Wall-E Supercomputer

A purely visual creative exercise. Completed in about 4-5 hours.

Elephants and things

DVD Available here

Rider Concept sketch

Just for fun. About an hour and a half to do.

A thumbnail rough for a potential villain in a potential story.

ARCHEAGLE

A short superhero film/ comic done for a multimedia class when completing my diploma a few years ago. Note the exquisite acting and animation skills. Obviously if I were to do this today it would be of much higher quality. This was my first real play with visual effects, 3d, compositing etc.

Rooster Island

A quick painting and rough compositional layout just for fun. Completed after midnight about 2am tonight. 90mins

Peaceful Christmas Scene - Enhanced

Thanks Mutt for getting this image back on track. It makes sense now! Download Christmas Wallpaper! .

Humbug Scene

This is a digital painting I did of scrooge. Very rough please note. the background plate is a video I composited in Motion. I hope to remaster the Liberty Performance and video's to DVD. Download Christmas Wallpaper!

Mystery of the Triangles

One of my first experiments with Digital Paint. Basically Just some simple fun with colour/ color, shape and form. And the mystery of the triangle.

Christmas Paper Land

Created as a theme for my church's christmas celebration. Here is a little blank card graphic for you to use this Christmas. Not Xmas as some people like to say.

Watch out for that leaf!

This was more than a lot of fun and sweat etc to make. Thanks to Luke & Mutt for their incredible directional vision and input. Stay tuned for more.

Wall E

Wall E. What is Wall E? Whatever you want it to be! Enjoy.

HQ: 1920 x 1080 (16x9) | 1920 x 1200 (16x10)

Mountain Meadows Rough

Just a quick 1 hr Block in. I hope to finish this one day. Sketched from a reference image. And some people think this life is an accident. My my, talk about missing what's right in front of you. One word. Life is beautiful.

Bank Scene

The final look for a short film I made. Where live action/ greenscreen was used over the top. Just a bit of fun.

A raw render from Bryce 5. My firs real experimentation with 3d. What's that white elipse in the corner? Who knows. You really need a super computer to work with 3d. It can be a real headache. It can also be lots of fun, when you see the end result. 2005.

Burning Bush Sketch

Trees and such

Majestic Water Set extension

A very quick and simple set extension play. Not perfect. But what a transformation. And yes the classic bird, selling technique. Youtube.

The Rider on the Whitehorse

Done as my final work for school. This was my first real encounter with putting paint on a canvas. As I was painting this I had a real sense and revelation of the love of God. Reference taken from Rev:19. Size 1.20m x 1.85m

Great Wall Matte Painting

A photoshop composite matte painting. Parts of this were hand painted and constructed. The tower is lit front-on a little unrealistically for effect.

Space Walk

A space walk on a faraway land. Painted at midnight. About 1.5 hours work.

Congratulations Dan & Bec

A crop of the final image. For Dan & Bec. You might have to ask them to see the rest of this one :)

Captain Crossbeard

Ha Ha me harties...This is Captain Crossbeard and his side kick Squiggly P. A little extra download for the kids at church. About 6 hours work. 

ACE: Wonder what's next?

A quick image. I wasn't planning on doing this. A vision came to me so I painted it. About an hour's work. I'm quite happy with the style and where this might go...or where it might go. Exciting isn't it?

Landscape crop

After doing a few hours work on this african pic, I have had a change of thought and direction. I don't want to create a plain landscape, I need the image to have a unique perspective, something to keep it interesting. Here is a 1:1 progress shot. Before I change it up a bit.

Refined African Thumb

I'm quite happy with where this 2hr work is heading. It's refreshing to have such an open expanse of land. I have applied an adjustment curves and boosted up the mid and darker areas. I have also increased my usage of photoshop brush settings. These are really quite useful. For some free training in brushes and all other things digital. Check out a free trial over at Lynda.  

African landscape thumbs.

Just some fun thumbs for a digital african painting I want to do. This set turned out all a bit to the same. I like the flower type things in bottom left. Rock's, Acacia Tree and clouds will be good too. Bright oranges I think are a must have. I think I may opt for a wider aspect ratio though, 2.35:1 is not quite wide enough.

Quick Block in.

I just needed to push some paint around the canvas. This is a 20min block in of colour using ARTRAGE painting App.  It's a fantastic app, and so amazingly cheap! A very good alternative to the Painter app. This was a good practice for an African Landscape oil painting I'm doing. I have little to no experience to working with real paint, so we'll see how we go.

Afternoon Citadel Adaption

Evening Citadel Adaption

Here is an evening adaption of the citadel shot. Having light as the point of interest in this shot is what I initially envisioned when doing the daylight thumb.

Midday Citadel Adaption

Here is a further developed midday take at the citadel shot. 

Citadel thumbs

Here are some working thumbs for a spanish citadel shot. These were completed as part of a matte painting course I've undertaken at FXPHD. These were really rough. The bottom right shot I developed a little more, as this different approach to the subject matter seemed to really help my thinking.