Jordu Schell class recap: Mask molds and Maquette update

Hey everyone, just posting some pics from my adventures into sculpting. Jordu's 5 week class ended this week but it gave me a great insight into the world of 3d and sculpting. That weekend we poured latex into our molds and the next day pulled them out. That whole night felt like Christmas eve lol, excited for sure. The mask came out OK, the latex seemed to pick up some of the plaster dust and there's some retouching to be done with air bubbles but I'll need to pick up a dremel tool to smooth out imperfections and eventually I'd be awesome if i could pick up some airbrush or PAX paint to give my mask some life. But my current budget and situation says different. One day.

As for my maquette last week we started our armatures and began adding super sculpey to them. At first using sculpey was a bit rough, lots of finger prints. But as the week went by it started shaping up. Even though class is over i'm still working it and hopefully be able to bake it when im done. No pics of the current version but I've started to add skin wrinkles and textures. Probably need to find some finer detail tools for the head but so far I'm feeling very good about it than a week ago. Confidence in sculpey medium definitely up. More to come...

Eh, maybe I'll stick with 2D :-p

Creature sculpting Day 3 and Vandal Hearts

Hey everyone, just posting some pics from Day 3 of Jordu Schell's class. We finished up our head sculpts before lunch. Here are some pics of my clay sculpt...

Here's Mindy Lee's.

 

And some pics of the rest of the class. Thanks to Elise Choo for some of these pics.

Next we plastered over the clay and after cooling off we began digging out the clay. Having never done a mold, sad to see that clay go bye bye.

 

To be continued next week with latex masks!

Oh yeah, I totally forgot to post this last week. About a year ago I did some contract work at Technicolor Interactive on the cinematics for the newly released Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment game out on XBLA and PSN. They never did let me keep the artwork but you can see the trailer with a lot of the cinematics. Hard to really say what was mine because it was a team effort, everyone working on different parts like characters and environments, props for the motion graphic cinematics. I met some great friends working there and I would love work with them again someday.

Video Games | Vandal Hearts: FJ | Daldren Grey Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Jordu Schell Sculpture Class and ImagineFX issue 52

Hey everyone, January flew by pretty fast thanks to freelance, job interviews and this creature sculpture class instructed by Jordu Schell, you may have seen a small indie movie he worked on lately, they call it "Avatar". Pretty stunning to see his sculptures and maquettes in his workshop. I'm taking the class with my friend Mindy, check out her work it's gorgeous. First project is a mask mold. This is a work in progress, should be done next week but I took some photos while working on it first day and during the homework week.

And finally, I'm featured in the FXpose section of issue 52 of ImagineFX. If you havent seen it already, check it out. A friend of mine, Brian Yam, is also featured doing a step by step environment as well.

Happy New Year and some art!

Happy new year everyone! Hope you all had a great holiday. I'm ready for a fruitful 2010. Here are some new characters for the portfolio I worked out during the holidays.

edit- oh yes forgot to mention i used these parchment papers from photoshopbrushes.com

Cover Contest piece finished

Hey there everyone, hope you're all having a great holiday season. I just finished up some freelance last week as well as my entry for the Imagine FX cover contest. Currently I'm available and still looking for new freelance and full-time studio positions in the film, animation and game industry and am willing to relocate. Working on some new concepts in the meanwhile, hopefully I'll post them before the holidays but if you don't hear from me, I wish everyone a happy holiday with your friends and families and see ya in the next "hopefully better" year :)

WIP update

Quick update

Gobble gobble

Good morning everyone and happy turkey week. The pace of life is speeding up and as always trying to keep up on job hunting, portfolio tweaking and networking. Feeling very positive about finding a new place to be at. Just a quick update on the ImagineFX cover contest piece. I think its coming a long very well, I'm open for critiques and suggestions. Have a great week!

ImagineFX cover contest WIP

Here's a quick work in progress peek at my entry for the ImagineFX cover contest. I'm hoping to win for the Cintiq, being on the cover would be nice too :p

Concept- I wanted to use my Project Henshin story as a subject matter for this illustration. I knew I wanted this to be dynamic and action filled, something I would have fun painting and that showed excitement.

Thumbs

Abandoned comp and current comp after art critique along with a friends thumbnail composition sketch.

Holiday Card 2009 and The Chinbot Process Blog

It's that time of the year again and I wanted to share with you my holiday card. This year I actually printed my card as physical postcards to send to my friends in the industry and family. It was certainly a learning experience and glad to see that printing access has become cheaper and cheaper since I left college. Overnightprints did a great job I have to say, I caught them during a postcard sale too. If someone didn't get a postcard by now I probably didn't know you're address, sorry. Lemme know if you want me to send you one. I've also created another blog dealing with all the illustration process so please check it out for a in-depth look at how I created this piece. Happy holidays everyone...

http://chinbot.blogspot.com/

New Carbonmade, Iphone app and some wallpapers!

Well, we've survived the zombie apocalypse, reached the safe room and its back to work. And what a great way to start the day by checking out my new updated carbonmade site. I'd love to hear your thoughts and definitely please let your art director friends know too because I'm looking!

http://kevinchin.carbonmade.com

Oh and for you Iphone/ipod touch users, please check out this game app that I did some illustration work for. I did the title screen and the hi-score/ level up screens. Definitely pick up the lite version to see the art and demo the game!

Ink Balloons Lite version

...and don't forget to pick up a wallpaper for the kiddies before you leave. Please let me know if you like them or what other art pieces would be great for wallpapers, I'd love to hear. Have a great day everyone!

You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning...

Batman designs

Hey everyone, its been a month since the last post. Been working through some things but here is some brand spanking new art inspired by the new Batman game that recently came out. It's so good that its got me excited and making pieces for the sequel for it! Here are a few images from the first pass character designs and an environment I worked on. Going to start on second pass details for the characters.

Business cards and sketches and turtles

Hey everyone, its been a while so I thought I'd update the blog. During the summer I was busy doing some freelance which was awesome but now its back to sending resumes and portfolios. So yeah thats what I'm doing mostly these days. It's been almost one year since things hit rock bottom both relationship and employment-wise, I know everyones been having a rough time with the latter though.

Anywho, here's some recent sketches, some from the ashcan book I was planning on making. Oh, and picture of the new business cards I ordered at overnightprints.com. They do a good job, all you need to do is upload your files and they do the printing, genius!