Matte #4

This is my 4th atemp at the arts of Digital Matte painting,  practicing stuff learned in the amazing Gnomon tutorials DVDs,  I'm preparing the image to do some compositing and camera movement on Nuke.  I'm also adding the original picture that I'm working of, courtesy of Michael Labbe and also the 3D geometry used for the Matte and the sketch.

Matte #3

My third exercise on the dark arts of matte painting, first is the final Matte image, second is the sketch that I did on top of the original picture, and last is the 3D Geometry build to guide the Digital matte work.

El conquistador

Mech and plane

Couple of personal pieces that I've completed recently.

Blueprint

Because I love them' blueprints, a turn around of the plane posted a few days ago

Samurai for a friend

A Samurai image for a friend of and old friend of mine:

Cargo plane
Haven't done any vehicles in a while, so I started sketching some at home and this is the first one that I fully render in a while

Double arch

I did this piece at home to practice some tricks that I've learned recently to flirt with the Matte Painting worl.  It's more of an experiment that keep growing constantly until I decided to stop working on it to move on with some other pieces that are half-baked in my computer

Star Trek concept art

Hello guys, well since joined Digital Extremes last year, I had the chance to do a few pieces for the new Star Trek video game, here are some of the production pieces that I did:

Life drawing

So the last few days I've been going to life drawing to improve my skills, check them out:

Mech pilot

Again playing around the theme of armor with fun tech stuff :)

Pilot concept

new character concept, cheers

Halo fan art

Some fart art done at home, hope you guys like it

Armored character

Working on my characters,  personal project just for fun. hope you guys like it

So it's done

I think this is done for now (unless I get some awesome feedback and start adding some changes) so this is my first attempt of mixing 3d and concept work, I hope you guys like it:

Matte Painting

So for the last couple of months I start teaching myself matte painting using multiple tutorials, so I decided to reduce the skecthing and start using more 3D, and finally start facing realities in life like lighting, mental ray and render passes. Thanks a lot to Arnaldo and Jason for the tips :)

more life drawing

Some recent life drawing studies that I'm trying to get back into to improve the skills, mostly are 5-10 and 30 min poses, and the more detail ones are 2,5 and 3 hours. hope you guys like them.

Prototype 2 Concept art in Kotaku!

Hello everybody, a couple of days ago I was surprised to find the concept art work that I did for Prorotype 2 in Kotaku, this has created a huge amount of traffic to my website which I had to update the webhosting plan to receive the new traffic.

article at Kotaku

My apologies if the page isn't working for you right now, I'll be back up in a few minutes (according to my provider).

Cheers!

New old sketches

Well in the process of updating my portfolio I came across some old sketches that I never posted on my blog, so here they are:

New renders of the 3D plane

Thanks a lot to Arnaldo Rodriguez for lighting this model, here are some of the renders that Arnaldo took for me, thanks a lot!