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This was done as a concept for The Ruins. I loved the book and was really stocked to get a shot at doing the movie poster for it. Rather than showing vines engulfing a person (like what they went with), I wanted to make a more serene image. I wanted to focus on the vine getting inside these people – both physically and mentally. To me, having the girl in this picture quietly accept her fate, is creepier than if she were clawing at it.

For this picture, I combined photos of the flower and the girl from our photo shoot. I used the meat from the Saw 3 posters I did where the big flower is coming out. I painted (in Photoshop) the vines, shadows, and the somewhat pathetically drawn leaf in the middle of her back. The blurry leaves at the bottom are from a photo.]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 02:15:10 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595092

This was a created as a poster concept for the first Transformers movie. The 3D work (Optimus) was done by BLT & Associates and ILM. I made the girls legs in Poser. The rest, like the majority of my work is photo-manipulation (and some painting) in Photoshop.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:04:24 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/597181

This was done as the key art for Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. It's a combination of photo manipulation and painting in Photoshop. The title treatment was made in Illustrator. The tentacles are illustrated, as is the head hanging in the background.

The rest is photo manipulation, with the exception of Jack's face, which is 50% photo and 50% painted since the model I used in the photo shoot didn't look like the actor from the movie. I kept the models eyes and mouth, photoshopped in the hat, hair and ears, then painted a new nose, beard, neck and eyebrows.

Hope you like it, and thanks for looking!]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:28:44 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595112

This is the key art I made for a little movie called In My Sleep.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:42:28 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595120

This was done as a concept for Wristcutters: A Love Story. It's a weird little movie that I liked quite a bit.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:03:59 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595108

Art for a teaser poster for a movie that will probably never be made.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:34:51 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595118

Done as a teaser concept for Stardust.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:58:59 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595107

This was done for Die Hard 4. In their original photos, the car and chopper hadn't collided yet. I used Photoshop to combine the photos and added some stock explosions and debris.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:33:07 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595102

An addict is trapped inside the maze of his own brain. The brain-maze was started in illustrator, then finished in Photoshop.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:24:38 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595100

The hand is reaching up for help, but the trappings of addiction are omnipresent.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:20:04 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/489842

This is one of the images used for the outdoor ads for Spider-man 3. The pose that Spider-man is in did not exist in the photography provided, so this was frankenstiened together form over 20 different Spider-man images (pretty much every joint is a separate photograph. The webbing on his suit was then painted in to blend where gaps existed.]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:30:35 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/489824

This series was done to be used as a backdrop for the red carpet at the Spider-man 3 premiere. I did the 2 images in the middle. The first and last positions had already been made as billboards (with slightly different backgrounds). My assignment was to bridge the two existing images into a series showing the symbiote overtaking Spider-man. I combined a few different Spider-man images from the photo-shoot to get the poses I wanted and painted the goo using a Wacom and Photoshop.]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:44:36 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/490165

This piece was created as a comp for the X-Men 3 international campaign (sadly, it was never printed). I usually ignore the standard 27 X 40 inch poster size when I start on a project. I make a scene that I'm happy with, then figure out how to crop into it. Like the Spider-man peices I've posted combines digital illustration and photo manipulation. Evey charicter is combined from 3-10 pictures, so I could pose them the way I wanted. This image took well over 100 photos to piece together.]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:00:26 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/490171

This was a poster concept for Saw 3. It was my wife's idea and she was nice enough to model for it as well. Showing three body parts in a row was looking kind of silly, so she had the idea to cut one body part into three.

As usual, this is a photo montage (my wife, a cantaloup and beef tenderloin) and digital illustration.]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:18:38 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/490173

Another concept for the Saw 3 poster. I tried to learn 3D Studio Max to construct the Teeth, but after about 15 minutes I realized it would take years before I'd be proficient enough to render the kind of teeth I wanted, so I made these out of silicone used for earplugs. The image, like always is a photo montage/digital illustration mix.]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:26:22 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595125

A flaming skull made out of flames. This one was fun to do. This was done for Ghost Rider. My intent was to make a graphic image that one could imagine getting as a tattoo.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:19:59 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/595110

The 3D skull for this was made at BLT & Associates. I did the rest in Photoshop as a concept for the Ghost Rider teaser poster.]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:38:29 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/490185

With the expectation that it would be rejected (it was), I wanted to do an illustrated poster for The Decent. A movie where five female climbers descend into a cave and encounter scary monsters.]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:56:42 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/490180

A rare instance when photo manipulation isn't a component in my work! This was drawn in Illustrator, then I brought it into Photoshop for coloring. It was originally done as a poster concept for A Good Woman.]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:42:01 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/490175

This was done for the movie Trade. The tear is intended to be a bit hyper-real. It's supposed to call attention to itself rather than appear natural.]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:35:06 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/490263

This was done for a logo of a little company I used to run. Completed entirely in Photoshop without the benefit of photo manipulation (a rarity for me at this point).]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:51:06 +0000 http://theroboteye.cgsociety.org/gallery/493959

My wife and I got married on a riverboat and, in place of dancing, we had a casino night after the ceremony. We collaborated on these cards to be give to our guests as a keepsake. She sketched the characters in pencil, then I rendered them in Illustrator and Photoshop.]]> Tue, 08 May 2007 07:40:25 +0000