R - MUHR: a collection of sci-fi suits

I thought I would share an idea I'm kicking around to test the waters and see if anyone is interested. I've been exploring more sci-fi suit designs using a variety of techniques which would be revealed in a short-form oversize book. The book would be around 32 to 48 pages, soft cover, oversized at 14" tall x 12" wide printed on heavier paper stock than any of the other Design Studio Press titles. Estimated retail $19.95 to $29.95. Which means you will be able to get it on Amazon for probably around $13.25 to $19.75. This short-form oversize book would feature my sci-fi suit designs with explanations of how they were created.

Interested? Post a comment here or over on my FB page.

Thanks.

LA modo user group meeting at the studio

Saturday Neville Page and I hosted the LA modo user group meeting here at our studio. Here is Wes Ball walking us through his techniques for creating his short film "Ruin" which Wes says is about one or two months from completion. So far it looks great! I shared a bit of what I've been doing with my "replicator" suit design studies. Which are ever changing and heading into some new directions now after the meeting.

You can now download the recorded videos here.

Reading List from Red Engine workshop

I've had a couple of requests for this so here you go, happy reading!

7 Red Engine lecture clips

Just added 7 clips to my You Tube Channel from my eight, 90 minute lectures last fall at Red Engine Studios.

new drawthrough website

My new drawthrough website is now live.

Happy Holidays from Design Studio Press!

And here's a special gift from DSP to you...

40% off our 3 newest titles until January 1st.

Cheers!

BLAST: off to press!

Hey All,

Happy Holidays!

BLAST is now complete and off to press! I'm very happy with the book the guys put together. We expect it to arrive back here for sale in March. It's nice to have it all wrapped up before the holidays. Here are a couple of spreads from Annis Naeem, Danny Gardner and myself from the final book as well as the finished cover just completed this morning. Head on over to the DSP site and reserve a copy! By getting on the list you will be assured to get notified of the even sweeter deals and a special edition we have planned for the release of the book.

Thanks again to all for the the words of encouragement during the development of the book. Always helps as these self generated books can be tough to complete.

Now onto the next one, err...make that 3!

cool anaglyph images by Tim Jester

Jester just emailed me these cool anaglyph images he made of Luca's bot model he showed in the DSP booth at Comic Con last summer from his upcoming book ABAKAN 2288. Which BTW should be here any day now!

You'll need a pair of anaglyph glasses to view the images.

Enjoy.

Special Thanks to You!

Today through Monday I'm offering my books through Design Studio Press at a huge savings to you as my way of saying, "Thanks for the continued support and Happy Holidays."

Just click the orange dot on the DSP home page to access the specials.

Click here.

rendering detail left page

Per Patrick's request on my FB page here is another part of the same rendering. This ship will land on the left page, the previous ship on the right.

BLAST rendering detail

Here's another small detail of a much larger rendering for BLAST.

We're almost done! One more monster rendering for me to tackle and a few touch ups and then it's time for text and printing. DSP book #43.

BLAST ship detail

Here's a detail shot of the BLAST book piece I tried to finish today.

Concept Ships November Header!

I'm stoked with what Igor did with image for the Concept Ships November Header, thanks Igor!

GO check it out in all its animated fun. Concept Ships.

Lucca - DSP booth sketches

Here are a couple of demos I did while sitting in the DSP booth during days 2 and 3 of the show. The dino-bot is a continued work-in-progress of the very early rough sketch I post awhile back. The Alien was done on Halloween as a Photo Booth/Photoshop example.

Luca's next resin kit...

This is a sketch I did for Luca Z. (the author of ABAKAN 2288) while working in the DSP booth today during the Lucca Comics and Games show. It's a paint over of the prototype for his next resin kit. You can see the primer grey model in the FG of the picture I posted to my FB page of him signing his new book. I snapped a shot with my camera and colorized and weathered it up a bit. Still more to do if it's going to be used as a final rendering for anything beyond the blog. Today is also his birthday, so be sure to wish him well on his FB page!

BLAST: orange ship detail

Keeping with the orange and blue theme, here's a detail of piece for BLAST that is almost done.

rock bot with rider - detail shots

As detail shots seem to be my theme of the week here are a couple of more from the "rock bot" sketch I posted awhile back.

more BLAST details

Okay, now I'm just procrastinating by posting more detail shots!