of visual elements from Bioshock. Right now, I am all over the place doing many things at the same time. I am going tidy up some of these till next week so it looks more presentable.

Storming of  Bastille 1789

rococo decoration

 revolutionaries

 a French noble man

Final project for Design for Media

It is almost end of the semester and I've started working on my final projects.
In this class, we were to make our project on our own choice. Since I am becoming a senior student next year  I felt like it's good time to work on my portfolio pieces. For this project, I am going to develop a concept design of a world I created. I realize that one month is not enough time to develop a solid concept designs but, I look forward spending my time on these even during the summer. I am thinking


I recently played game called 'Bioshock: Infinite' and I loved how much depth they put into the game, by  creating posters, ads, and propaganda, which look realistic and seemly from that time period.

Here are some amazing environment designs.

image sources: http://www.craveonline.com/gaming/previews/168437-beautiful-bioshock-infinite-artwork

In terms of the layouts, I think am going to refer to games like Dishonored. They have really strong concept art and I like their fine- art like quality

At least, I am trying to get three most basic elements done by May 9th:

chracters
environment
vehicle/weapons

This is my gantt chart and I am going to stick to the  schedule.