Bump and Krash! - Car Combat Game for Facebook!

I've been quiet about the game I've been doing work on as the art director for some time now. It's called Bump and Krash, and we're slated to release it later this year for Facebook and the iPhone!

The game draws it's inspirations from classic car combat games such as Hover!, but with a splash of Tron and Mario Kart to make the experience electric and fun for all ages!

I've been working with a great crew of people all over the world! We're currently in the stages of preproduction, and working our way into full swing production later this year! We're working doing updates on this title as often as possible with some concept art and small gameplay trailers like the following:



A few pieces of concept art created for gameplay:





If you're interested in being updated about the game, feel free to find us on facebook, comment here or e-mail me! I'll answer what questions I can and give periodic updates here about the state of the games production!

Bump and Krashes Facebook page:

Stone Arch Festival - Thank You!

Just wanted to shout out a quick thank you to everyone who came down to the festival and hung out around our booth! It was a pleasure being out in the crowd and having so many wonderful comments about the art we were selling! I'll probably be signing up for Fallcon this year in Minneapolis! I plan to sell some comic and animation work, as well as some Vinyl or handmade Socket Bunny toys, postcards and other things.

If you're interested in seeing more of my work and are interested in buying some of the stuff that was at the fest, but you didn't have the money or felt sure, feel free to visit my ETSY account, which I will be updating soon with all the leftovers from Stone Arch.

Sockey Bunny - Baby Bunnin

Created a new socket bunny model! Have I look! I've brained stormed a brief sort that these three characters will be participating in. Hopefully the short itself won't take me super long to do. The rigging, etc, on these characters should be relatively simple.



Enjoy!

Socket Bunny - Red Bunnin Model!

Quick render of another Socket Bunny model I'm working on!


More to come! Going to probably print these out as toys sometime soonish! I need to clean up the model itself a bit though.

EDIT:

more painted socket bunnies! Almost done for for the festival Saturday!

Some Sketchings and Boston Photos!

Did these while I was in Boston on the plane there and back! I now have a Moleskin sketchbook and I love it to death! I'll never go back to old types of sketch books!





Speaking of Boston! I visited there last weekend with a friend and took many awesome pictures of the city itself. It was an amazing place, a lot of history and a lot of street layouts that made me want to both claw my eyes out and revel in the brick work beauty of some of it. The city was designed after very old road systems before cars or the conception of city grid layouts really happened. Have some pictures and be merry! That is not a request....

Graphic Design and Socket Bunny Modeling

I'm working at MCAD this summer doing Summer Expresson sessions with some high schoolers as a Graphic Design teaching assistant. The kids are awesome and I'm having a fun time teaching them. Today I was asked to put together a poster example for the students to show them how you can create illustration and layout simply with type. It was a fun exercise and one that I really enjoyed.

The poster is composed of lyrics copyrighted to a musician I love named Goldfrapp. The song is called Happiness on her album Seventh Tree. She does a lot of Trip-Hop, and the most recent album is composed of more indie smooth and mellow acoustic. I love her voice and songs, they are so strange, beautiful, powerful and inspiring to me as an artist and designer.


I've also been slowly working on creating some models of these socket bunny characters which I am thinking of printing out in a rapid prototyper soon and figuring out how to market them to a distribution line.

Also doing some more art for the Stone Arch Arts Fest of hadmade Socket Bunny toys made out of found objects of plugs. I'm going to be staying up tonight to finish the painting for these (I hope). Also creating some baskets and doing prints for the Stone Arch Festival in Minneapolis this weekend. If you're in town and want to come down and say hey, feel free! The festival is going on June 20th and 21st!

If the Socket Bunny stuff doesn't sell as well as I hope I'll be putting these little guys up for sale on my ETSY shop! Including any left over buttons and postcards. I am also dabbling in the idea of producing an animated short about the bunnies to promote them and also to have fun, but I'm not so sure, I have a few ideas rolling around for my next large project! I've really enjoyed the challenge of doing the combination of 2D and 3D for Marauder's Mistake, and am thinking of just going in a completely different direction and trying a tool and style that I haven't before to see how it works out!

Pete Docter Radio Interview

Great interview with Pete Docter, the director of Pixar's newest film, UP, can be found here! I've seen UP twice all ready and absolutely loved it! Go see it if you haven't yet!



Pete has now become my favorite Pixar director over Andrew Stanton. His films tone and mood have such a wicked sense of physical comedy, touching scenes and great storytelling. How can you go wrong?