Long days were spent in deep concentration, writing all the necessary newspapers, technical manuals, business publications and scientific journals that analyzed the analysis of scientific journals..."
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Long days were spent in deep concentration, writing all the necessary newspapers, technical manuals, business publications and scientific journals that analyzed the analysis of scientific journals..."
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"Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter." ~Ogden Nash
I created this illustration using Maya, Photoshop and apple cider. The inspiration derives from reading a lot of Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales, which has nurtured my indulgence in dark, "fantasy" landscapes and moods.
This is to be in a series of children's book illustrations.
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"My gallant Perseus, tell me by what craft, what courage, you secured the snake-tressed head.' And Perseus told him of the place that lies, a stronghold safe below the mountain mass of icy Atlas; how at its approach twin sisters, the Graia, lived who shared a single eye, and how that eye by stealth and cunning, as it passed from twin to twin, his sly hand caught, and then through solitudes, remote and trackless, over rough hillsides of ruined woods he reached the Gorgones' lands, and everywhere in fields and by the road he saw the shapes of men and beasts, all changed to stone by glancing at Medusa's face. But he, he said, looked at her ghastly head reflected in the bright bronze of the shield in his left hand, and while deep sleep held fast Medusa and her snakes, he severed it clean from her neck; and from their mother's blood swift-flying Pegasus and his brother sprang." - Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.770
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The wizard was initially created from self-hardening clay. His garment is raw linen applied with jade glue, the inside from conte colored rice paper, applied in the same way. His face, beard, hands and feet are all Sculpey, painted with acrylics and conte powder. The egg is Sculpey with glass fragments for texture, painted with acrylics. The egg sack is silk from a scarf I once loved but wore out. The butterfly is painted metal. The grass... is weird. It's some sort of turf material used in railroad models or something.
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Many particular movies have taken ideas from the book series- the concept of midichlorians were first defined in "A Wind in the Door" years before Lucas and Star Wars used the idea.
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Amid zombies, nazis, aliens, ninjas and/or a combination thereof, it is easy to groan at the idea of more concepts and concept art for video games. There is hope, however as traditional formulas are challenged and gaming companies are calling for innovation. Rather than focusing on demographics (Maggie from thegamechair.com has an excellent article about gender and gaming) it would be nice to see companies taking advantage of multiplayer environments and better game ideas. Games such as Spore which starts from a single evolutionary life cell into a complex civilization game and Lovecity which pushes the meaning of multiplayer altogether will expand our idea of gaming. Learning Maya has helped me understand the need for good concept art before polygon creation, and even more important - creating something that hasn't been done 1,000 times before. I'm currently working on a proposal for a multiplayer purely underwater game based on discovery/pirating/survival. In a 3D environment, it has the mathematical scale of the earth itself. On the left is one of my concept paintings done in oil for an underwater sculpture/character in the game, on the right the beginnings of the 3D build in Maya.
