Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Dead Man's Chest PSP

images courtesy of IGN...




Hey folks, check it out, the game that Ive been working on for the past year and couple months, is finally getting some press. I cant wait to see what people think of the game. We had a lot of fun making it. IGN interviewed our producer Matt Turnbull, who's a great producer. Check it out..it's a pretty good read. All of Jack Sparrow's gameplay moves were done by your's truly. You can actually see a game trailer on ign's site as well. Shows a lil bit of what to look forward to.

IGN Article with Matt Turnbull

letting the pen go tonight

not really thinking, just going with where the pen takes me, I kinda like how it turned out, I know it's not anything great, but I had fun.

sketch3-30 redhead

inspired by this post on the drawing board I came up with this lil sketch.

sketch 3-29

sketch from yesterday

sketch 3-28

Got inspired to pick up the pencil and sketch yesterday.

one mo fig

one more since I could only upload 5 at a time.

tata

yesterdays figure drawings and a hello!

hey friends, long time no blog. Long time no pick up the pencil either... :( Been super busy trying to get this Pirates thing all done up and ready to go. Also the freelance has been going all last Feb as well. Been busy as of late. Work, family, and freelance makes for a very busy life.

Anyways, here are some figure drawings from yesterday's session that I attended. It was nice to pick up the pencil again. I need to do it more often. I can see some glimmer of hope in my drawings but still see a TON of flaws. But that's why I share them here, if you have any comments on what could get my work to that next level please feel free. Im a professional and can take constructive criticism with the best of them.

Hope to get the blog thing going again. We'll see how the freelance goes. :)

A big WERD! to my pals who support me and to new readers thanks for stoppin on in. On to the drawings

Guitar madness

Guitar madness
Originally uploaded by Hideki Saito.

The life of a game developer is sure hard work "sometimes". Both Danny and I rockin out the "Guitar Hero". Killer game btw.

SEAHAWKS headin to SuperBowl XL!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, Im a happy footballer today!!! hehe Im a fan of the Bus, but hope for the Steelers demise!! Go Hawks!

Jolly ol St Nicholas..

This was just a little something I was playing with in photoshop. Hope ya'll have a good Xmas. I know I will, I have the week after Christmas off from work!! yeah boyee...Our alpha is in January, so my January is gonna be a fun one!! hehe

Which Superhero are you? Results

I took this test off my buddy Ravo's site Here's who I would be, if I was a superhero mind you. I always had a stong liking for this fella...

Your results:
You are Superman

Superman 100% Green Lantern 85% Robin 75% The Flash 70% Batman 70% Spider-Man 65% Iron Man 60% Wonder Woman 50% Supergirl 50% Catwoman 45% Hulk 40%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

Yahoo! Movies - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Yahoo! Movies - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

The trailer is out now, looks awesome, I cant wait to see it. Fun to see some of what Jack is up to this time around. Working on the game we get to see a lot of the concepts and what not for the movie which is pretty dang cool. It's gonna blow the other movie away imo.

hoop inspired!

after playing some hoops tonight I was inspired. A little different than normal, just hitting the lasso tool trying to find the shapes. It was a fun exercise anyways...

quickie sketches for the night

been inspired by all the great's in the blogosphere lately. My daughter playing in the snow today might of helped with the lil sketch of her playing. Thought Id share. Here goes, hope to stay inspired and draw more, so easy to get frustrated and give up, but alas I keep coming back for more punishment :D

Superman Returns Teaser Online!

Brings a tear to the eye...Wow, this looks amazing just with the short bits and pieces, but man, this teaser gave me chills. I love Singer's work here...Summer 2k6 cannot come any sooner...

Thanks to my other Superman homey Ravo for pointing it out!

Who's awake at this hr?

Hey friends, what's up? Wow, a whole month has gone by without a post by me... My lack of posts are for good reason, Ive been super busy at my day jobby doing animations of Jack Sparrow kickin bootay, and by night Ive taken on helping out Liquid Development on a game currently in production (that I can't talk about) hehe gotta love this industry...Get to see stuff before it comes out to the masses. Ive felt like I should post something just to let people know that Im still alive and still doing the art thing animating to my hearts content. Getting lots of animation practice in, which is helping me get better, which I need, but Im very critical of my work, so this is a good thing. I recently made a demo reel, which is how I got work with Liquid. If any would like to see it please let me know and I can send you the link personally, I dont want to just give it out to the masses quite yet, plus I dont know what kinda bandwidth I might get tagged with. Dont want to be paying out the nose in bandwidth fees. It's around 30 megs or so.

I mainly use Maya at Amaze, but Liquid uses 3dStudioMax which is nice to have to get used to all over again, but it's just like riding a bike. It was funny I totally forgot how to copy a key in max, had to go to the help file to remember. It's nice knowing both programs though and will be good since Autodesk bought Alias anyways, just hope they keep Maya up and going for the long haul, it's such a way nicer program to use. I was very reluctant to switch over in the beginning to Alias, but now that I use it, I would miss using it to anything else.

ps dont know who came out in the sketch but just wanted to draw something so at least im coming with something...hehe

Modern fine artists!

WOw, long time, no blog friends. Whats up! Anyways, here are some recent finds that Ive come across that I find inspiring right now.

This guy can paint! Check him out. Morgan Weistling
I got Morgan's link from one of his friends that Ive recently started to read his blog. Very friendly chap! I found this guy from TheWardOMatic, his name is David Darrow and here is his site David Darrow David is another great painter himself. Check him out.

Morgan just released a DVD that Id like to pick up once I find $200 laying around. Also, been fooling with the notion of picking up some paints myself and trying my hand at the ol oil painting. Looks like fun.

Speaking of oil painting, a former co-worker has recently launched his site and his still life's are pretty amazing. I happen to own the pomegranate painting David is a super cool dude and hope his stuff takes off. Super talented cat.

The internet is so dang cool that artists and others as well can connect with each other. Thanks to those checkin my blog out. Hopefully I can be less sporadic and post more stuff I come across or post more of my work. I have some recent figure sessions that I can post, just need to get them scanned.

sketch8-30

quicksketch for the night. On the left is a caricature of myself. Kinda liked it. Simple but efficient.

Hot links!

Some really recent links to some really outstanding artists have been posted on various internet forums and other blogs that I go to check out that I thought I would share the one's that I've really been checking out a lot.

All the links are something special imo.

John Neverez is a Disney artist that recently had posted to the Drawing board, and he's also done a blog. Really appealing stuff he has. You can tell he's been at his craft for a long while now
http://john-nevarez.blogspot.com/

Stephen Silver is another really amazing Character designer who recently started blogging himself which is awesome to see. Looks like he posts to 2 blogs, his own and sketchclub which is with another artist by the name of Marcelo.
http://sketchclub.blogspot.com/
and
http://stephensilver.blogspot.com/

Harald Siepermann is another awesome character designer for all kinds of great films that I find inspirational. I came across his gallery site browsing the Drawing Board at one point, Thorsten Hasenkamm pointed out his gallery. Here that is
Harald Siepermann gallery
Also recently started blogging as well.
Harald Siepermann blog

Justin Ridge I just recently came across his work. Awesome stuff.
Justin Ridge blog

Definitely stuff to aspire to, makes me want to get out the stick of lead and draw, which is what it's all about. Inspiration. Hopefully they inspire you too. Good day!

Badly drawn right arm

drawing for the night. Dont know where the right arm came from but Im drawing, and that's a good thing.