Skull Video Process pt.1 + Dead Cats

Hello! Wanted to share part of my process regarding the Skull and Shark teaser trailer. Check out the trailer here if you haven't seen it!

Basically for most of the video I tried to cut time and get results by using photos. Its pretty much just rotoscope but I'm not that great at it haha. I've got a more complicated video comin up that hopefully will utilize this technique a bit better though. I wanted to post about this because I know in illustration theres a lot of pride around hand drawing everything from nothin. But if the point is to just get across an idea and have a quick way to show what you're thinking I don't think its a problem to rotoscope.

So heres what I did. Basically just took a handful of photos(not the best technique, i do video now). But it worked for what I wanted, just simple movement. This isn't the only place in the video I used photo but I figured I'd post this example.

First I put on a basic example of Skull's jacket and did the head turn I wanted

After this I took a series of photos of the Skull I use for reference

At this point I just combined the frames and replaced my head with the skull. Which led to me doing linework over each frame and painting them.

Simple final animation -

Hope that helps anyone who is thinking of doing something like this! All of the work in the video was done using Photoshop CS6 and the Timeline tool.



And heres the bonus Dead Cats painting -

Some New Art!

Been away workin for awhile! Really making some headway on Skull and Shark, looking forward to showing the final book... But thats not gonna be for a bit sadly :(.

Heres an image I did for Magic the Gathering's upcoming Gatecrash set

Gideon!

Some sketch stuff and a pixel piece I did for Dark Souls

Skull and Shark Teaser Trailer!

Hey everybody! Been workin on this for a bit in my free time.

Teaser for my upcoming comic Skull and Shark!

Had a lot of fun making this, hope you like it!

Cryptids Process

Hello everyone :), just wanted to post up a process image I did for my Legend of the Cryptids work.

Hope it helps!

Also, little skull and shark sketch

(open process in a new tab to see the full image size)

Legend of the Cryptids

Hellooo, nothin Skull and Shark related yet but its moving along really quick. Should be able to tease some stuff from it soon :)!

Got a couple images I did for Legend of the Cryptids! They're really great to work with and I love their approach to the art briefs. Really enjoying it so far and hope to have more work to share soon!

This one was for a creature dude, the giant version being the advanced version. Pretty fun to do.

I'll try and post some process stuff soon for both of em.

Doom Advertisement & Zbrush

Hey everybody!

I haven't posted in awhile, been buried under work! Really excited to eventually show what I've been up to in my client work as well as my Skull and Shark book. I'll try and have something together soon.

In the meantime, heres an advertisement I did for Doom 3's new expansion! As well as my second sculpt in zbrush(trying to learn it so theres all kinds of issues).

Skull and Shark Test Page

Hey everybody! I wanted to update something about my Skull and Shark project without giving anything away. So, here is a test page I did awhile ago to quickly explore the direction I wanted to go with the comic. Been a lot of fun planning everything out since then. Learning a lot! Gonna try not to get ocd on it though, hopefully finish some issues quickly :).


Skull and Shark Test Page! The writing is just a placeholder of course lol