Painting

The portrait of me you see to the left was painted by Mary Quian, an artist I formerly worked with on MK:Deception and Armageddon. I think she must have painted almost everybody in the PD department at the Midway Chicago studio at one point or another.

Among other things, she was responsible for creating the "Falling Cliffs" level in Deception; very cool. My understanding is she moved on to character design and modelling after that.

She is a very talented 3D artist and has a strong passion for painting.

I can't say enough about how cool it is to be able to work with so many talented individuals in the video game development business.

Check out her website: http://www.maryqian.com/

Foam from Home Depot

I recently contacted technical art guru Chuck Ernst. I used to work with at Midway with him. He has this really cool 3D sculpting machine. He didn't have any cool pics available for that but he did send some shots of props he has made for his kid's daddy-daughter dances.

Above is one of the sculptures in it's finished state.

Shown above is what it starts out like.

Chuck Says all you have to do is this. "Yeah the sculptures are made of pink foam bought at home depot. The deal is to make something huge and thick you have to glue the stuff together. I create most pieces in 3d then print out the slices on a plotter to use as templates. I made most of my own sculpting tools, thick wire hooked up to super high output soldering irons. "

Sounds easy, huh?

One thing I have always enjoyed about the business I am in is that you get to work with incredibly talented people who do really cool things as hobbies.

Cool Artwork

A funny thing happened when I sent an email to Tim Coman about the blog post regarding X-Men. He said he was working on some artwork for a website.

Currently, Tim is an art director at Day-1 Studios, a high-caliber game development shop.

Check out some other pics if you like:

http://www.tcoman.com/gallery_concepts.html