Creative Creations of Chris

Sketches and stuff

2012-01-20T01:59:00.000-08:00

After I finished comping this page up I realized I'd forgotten the cowboy, so he got his own image.

I've reached a point of acceptance that I'm never going to finish this one, so here it is in all it's unfinished glory.

Some Multi-Dimensional Sketches

2012-01-09T23:23:00.000-08:00

I was thinking Space Pirate

Don't forget your roots... Your face roots.

On his world this is the expression you make in the awkward pause when someone's said something slightly inappropriate...

Wrestler Unstoppable Concept Art

2011-10-28T17:40:00.000-07:00

A few thumbnails from the warehouse concept

Some of the concepts I completed for the social game Wrestler Unstoppable. Its a turn based 3D fighting game. The characters are actual in engine 3D while the backgrounds are pre-rendered 3D. I also did most of the texturing and all the shading and lighting for the 3D backgrounds which I won't post yet since they're not actually in the game, but here's a preview >:)

Once Upon A Time...

2011-10-27T03:13:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time there was a game that wasn't meant to be. In that time there was an artist who did a lot of work to try and make this game pretty and fun. But one day the artist was told that the game was getting "shelved" which the artist found out later really meant tossed into a deep abyss to never be spoken of again. Then one day about year after the game had been shelved, the artist found the work from the long forgotten game, and decided to show it to a select group of chosen... okay I'll stop. Yea lots of sketches and early exploration for a title that never saw the light of day. Such is the biz I guess.

Sculptris Sketch

2011-10-26T01:52:00.000-07:00

Sooooo... GET THIS PROGRAM!!! It is super easy to use and by far the simplest 3D app I have ever used, and I've touched most of them, except Sketchup which I've heard is also super simple, anyway it's like mini-Z-brush without all the complexity. If you just want to open something and get straight to sculpting without worrying about much else I recommend Sculptris 150%. Oh and I haven't told you the best part... IT'S FREE!!!!

Japanese Tea Gardens

2011-10-15T19:40:00.000-07:00

I've lived in San Francisco for like seven years now and today was actually my first time going to the Japanese Tea Gardens. I've just always been a cheapskate and didn't want to pay to get in, but I forked over the seven bucks today because I wanted to try out the new HDR camera on my iPhone. It's pretty sweet for a phone camera, but obviously these photos have all been heavily tweaked in Photoshop. Hope you like :D

2 for 1

2011-10-13T01:42:00.000-07:00

So I did this ballpoint sketch in a meeting at work this morning and decided to splash some color on it, then after all that color splashing I desaturated it to check out the values and I was like hmm, that kinda looks cool too, and I couldn't decide between the two so I posted both... in case you were wondering.

Bishop

2011-10-09T02:48:00.000-07:00

+ 1 other random doodle. PS the new blogger analytics stuff is cool.

Oiran

2011-10-01T20:43:00.001-07:00

A quickie...

Even a bad man loves his Mama

2011-09-28T10:26:00.001-07:00

I fail at blogging, but here's a painting.

A Buncha Randomness

2011-03-02T23:48:00.001-08:00

Some Kid

2011-01-06T20:50:00.001-08:00

iPad's are cool

2010-12-18T16:39:00.001-08:00

Some recent sketches, the 2nd and 3rd one were painted on my iPad, although I touched the third one up in PS :) Enjoy! I'll try to get back on posting regularly... :-/

Samurai Guy

2010-09-11T06:06:00.001-07:00

Sketchbook

2010-09-05T12:37:00.001-07:00

Post Often FAIL

2010-08-17T09:41:00.000-07:00

well that didn't work...

Daily 31_The End

2010-08-02T01:56:00.000-07:00

I randomly started the daily posting thing on a whim just to give my blog a little life support, I'd say mission accomplished. While I think it was easier for me to challenge myself with "post something daily" the new challenge is probably going to be harder, with "post something often" we'll see how it goes. Thanks for coming :)

Daily 30

2010-08-01T01:36:00.001-07:00

Daily 29_Sb

2010-07-31T01:48:00.001-07:00

Daily 28

2010-07-30T02:29:00.001-07:00

Daily 27_Butterfly

2010-07-28T23:43:00.000-07:00

Daily 26_Climb

2010-07-27T11:56:00.000-07:00

Daily 25

2010-07-26T23:50:00.001-07:00

I think this is the last treehouse...

Daily 24_Scratches

2010-07-26T01:13:00.001-07:00

A hop, skip, and jump out of my comfort zone.

Daily 23_WIP Moran Study

2010-07-25T11:47:00.001-07:00

Try to finish it up today

Daily 22

2010-07-23T22:48:00.001-07:00

Daily 21

2010-07-22T23:02:00.000-07:00

Daily 20_Costume Thumbs

2010-07-21T22:58:00.001-07:00

These were for a story I was working on, haven't decided what I want to do with it yet :/

Daily 19

2010-07-21T01:33:00.000-07:00

Daily 18_World Dominator

2010-07-20T03:32:00.001-07:00

Daily 17

2010-07-19T02:18:00.000-07:00

Daily 16

2010-07-17T18:56:00.000-07:00

Daily 15_Kiss

2010-07-16T23:02:00.001-07:00

Daily 14_Multiplied

2010-07-16T04:50:00.001-07:00

Daily 13_Artsy

2010-07-15T00:17:00.000-07:00

I get bit by the bug from time to time, I should more.

Daily 12_Random Sketches

2010-07-13T22:37:00.000-07:00

Random sketches and some studies of Renton from Eureka Seven.

Daily 11_Under Da Sea

2010-07-12T20:52:00.001-07:00

Soooo, this is some stuff I did for work on our game that we just launched Ocean Kingdom. So if you want to satisfy that internal need to play with digital fish and decorate a digital ocean, we've got you covered. I've pretty much had my hands in all the art for this game except for UI which is in the capable hands of other team members. This is mostly concept stuff, except for the background art which is what you will see in the game. As an extra special treat to those the look at my blog, background switching isn't in the game yet, but you can see some of the backgrounds that will soon be implemented here :D Aren't you glad you came?!?! I'm glad you did :)

Daily 10_Houses

2010-07-12T02:20:00.000-07:00

Daily 9_ Saturday Sketchin

2010-07-11T01:45:00.001-07:00

wish I could sit home and doodle everyday...

Daily 8_Ninjas

2010-07-10T01:34:00.000-07:00

It's an inside joke... sorry

Daily 7

2010-07-08T19:10:00.001-07:00

Daily 6_Studying Animation

2010-07-07T20:40:00.000-07:00

is something I think all artists can benefit from

Daily 5_Boys

2010-07-06T23:40:00.000-07:00

Daily 4_Something

2010-07-06T01:36:00.001-07:00

Probably shouldn't show this, but hopefully it will get drowned in daily posts :D

Daily 3_Dr. Gates

2010-07-05T00:16:00.001-07:00

A character from one of many incomplete personal projects I have floating around.

Daily 2

2010-07-04T01:26:00.001-07:00

Daily...

2010-07-03T02:24:00.001-07:00

let's see how long I can keep this up >:3

Cel-Shading Practice

2010-06-19T23:21:00.001-07:00

Downtime Doodles

2010-06-04T14:46:00.001-07:00

a sad update... but hopefully something cool soon :)

Work

2010-02-10T08:29:00.000-08:00

First post of some work stuff, a small selection of a few pieces that I don't hate. These are from the most recent game we've released Dante's Inferno (the facebook version) That we did in a partnership between lolapps and EA. It was definitely the most fun project I've had since I've been working there. Quick loose digital sketches that are going to be small enough that I can leave them pretty loose :) The other stuff is from Band of Heroes, it was the first game a did a lot of work on when I got there. It was pretty fun once I got over that "I'm cheating" feeling since it's made of all comped together old WW2 photos + Painting on top, coloring, adding smoke, explosions, etc.
Anyway here they are, ENJOY :)

Artwork(First Eleven Images) Copyright © Electronic Arts

Artwork(Last 9 Images) Copyright © Lolapps Media Inc.
(Fear the LolCat)

Profile Pic

2010-01-24T17:08:00.001-08:00

Manipulated my profile pic on facebook haha, people liked it, so I'm going to milk it for all its worth :p By the way Avatar is going to be the number 1 highest grossing movie in 1 or 2 days, so by the time you read this it will probably be number 1. I at least geek out to stuff that's awesome :)

Darken Rahl

2010-01-09T21:41:00.000-08:00

A sketch of one of my favorite bad guys from Terry Goodkinds Sword of Truth Series. Please don't watch the television version if you're interested in the story, it is Satan's piss in your eyes. In other news Avatar is my favorite movie of all time, fu*% what the critics say, if you haven't seen it, go see it. I'll be going to see it for the 5th time tomorrow. L8r peoples

I'm Alive!!!

2009-10-11T22:59:00.001-07:00

So I wanted to update my blog, but I don't really have anything to post, so here are some unfinished paintings that I'll hopefully be shamed enough by their crappiness to finish and re-post. Reason for lack of posting is I got a job (YAY 4 me!) So it pretty much takes up all my time. I have a bunch of new art from work, but I don't think I can post that stuff since the games aren't out yet :/ Anyway, thanks for stopping by, I'll try to update more regularly :) --Update-- Wow, I'm really taking my time with these haha, I'll try to work up the middle one some more this weekend.

Earthsea Stuff

2009-07-21T21:41:00.001-07:00

Some stuff for the Earthsea blog I'm doing with some friends, check it out, lot's of cool stuff, with more to come I'm sure. And also some random stuff.

Sketches

2009-06-21T03:16:00.001-07:00

Somewhere along the line I stopped posting my sketchbook, it's making a comeback :)

My Philosopher's Stone Board

2009-05-22T23:33:00.000-07:00

Since you won't see it in the show....... :/

P.S. Characters start

2009-05-01T17:44:00.000-07:00

some WIP character stuff. Got some good critiques that I wanna apply to these, but here's what I got so far

More Stuff

2009-04-24T00:29:00.000-07:00

Tree Palace stuff

2009-04-17T02:19:00.001-07:00

I think it looks cooler without the border :p

More Philosophers Stone stuff

Traditional Week

2009-04-10T01:26:00.000-07:00

The character concepts are people that live in the lower levels of the city, pollution has led to deformity and birth defects as well as good ol' fashion craziness. Inspired by late night MUNI rides :p

P.S. Round One

2009-04-03T07:42:00.001-07:00

First round of stuff for the Philosophers Stone story.

The Philosopher's Stone

2009-03-13T01:34:00.000-07:00

Just some thumbnails and sketches developing the concepts. My version of Hans Christian Andersen's The Philosopher's Stone
Spring Break! I'll definitely set aside a little time for random doodling :)

Yea

2009-03-06T10:02:00.001-08:00

Still in the Mousehole

2009-02-27T12:07:00.000-08:00

Stuff

2009-02-25T00:08:00.001-08:00

Circus

2009-02-20T09:06:00.001-08:00

Thumbie fell into a mouse hole.

Staging Designs

2009-02-13T01:21:00.000-08:00

more stuff for school, still gotta paint this interior one, interiors are a pain :(

Development

2009-02-09T21:05:00.001-08:00

Some stuff for school. Doing my own version of Thumbalina. Doesn't look like much yet, some of this stuff is already in the process of being redone, but hopefully I'll have something cool in the next few weeks.

Warm up

2009-01-21T01:08:00.000-08:00

Coming up on the last semester. Time to kick it up ten notches.

Some new stuff

2008-12-30T11:21:00.000-08:00

A study from the film "Wonderful Days"
From photo ref
last thing I did in drawing for film
study from "Howl's moving castle"

study from photo ref
a sketch
a rock, I like rocks

B&W Practice

2008-12-16T16:01:00.001-08:00

Poor Kids :(

2008-11-30T02:31:00.001-08:00

Drawing for Film

2008-11-15T20:58:00.001-08:00

It's hard.

Yup Yup

2008-11-04T22:35:00.000-08:00

Loose Change

2008-10-25T15:27:00.001-07:00

Muni, fashion, and random doodles
fashion workshop
this was the first house design, I was working on before I presented the silhouettes, it got rejected and never finished, I ended up liking the other one better anyway
this is Greg from Ben Jelter's The Tumor it was for the Weekly Challenge blog.

these were some color comps I did for the barbershop layout, I'm not thrilled about any of them, I need more practice with painting interiors :/

Snowy

2008-10-21T21:34:00.000-07:00

worthwhile procrastination

More Stuff

2008-10-15T06:24:00.001-07:00

Different stuff from Drawing for Film and Layout. I miss color.

Sketch Paint

2008-10-13T22:26:00.001-07:00

Stuff of recent times

2008-09-26T03:12:00.000-07:00

I screwed up those guitars :( (as well as other things)

Yaaay, the Orphan Works Act didn't pass, we all get to keep our work :)

Platoon

2008-08-09T02:32:00.001-07:00

A sketch inspired by the movie.

Weekly Challenge 4: Jungle Something

2008-08-03T01:31:00.000-07:00

A Quick Study

2008-07-30T21:53:00.000-07:00

Wanted to give the single layer thing a try