Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Queens Club Killers Poster


These are 3 poster designs created for the game "Queens Club Killers". The smaller ones were just thumbnail concepts not completed to full size. The third one was chosen as the "final" base design and was then recreated as both an 11x14 inch mini poster and as the first draft of the box art design.

I'll post color concept versions of the full box art and poster another time

Storyboarding Queens Club Killers


This is a storyboard design for the intro sequence of the game "Queens Club Killers". The Queens Club is an all female assassin team (think: Kill Bill). The sequence is a short and simple "hanging from ledge, sneak into roof top entrance, find target, shoot target, cut to title page" but was done just to block out camera angles, movements and closeup shots.

Note: the character models are not my own creations (except for the last one - title page). The layout and design are mine.

The images were created by taking photographs of existing assets and piecing them together to create a storyboard. I took over 200 photographs of various angles, tested dozens of layouts, poses and camera angles and finalized the shots by mixing pictures together to create new scenes and adding special effects with photoshop. The intent is not to show off the artwork but rather to show off the concept for what needs to be created as an intro to the game.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Pencil + Digital Paint



This was a pencil sketch I did of Scarlett Johansson (based on photo references) scanned and colored in Photoshop. I like doing color with digital paint, I don't seem to get as much detail trying to do it with color pencil or marker.

First is is a comparison of part of the image in pencil vs the same area in digital color. Second is the entire image in color. Unfortunately I have to shrink it pretty small to upload it here as a jpg, the original is actually 11"x14" in pdf format (30mb) so it can be printed on small posters. And don't bother being offended by the title (The kindap and torture of Scarlett Johansson) it's based on a short story where she fakes her own kidnapping for publicity so it's not really a torture story.