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.

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

Grey Alien

Finally got to do some more work towards this fella.  Rendered him in Keyshot with some Photoshop post work.  Sculpted in Zbrush.

A better close up with his hand  :)

Largely based on the many descriptions found of greys, although I did my own take on the suit material... avoided the aluminium look.  The symbols are roughly based on the Rendlesham forest incident where a military officer is said to have transcribed the symbols off a craft he had seen.  Alot of fun recreating this guy and hopefully will be able to do more with this model in the future.  Possibly will do a 3D print of this guy!

Yena

Another throw away alien head.  Mucking around at work, when i probably shouldn't  ;)  I've always loved Steve Wangs fish head designs and this one is totally inspired by them!  I find his forms totally inspiring with the simplicity in their basic structure but complexity in surface detail.  This is NO WHERe near that.  But I had fun breaking away from fantasy for a bit  :)

Alien Monkeys...

.... are fun to do!  I created this guy as a test for a demo I'm going to be doing soon.  I tried to record a video through ZBrush but ended up being a bit messy, next one will come out and I'll design something a little more exciting than a colourful monkey... although I call him an alien!  The video making process has become very easy in Zbrush and look forward to actually getting it right soon!  The record history states is going to be very handy. 
I will be doing 2 tutes soon one covering my maquette methods for 3D conceptualizing and the other creating conceptual art using Zbrush and Photoshop in a couple of hours like this guy.
Thanks for takin a look :P

Trying some tech...

Here's a little bot head I did, inspired from jumping spiders faces, hence the name.  Have been so focused on organic forms for so long, I need to get into learning tech again.  Thought I'd start easy with something fun.  Mouth parts came out a little more awkward than I'd hoped but decided to call it done.  I used Zbrush and photoshop for this.  ZBrush is getting a lot better, or should I say, I'm getting better at using clipping brushes etc. still a little bubblegummy in certain area's, but I'll get there  :)

The tall lady Grey

A female alien study  :)   She's not exactly grey, but was meant to be inspired by the Grey alien typical design.  Done in ZBrush and Photoshop.  Just updated with a different view and close up  :)

dragony beasty!

Here's a wee beasty I did a sketch of ages ago. Did a photoshop pass over the top, and thought I'd post it up. There's a body to this guy, and also a plan to sculpt two of them battling! So more to come on this guy. But I figured, who doesn't like giant reptiles battling? So I'm going to get onto that as soon as I can!

alien head

Considering the weather was quite shite today, I decided to stay in, and play on my laptop, I cranked this guy out in a few of hours. Used me good old tools, Zbrush and Photoshop and had a bit of help from my brain and hands. Started with an old base from another model. Just a bit of fun playing on my new bamboo and pretty happy with what I was able to do. Definitely recommend them to anyone wanting to get one for your laptop, painting on the couch has never been so fun! :)

A Alien

I did this sketch for a project of mine, but didn't feel the overall design was what I wanted, but rather liked it anyway for what it was. Jut a quicky done in Photoshops.

Pray for dawn

I was asked to do a couple of concept pieces for Stephen Batchelors, Pray for Dawn
based on Stephens descriptions on the characters. I made up these two over the weekend. Done in Photoshops!