"Leaves on the track"

Just an apology in the lack of 'owt new recently. My head hasnt been in the right place for in as I've got a gazillion things on the go - Redecorating the house (Bathroom, garden and kitchen ouch!) plus I need to get some work freelance or fulltime so I'm kinda stressing at the minute hence the lack of concetration and thus, new work.

I have a few things half done so their maybe a glut of stuff soon :)

Product Design - Kettle

In order to illustrate to prospective clients some of my 'skillz' I decided to go back to my product design roots and design a kettle. Not very glam I know, but it shows that I can do high res meshes as well as decent rendering, so here we have it.

I'll be getting down and dirty with mental ray in the forthcoming weeks so the renders should get better, plus this was done in 'Max' which I have limited knowledge of the renderer, lights and materials etc...thats my excuse and Im sticking to it.

By the way I feel I should tell you that im doing this as an agent told me my concept stuff was strong enough but my 3d needed different types of stuff to make me more 'marketable' to an array of industries.

Expect some loose pretty painting as a direct back lash to this :)

'The Summoning'

This is a 'speed' paint I did for a dragon jam on drawingboard.org - It wasn't that speedy but I'm pretty happy with it .... for now.

Vikings are the new black FACT!

Well there seems to be a lot of ‘Viking’ presence on various art sites nowadays so I thought I'd jump on a bandwagon seeing as it was passing. I thought I'd try and push a 'cartoon network' style concentrating on bold shapes and details that don’t break the shapes' boundary.

Ta - Daaaa....

Okay I know I've been quiet of late, but I've been freelancing doing some outsource work AND some teaching which is very cool but very scary as you just never know what is going to happen.

So when I've not been trekking into the London I've redesigned my webiste. I've tried to keep it clean and simple and easy to add/replace new works.

www.jasonpickthall.com

Most of the new stuff is the content from this blog but there are some examples of my 3d game work and other miscellaneous stuff.

Li'l Gods - Ares

Here is a preliminary design for Ares the main villain of the piece

Li'l Gods - 3D Cyclops WIP

Here is a 3D Interpretation on the cyclops design I did a few months ago. This is not to say that the whole thing is now 3D but I just used it as an excercise in familiarizing myself 3D Max again. Also once I have Mudbox on my machine i'll use to practice adding surface detail.

It's like a jungle sometimes....

About 2 hours worth, Im pretty chuffed with it, well, for the next 10 mins at least.

3D - RP7 Rocket Launcher

I know there is some 3D stuff creeping in here but I thought I'd post it as a means of almost justifying my lack of fresh 2D work. This was a freelance paid job for a 'next gen' game. Not inspirational but hey, it pays the bills.

I'm almost sad to put this up here as it really jars with some of the more stylized and innocent things I've posted here....hmmm

20 Second Scribbles

Okay, I know these won't win any prizes but they were done in china, on the fly, and in probably 20 ish seconds so, y'know, be kind. PLUS they were done with a real biro on real paper, practically stone age technology I know, Tsk madness I tells ya

I know it's 3D ...Sorry...

This the initial 3D work up - some extra stroke work will be done in flash to keep a tighter sense of control. As I say I know it's not sketch work, but I thought it was only fair to introduce the culprit thats kept me from my beloved 2D stuff :)

Introducing...Reece Deceased

This is a pet project of my friend Meechy. It's an episodic flash cartoon that can be found at...http://www.reecedeceased.com/ - I've been working on some 3D tests for him to make his work with vectors a litter easier.

Misc Speedpaint

Just a random speedpaint to keep some kind of momentum going.....

I'm BACK! Baby

Well it is really a case of just getting back on the saddle, so no elaborate scene or composition just a character design. Just a one off, no real back story or anything...sorry

CLICKY for bigger - looks better

PS for any newcomers to my humble blog check the archives over there on the right ->

Normal Service will resume - Promise :)

Okay, its been sparse of late but I have good reason. I recently moved back to the UK from Australia. On they way I did a month in China. Now Im getting back into things at home in the UK, and now its xmas and to top it off I l have lots of freelance stuff to do so time has been of a premium of late. I'll add some crumby biro quickies I did in china shortly and hopefully over xmas I'll get back into something that resembles a routine.

Whoa! Has it just got dark in here?

I'm not entirely sure why but I fancied doing something rather macabre. Yeah, im rather disturbed too.

To be honest i'm reading 'Legend' by David Gemmill at the minute and there are constant references to crows feasting on the dead in battle so voila...

Inevitably......A 'Roo

Ozzy Tree Frog

The Kookaburra

Yeah I know not exactly the coolest or interesting of creatures but trust me, these guys are bloody noisy early (very early) in the morning so I thought I'd do a picture of one. That and the fact that im slightly high on flu medicine so I wasnt in the mood for anything too taxing. I'll make it up tomorrow with a tree frog or something.

The Living Dinosaur - Cassowary

Australia is renowned for its unique wildlife. The animal that grabbed me the most is the Cassowary. Looking at this creature its not such a leap to imagine Dinosaurs having feathers. It looks like something straight out of Jurassic Park. Its related to the Ostrich, Emu and the Kiwi and found in the rainforests of northern queensland. This are aggressive and can attack people, seriously, how cool and terrifying is that!

Anyway I was inspired by its colours and the creat on its head, which, incidentlly they use to cut through the forests at high speed with their heads down.

This pic took about 1 and half hours in Photoshop using all manner of brushes to obtain the texture.