August 31, 2010

sci-fi armored suit 1

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Now that DRIVE is at press and I'm enjoying a bit of down time it's time to catch up on my blog posts, so here is something without ...
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July 20, 2010

Join the DSP mailing list for pre-order discounts on DRIVE!

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Sign up to the mailing list at Design Studio Press to receive special sales discounts on DRIVE and our other upcoming titles. Also you can n...
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July 18, 2010

Sunday at the big race!

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This is the last image in the book. Thought it worked well for today.
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July 16, 2010

4 more DRIVE spreads complete!

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Just finished the text yesterday and now we are in the home stretch! Since there are only 4 more days left before I share a look at the enti...
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July 13, 2010

DRIVE artwork complete!

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We have been working hard and today we reached a milestone for the completion of DRIVE, all of the art is complete! Here are few spreads and...
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June 3, 2010

back from 17 days in Italy

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I hope to have some new work to show soon now that I'm back in the studio after spending 17 days traveling through Italy with my wife, M...
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May 7, 2010

Insects at the AMNH in NYC

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Just as I was getting into the habit of posting each week things got just a bit too busy to keep up. I am now back in the studio after spend...
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March 29, 2010

DRIVE: page 174 comp

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I just hit on this "detail-shot collage-look" for parts of the book. Generally happy with the look and feel of this spread. Moving...
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March 25, 2010

Brooks Robertson's new site

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If you liked that music in the video below, get an earful here: http://brooksrobertson.ning.com
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Cousin Brooks working his magic!

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March 24, 2010

DRIVE overview

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Here is an overview of all 176 pages as of today. Lots of work left to do.
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March 19, 2010

Retro Aero

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This one is not making the cut for the book, so I thought it could live on here. I have finished my rough compiling of the book and it is go...
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March 17, 2010

very cool experimental painting programs

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Thanks to Ahmed Aldoori for the link to these cool experimental painting programs by Peter Blaskovic. http://www.escapemotions.com/experimen...
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March 15, 2010

4 new spreads

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Four example spreads which are just first cuts right now. Two from the military styling chapter and two from the pro-sport styling chapter. ...
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March 14, 2010

Sunday-Sparth-SciFi

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Inspired by Sparth to do a quick Sunday-sci-fi-sketch. See ya! F1 is about to start their engines.
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March 10, 2010

more rendering tests

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Composed 20 new pages today for DRIVE, 42 last week. Not quite ready for prime-time viewing yet so in the meantime here are a couple of rend...
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March 8, 2010

original Start Your Engines sketches for sale!

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I just decided to put some of the original work printed in Start Your Engines up for sale on Ebay. Here are the first three going up for bid...
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DRIVE page comps

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Here is the first cut at the layout comps for DRIVE. The book will be 9" x 11" landscape format. The same as Start Your Engines an...
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March 7, 2010

big blog update 2010

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As you might have noticed, if you have been to my blog in the past, there have finally been some updates! Links galore have been added. I...
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March 3, 2010

style test 3

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Another tweaked modo rendering. Played with the volumetrics, a displacement map for the mountains and layering on some traditional media tex...
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This image is a raw test of motion blur, my own HDR image and the 9b carbon fiber material. Still need to refine it in Photoshop to reduce t...
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DRIVE, style test 2

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Here's another style test I did in Photoshop.
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March 1, 2010

style test

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Tried to stylize one of my simple vehicle models in Photoshop to see if I liked this possible visual direction for parts of the book.
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new rendo WIP for DRIVE

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Just added this to the DRIVE work-in-progress site. Still needs Photoshop work to refine the surfaces and add details. Was mostly a BG test ...
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January 25, 2010

quick enviro image test

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This image was a quick test experimenting with the concept of using one of my zoom/blur photos as a background start in Alchemy. Only spent ...
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December 29, 2009

last three quick comps

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