Here' some progress on the album cover I've been working on. The main concepts are all specified by the client, I just put them down on paper in my own style (which in this case I borrowed heavily from the pin-up girls of the 40s and 50s). The colors are really a whole lot nicer in person, but I had to take a crappy picture with my digital camera. I need to get access to a larger scanner than I have (It's about 12" x 12"). I've painted some more detail since this was taken, but when the final version is ready, high res. image with the lettering and all, I'll be sure to post it.
So I've been hired to create a monster for a short, independent film, which I'm really excited about. The realistic version is more along the lines of how the final CG model will look. Up to now I've been keeping him pretty cartoony, as the bottom versions show. But the character is going to be integrated into a live action short, so the realism is necessary to keep with the look of the film. Because the director wants to create a monster who is both endearing and frightening, I need the audience to sense his disposition is a friendly one, but that he can turn quickly and become a monster in the true sense of the word. I'll be sure to post the colored version of the realistic monster as soon as I finish.
Here are two (very compressed) versions of a small segment I did for a long distance telephone company's TV commercial. I gave them these two versions along with two others where the countries didn't "pop", for clarities sake (just in case). Not much, but I figured I'de post it since I've been slacking on the blog the last couple of weeks.