Blizzard Trio

Recently I had the opportunity to paint this trio of characters -- obviously one each from the three main Blizzard titles.  Ever since I started working there, I have been DYING to paint a hydralisk, so this was a welcome treat :)

They were painted in a way that they can be used independently or grouped, and in super high res so they can be printed very very big.  Fun stuff!

The Burdens of Shaohao are now all out!

The last part of Shaohao's was released at the end of last week!  There are 6, including the prelude in my last post.  We learned a lot through the production of all of them .. for me they get better and better every time.  To watch all 6 in sequence, go first to the prelude I linked before.

Shoutout to Doug Alexander, Lucas Merino, Josh Horst, Micky Nielsen and all the other people who helped to put it out - tons of work went in and I'm just happy to have been a part of it.

The Burdens of Shaohao

Feeling lucky today that a project I've been working on for more than a year has finally started its release!  I did the final 2D components of the art, (i.e., the painting part) while the story, storyboarding, animation, editing and sound were all handled by various amazing people all over Blizzard.  I learned a ton about storytelling and I'm so glad to have had the opportunity to be a part of it.

Thanks to everybody who took part, and everybody who watches :)

There will be 5 more parts, so stay tuned...

Back from Comic Con!

... and we had giant pandas at our booth!  I did this piece about a year ago for the Mists of Pandaria launch, and he's been seeing a bit of use here and there since.

He's life sized!  Or thereabouts...

Thanks to everybody who stopped by the booth.  It was an awesome time -- like always, packed full of too many amazing things to see.  Next year, would everybody please stop having so many amazing prints, books, toys and plushie pleisiosaurs?  My wallet cannot handle the awesome.

Zombie Unicorn -- now with paint!

Finally finished this guy!  Also... finally made a lightbox so I can get half-decent photos of these things.  Not much to say about it... I just felt like sculpting an undead unicorn.

Hearthstone Launch Art

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to paint an image that would be the announcement piece for Blizzard's new digital card game, Hearthstone.

Orc wins!

I figure you blog readers might like to know, beyond its blizzard-y content, I based the composition loosely around one of my very favourite paintings -- The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ilya Repin.

 There are few works of art that I think get across such a great sense of story.  Repin was a master of this.  I learned a lot about story with this piece -- makes you wish the man were still alive so we could all go ask him :)

Gnomon Live 2012

I had the good luck to have been invited to give a presentation at Gnomon Live 2012 in Hollywood this past weekend.  I'm really happy to have gone - to be part of the same lineup as such other amazing artists was a privilege.

Here's the piece I did to demonstrate different methods of creature rendering.

 

 

Thanks to everybody who turned out!

 

Zombie unicorn will cut you in the face!!

So it's been a fair while since I sculpted anything, and I was feeling the vacuum keenly for a while before I started this little fellow (ok, he's not that little, it's about 10 inches tall or thereabouts).  I dub him... creepy zombie unicorn thing!  Or.. I dunno... I'm not the best with names.

He is destined for a disgusting zombie paintjob and a mane/tail/fetlock/beard extravaganza with some doll hair I managed to get my greasy paws on.  I do love doll hair.  Hope you all enjoy!  I will post more pics when I have them.