Job Satisfaction - Bob Bates - GDC 2010 Conference

I was sent this inspiring link this week about job satisfaction. After my time in Oregon I totally see this as being true. Enjoy and happy friday!

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012343/The-Belly-of-the-Whale

Conan

I have been trying to do Caricatures of regular people and I have to say its pretty hard stuff. So sometimes I keep switching between regular folks and celebrities. Somehow some of these stars have the funniest faces. Yesterday i saw this cool blog Elaine Bogan. And she created a Zombie Conan. Since i am trying to do caricatures I figured i would try to do something with him.
Again its all practice practice practice.

haha

David Bowie Study

Since I am currently studying Caricature, I was decided to try a quick study of David Bowie. its really not easy. First of all his pupils are not the same size.
Also as I started to write this blog post, I went to the gym, so I had some time to distance myself from the image and can see how it does and how it does not look like Mr. Bowie.
I will have to try again tomorrow!

Creepy Villain

Martin

 

I am not sure how this director find these actors, but their faces really are amazing especially for caricature. Actually the more i worked on it , the more it was freaking me out. His intent- his gaze is just so intense and so morbid

I'm not going to mention what movie it is, because i really don't want to have the search bots picking this up right now, but if you watch a lot of films and you watched the first one and saw the trailer for this new torture p**rn flick then you will know where this photo comes from.
Cheers.

Kirby...poo

i have been struggling with creature design, trying to understand the animal anatomy these past couple of weeks. Since I am currently unemployed, as the "temp layoff" if no longer temp, I have time to work on my skills.

My model today is my dog Kirby.

Animated Gif Love.

I love animated pixel art. I love game boy games and old school art.... just have to learn to make some good ones. here is my first attempt- based off of a tutorial on gamasutra

Now that I no longer work for Bedlam , I am no longer under their contractual clauses- therefore all the things I create at home on my own time are mine! Including games. I am really a fan of Crittercrunch its a game made by Toronto based Gaming company http://www.capybaragames.com/  

Update: i just made this little doggy dude up here tonight. took me about 1 hour- since i was just going with the flow. I am going to look into what game engines I could use. Maybe GameMaker -or Unity.

Steve Jobs- RIP

I figured i would try my hand at doing caricatures and while Iwas practicing in Photoshop this evening I saw a news feed saying Steve Jobs had passed away. I am not really good at caricature yet but practice makes perfect so here is a little doodle of  Mr. Jobs, because i thought it was fitting and he was an amazing man

Thank you Steve showing the world that you can follow your dreams.