Mind The Gap Artwork

A few months ago I offered to help out a friend with concept art for his screenplay, for which he was intending to create a portfolio and pitch it to prospective film producers. Here are my three favourite pieces:

This character is known as the ticket inspector, I had great fun designing and drawing him.

This is one of my favourite pieces i've done, showing a tree filled with sealife.


I drew and coloured this mutant spider, and comped it onto the background image.

Signs in the Crops

This month's concept is another Luntara inlay piece. Influenced by Luntara's song 'Signs' as well as the Mel gibson film of the same name, this piece took me a couple of hours to do. I am pleased with the perspective, as well as the crop texture which i made with noise and grain. It is surprisingly difficult to find birds eye views of untouched crops on the internet!

Robot Pirate Captain Update #1

Below is the original Concept art i had done for the Pirate Captain, along with the model sheet:

POD 003 - It's Da Bomb!

This is a Bomb design which will be featured in the POD 003 pilot show. It will be used by robotic space pirates to detonate a space station. I designed, modeled and textured the Bomb, including the happy bomb sticker! :)

The Scarecrow's Silent Laughing

To tantalise my concept tastebuds I have done a piece of concept influenced by lyrics by Luntara's song, 'A Glorious Beginning'. The green moon is a symbol of the band's arrival, and is quickly becoming a recurring feature in my artwork... The Scarecrow is atop of a cliff with the waves violently smashing against the rocks. The Piece took a couple of days to do. Its my favourite Piece so far, and hopefully I'll get time to do some more!

Zombie Frog

This is my half of an Art trade i did with a uni classmate whom I chat to frequently on Deviantart.

Back in our first year of college, we worked together in a team of 5 on a storyboard project. The story we came up with involved an old house, some lost teenagers and giant zombie frogs. We came up with these ideas way before i had my obsession with Hellboy, so this isn't influenced by the plague of frogs

POD Pirates Update: Harv 3D

This is the Developement of the character 'Harv', who is at this point intended to be used in the pilot show 'Pod 003'.










The above images are 3D models of the Character i made in Maya. The image below is the previously posted concept image of Harv, only with proposed colour. I used Reds and yellows as i felt the Robot had a very Soviet feel to it. This palette isn't final, and his texture may change.

Pod Interface Designs

These are some concept ideas for the computer interface on the escape pod from the pilot show of the same name.


This was the first piece i had done, an overtly complicated design although Punchdrunk did like the large eye in the middle.











This is the only piece i had done with the main character in it. The extendable arm was a piece of development from Desmond Walsh's idea.









This idea was developed through the previous ideas and looking at the space available within the 3D model of the Pod to use. Since the Pod will be fairly small and claustrophobic, the computer needed to be of a certain size.

Robot Space Pirates Phase 2

I'm trying to think why i have no work posted for this past month... and then i remember I've been working quite hard and forgot to post! Its been mostly work for Punchdrunk, including the Music Video SIF and Concept for POD 003. Here are some pencil sketches of Robot Space pirates that i have designed for POD:



The ideas for the characters 'Legs' and 'Clam' were originally green lit, though now sadly they aren't going to be used. 'Harv', Who is going to be used, is the combination of 'Hal' and another Robot Design done by Mr Dave Bates, as requested by Punchdrunk. 'Mart' is going through a design change as well, but his head will remain the same!

I will post final colour versions of the final Robots when they are ready! These images are copyrighted.

-ian-

Robot Space Pirates V1 - 'Bones'

This is one of many Designs of a Robotic Space Pirate for a Pilot show of a black comedy called 'Pod'. I've christened him 'Bones'. I Designed a version without clothes so that i would be able to design clothing on top of the figure.



I liked this one so much i decided to colour it. I'm proud of the Skull and crossbones being used as part of the bodies frame, and the idea of a blown off eye representing an eyepatch.

Whether or not the design will be used remains to be seen.

Luntara Album Covers

This is the second draft of the album cover i designed for the Metal Band Luntara, and their as yet unreleased debut album 'The Arrival'. The Green Spider-Planet represents The Band, and their arrival to Earth signifies their Arrival into the Public Eye.

This was initially intended to be another album cover for Luntara, but it as yet has a use. It may become the back cover. It is slightly influenced by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Both Images are copyrighted to Luntara.

Cyberchicken

The Above image is the Cyberchicken and its prey. This is one of my favourite pictures i have ever done. One day i went a bit nuts and drew nothing but chickens, and then went a bit further and drew this. On the right are sketches of actual chickens ...

Pencil, pen and photoshop.

Set Designs

Both of these pictures are collages of props and sets designed by Louise Duncan. Both are coloured by me using Photoshop. These also acted as colour/mood boards for the scenes, and the palette in the Pirate ship picture was used in the final film.

This is a new addition

Joint Concepts

I pencilled and inked the pilot picture above, which was then coloured by Hazel Smith. The Pilot Idea was never to be used in the Pilot show, as other better themes were favoured.

The picture above is one of my favourites from the 'Ria and Ryan' project. It inocently shows the relationship between the brother sister, while at the same time remain adorable. Hazel Smith has made a colour version.


Hazel Drew the above picture, which i coloured in photoshop. The picture of the cowboy and indian was taken from a google search.

Ryan Dresses Up!

This is one of the first pieces of concept i had done for the Ria and Ryan Pilot Show. It is Ryan as a Pilot, influenced by the term 'Pilot Show'. I designed the costume, influenced by stereotypical Biggles pilots outfits.
In the cartoon, Ryan inadvertently dresses as a damsel in the scene based in medieval times. this is a drawing from a storyboard i drew, only i liked the pose and expression so much i decided to colour it in!

Ryan the Dinosaur!

This is a concept piece of the boy, Ryan, dressing up as dinosaur and pretending to destroy a city, a lá Godzilla! There is a backdrop of a city scape, similar to how the film will look. The coloured version was done entirely in Photoshop, not 3D software as some people have inquired.

Ria and Ryan As Pirates

This is one the first pieces of concept i did for 'The Ria and Ryan Really Big Pilot Show'. It is my personal favourite, drawn in pencil, inked and coloured using photoshop 7.0