Bioshock

Bioshock 

Bioshock is one of my favorite games for Xbox 360. I love the concept art for the game. 

Above there is a few images that are from the newer game Bioshock Infinite, the artists is Ben Lo. 

The art is truly memorizing and the art movement is very fluent which I like in art. 

Ben Lo has also done some fan art, hear is one of his piece which is a character  of ToToro which is a anime film from a company called Studio Ghibli. 

Tribe Nightguard is a character in Ben Lo Tribe World. He explains in his own blog what this characters role is in the game. 

I truly love his style of work and how the concept gets put together. 

He has a wide range of themes and characters he has designed and you can see that he can work in many different ways, I love how his work tells the story with needing words. 

http://benlo0.blogspot.co.uk/

Hear is Ben Lo blog 

This is one of his Fan Art pieces of Breaking Bad the TV series, I personally love this piece.
I love looking at fan art and how they make it more personal to them. 

Nintendo

 Nintendo

The Nintendo industry has been a big part of my life for many years , i have decided to have a research in how it started and who started the gaming industry. 

Through out the years Nintendo has created many games and consoles to entertain the world and they have successfully succeeded but how did they get so big ?.  

The color TV Game series was the first color console that you play at the comfort of your own home. The first game for this console was Light Tennis that has a similar lay out to Pong. This console soon got out faced due to the fact you could not play any other games than just the one.  

The next game that soon met the eye and became very popular world wide was Nintendo entertainment system. This became allot more popular rather than The color TV Game series.

My favorite Nintendo game has to be Zelda.
My favorite game has to be Twilight Princess the art work, and concept art for this game is to amazing for words. When I was looking into the game in more depth I found out that one of the concept artist is Yusuke Nakano.
Unfortunately there is not much about this artist that i could find. But the whole franchise of this game is truly amazing. The concept art is something that i highly admire.













This is one of the books that I have and I highly recommend it . It goes through the history of Zelda and the characters and how they are developed.

This is the kind of art work that highly adore.

As I was researching through the history of the game i found out that allot of inspiration came from mythology.
When you start looking in depth on the story line it can become rather hard to follow, Hyrule was formed many years ago through the works of the three Golden Goddesses: Din the goddess of the power.As you can see from the image shown below.

Peter popken

Peter Popken 

Is a film concept artist, i found him as i was researching film concept artist. I found out that he worked on Thor for marvel and many more films that are very well known. He has also worked for Disney , Paramount and warner Bros  and many more. He has also developed his carer by working for Sony Ps3 as a game concept artists. 

Peter was born in Germany and studied Graphic design. When Peter finished his education  he went in to story boarding in animation. and then moved to all different areas in the entertainment industry.

Peter explains what his role in the concept industry is to draw the story to real life and make it more visual. His focus is on storytelling and he sets the mood for the film and each sequence.

The difference on concept on film and game is film is shorter. Film can take 3 to 6 months and a game can take up to 6 years. He works on many different soft wares that's what brought my eye to his work, as I am trying the software my self. 

This kind of area of Industry is what i am interested in. 

I like concept art and I personally collect the books for film and games.

I like how this peice of work looks like a oil painting, this technique is created on Photoshop.

Karla Ortiz Concept Artists

Karla Ortiz 

Karla has worked in the entertainment industry for about 6 years , she has worked with Paragon Studios/Ncsoft, Ubisoft, Kabam, Industrial Light and magic.

She explains that she likes good music, good stories, good laughs and good food. 

This image was the first I found of her work and I soon fell in love. I love how dark her illustration are and you can see natural talent through out her work. 

 What i love the most about this piece of hers is how dark it is but still a bit of light. The characters and interesting and you instantly get caught up in what happens next or what is this illustration about. 

I found all her work on ...

  http://conceptartworld.com/

William Simpson

William Simpson 

I recently have been to event where I got to meet with William Simpson which was amazing.  

I found that he had allot to say about the industry that I am interested in going in to. 

He started of with drawing story boards then as he grew in the industry William went on to concept art for films and series. 

William started in the industry with the company called British comics which included the comics Warrior and 2000 AD.He has since illustrated comic books for such industry heavyweights as DC comics and marvel comics.

I am very interested in Williams work and found his talk fascinating and educational and feel so lucky that I got to meet him. 

What i like most about his work is that he still uses traditional methods but also modern methods. I really like his line work and you can see that he puts so much in his work which gives you so much inspiration. 

I find his illustrations do the story telling by them selves with out the text which is what i find so professional and amazingly interesting.
William explained that working in the idustry is not always easy and you have to work very hard and end up when starting out using your own pocket but not to be taken as a mug at the same time. 

Here is a Interveiw i found with William Simpson if you would like to read it.

http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/production-diary/2012/9/27/got-storyboard-artist-william-simpson-gives-a-glimpse-at-sea.html

Rob Bliss

Rob Bliss 

These are the films that he has worked in that i found from his site.

I originally found Rob Bliss when I visited the harry potter studios. 

His work stuck out to me because of his art style and the way he draws. 

This is what I am highly interested in doing through out my study life and carer. 

There is not much information about this artist but I have found out what films he has worked on. 

I  am currently working on a few projects of my own using Photoshop , I would like to say that  Rob Bliss is a inspiration to me as his style of work is something that interests me. Every time I see his work I get excited and amazed. 

Thief Of Always (2013) (Concept Artist)

Frankenstein (2013) (Concept Artist)

Dracula Untold (2013) (Concept Artist)

Hercules: The Thracian Wars (2013) (Concept Artist)

Divergent (2012) (Concept Artist)

The Crow (2012) (Concept Artist)

Godzilla (2012) (Concept Artist)

Last Days on Mars (2012) (Concept Artist)

Maleficent (2012) (Concept Artist)

Candy Land (2011) (Concept Artist)

Paradise Lost (2011) (Concept Artist)

Neverland (2010) (Concept Artist)

Jack the Giant Killer (2009-10) (Concept Artist)

The Dark Knight (2008) (Concept Artist)

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2008) (Concept Artist)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) (Concept Artist)

Watchmen (2005) (Dir. Paul Greengrass) (Concept Artist)

Alexander (2004) (Concept Artist)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) (Concept Artist)

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) (Concept Artist)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) (Concept Artist)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) (Concept Artist)

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) (Concept Artist)

This Image Of Dobby is the one of his Illustration i saw in the makers of Harry Potter Studio i was amazed and his piece of art work gave me allot of inspiration. 

These are some of the images i picked up when researching his work. 

Film and Game Zombies

I am looking at a Book called zombies by Russ Thorne. 

Hear is a image of what the book looks like if you are wanting to get it. 

From a young age i have been interested in mythical creatures from good to bad. 

Hear i am looking at Zombies which is a very large part of modern pop culture. 

I want to look at films and gaming in this blog as i have a huge interest in them. 

The walking dead ( very popular at the moment) 

I love the drawing style of the comics and fell i love with the story line. 

Tony Moore is one of the team of artist who illustrate the comics.

http://www.tonymooreillustration.com/covers 

Tony Moore illustrated one of my favorite covers of the comics trad paper backs. I don't now why i love this cover so much it just the cover that stands out to me the most.  

Moore was Born in Kentucky. When at school he became friends with Robert Kirkman, which soon became partners with there comic book illustrations. 

Their first comic book together was battle Pope in 2000. 

In 2003 Kirkman and Moore created Invincible for images new superhero line. The story surrounded the adolescent son of the worlds most powerful superhero, who develops powers and starts his own superhero career. 

But later on Kirkman was not meeting deadlines and was replaced by Ryan Ottley. 

Later on the pair of them went to work on The walking Dead in 2003. 

Kirkman also worked for marvel. 

They both inspired each other through their work.