Pacific Rim Uprising

Hey all,

had some time on the new Pacific Rim Uprising film working as a creature designer.  I did this job through Weta Workshop and worked with Greg Tozer and Leri Greer on the 3 main Kaiju as well as the Mega Kaiju.  Greg Tozer had a big influence over most of the Kaiju and the Kaiju in their final forms look pretty cool!  The kind of job you wish you were on always.

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Pacific Rim Uprising artwork

 

Still

Hey Everyone..
for anyone who still looks at blogs these days!?  I've had a bit of a gap between work and decided to spend the day doing a personal piece.  I called this one "Still" and imagined him patiently waiting in the water for a delicious fish to swim by to snatch up.

Ghost In the Shell io9 artwork teaser.

Thanks to the folks at io9 for sharing some images from the art book.  I got to do a good stint on the project working across a number of subject matter.  More to come on that soon  :)

io9 Article

Gorilla

An older Gorilla study that I hadn't shared.  Done with ZBrush and Photoshop.

Cleverman - The Namorrodor

I was recently lucky enough to work on the Creature Design for the new series, which is out already and I recommend checking it out if you can, called Cleverman made by Pukeko Pictures.  I worked at WetaWorkshop along with Leri Greer who oversaw the project as well as getting to collaborate with Ryan Griffen who created the show and Jake Nash who were fantastic to work with.  I learned a lot about Aboriginal culture and felt fortunate enough to be apart of this team.  Currently been working on Season 2 which looks to be just as good!

Unused Orc Concept

Digging through old files and found this unused Orc concept from 2011 that was done for The Hobbit Trilogies.  Was pretty happy with the design even though we changed direction for the film so I thought I'd share.

Art and Industry of Imagination Workshop

2 posts in one day, what is going on!  This dragon was created for a workshop I ran which was over a day with a great bunch of students!  

Childhood's End - Karellen designs

In 2014 I got to be apart of the team that worked on Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End TV adaptation.  I worked up the designs at WetaWorkshop and the incredible team at Makeup Effects Group created the suit that Charles Dance would perform in.  Please check the Makeup Effects link for more production stills and videos, they did an incredible job!  It was such an honour as well to find out Charles Dance was going to be doing the performance of Karellen.  I loved the book and felt he was a perfect fit as well as Tywin Lannister being one of my favourite villains of all time!

Here's a small sample of the work that got done as well as the final concept (attempting) to put Dance's likeness into the design.

                                     

Paul and Nick with Charles in the final make up.  Amazing job!

Dragon'S

Time to dust the ol' cobwebs off this blog with a couple of new pieces... well one new one at least!

This fella was done as a pitch piece for a film still in production with Director Biz Crummett, she was kind enough to let me show the piece which was done in 2o12.  Stay tuned for that project with more to come!

... And THIS fella was just to do a dragon piece again.  I used some 3D and painted over the model from a Keyshot render.

Bad Sasquatch

I had almost forgotten about these fella's from 2011!  Unused dark and moody designs for a bad sasquatch.

I should add that this isn't how I see Sasquatch (real or not) but was following the brief of this character being an antagonist... Would like to do a version someday of a more peaceful creature.

The Guard

A new personal piece which was based on a design I've been working on for my own project.  It will be featured in the next volume of White Cloud Worlds which I'm very proud to be apart of.  The book will feature a lot of amazing talent from all over Aotearoa.  There'll be a kickstarter being launched soon as well but more news on that to come.

Zhong Kui

Hey Everyone...
a small update with some concept work I got to create for the film Zhong Kui
We had a lot of fun working on this and a fascinating subject matter.

This was a design by Jamie Beswarick and all I did was the tongue and internal mouth  :)

GreyGoo

Really stoked to be able to share some of the work I contributed with the WetaWorkshop Design team to GreyGoo.  We worked with SixFoot and Petroglyph to help fill their world with aliens, humans, industry... you name it!

I was mainly involved with the alien design and their physiology.  Really happy how loyal they were to the design in the final and while I haven't played the game yet, I hear good things, and the cinematics look incredible!

Battle of 5 Armies concept art.

Better late than never to post some of these  :)
All of these pieces and more can be found in the Art of book put together by Weta Publishing, to get a copy please follow the link.

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES : CHRONICLES: ART & DESIGN

Was the final installment for us to work on this property and what a journey it has been!
Also I will be updating with a new website very soon with a more culled selection of my work, but more on that soon.  Meanwhile here's some stuff that was made for the Battle of Five Armies