Cody's Art Blog

2011-12-23T21:41:00.000-08:00

painted my uncle's horse for his Christmas pres. man i need to post/paint more... :/

A few paintings

2010-04-21T07:55:00.001-07:00

2.5 Hour Speedie

The bottom one was a bit longer. more stuff for thesis

ART DUMP

2010-03-28T11:23:00.000-07:00

Warrior Still not done....I'll finish it this summer.

i draw cartoons too :(

Hadn't posted anything in a long time.....More 3d work to come when i feel like making sheets.
Peace out!

update

2009-11-07T21:09:00.000-08:00

warrior update

2009-11-05T09:53:00.000-08:00

WIP, still needs a lot of work. hands, arms, upper body, head.

2009-11-02T12:54:00.000-08:00

2.5 hour speed paint for GameDesign
....and yet again the colors turned really blue in the browser....

Warrior WIP

2009-10-11T20:54:00.001-07:00

Update!

2009-10-05T23:42:00.000-07:00

EPIC Games Update

2009-07-06T17:37:00.000-07:00

Well I some how managed to get the animation Internship at Epic Games. I'm loving it here, the company is great and everyone has been very kind and I'm learning a lot. Alex Whitney has been a great role model, as well as Scott Dossett.

They've got me doing a little of everything right now, just whatever is needed at the time. I've been doing some character animation, Mocap Cleanup, and some rigging. I wish I could post some stuff but I can't....

Whenever, if ever, I am able to show my work, I'll post it :) Peace.

Whale concept art

2009-05-03T21:46:00.001-07:00

Color study

Initial sketch

Arctic Wizard Concept...lol

Another quick painting for the whale

layout sketch

2009-04-05T16:34:00.001-07:00

Quick Color Study

First Perspective sketch without value, saved over my value study
DOH!

Sketch for the Environment project

2009-04-02T23:31:00.001-07:00

Another Leventep Style painting, 3 hours

2009-03-18T17:57:00.000-07:00

ehh, I think it was around 4 or 5 hours...lots of breaks. The raccoon shaman again.

2009-03-01T19:14:00.000-08:00

Another painting for game design. I think it was a total of 4 or 5 hours, gettin faster. This was supposed to be a scene after one of his Raccoon buddies died, not sure if it reads or not.

1 hour sketch. Tried the Leventep style for the first time. Thanks stevie :)

2009-02-22T16:09:00.000-08:00

Another painting for game design, I really enjoyed this one. Its a follow up on the raccoon shaman. Him and his buddies are about to raid the unsuspecting picnickers.

2009-02-15T20:55:00.000-08:00

Boat warehouse concept, not done yet.

Raccoon Shaman

2009-02-12T14:05:00.001-08:00

Here is my hobo raccoon shaman concept for game design. The whole story is that he has made friends with and pretty much lives with this group of raccoons that help him steel food to survive. I'll probably go back and rework him when i get some time. I wanted to deck him out in raccoon furs, chains etc. but he is supposed to be a hobo.....so I don't know.

Ugly Character Turnaround

2009-02-03T20:58:00.000-08:00

Here's my character turnaround for our mudbox modeling assignment. hopefully I can pull it off. its pretty much just a tweaked version of the tough zombie.

Zombies!!

2008-12-05T22:16:00.001-08:00

Here is some of the concept work I did for my Infection mod for the board game Mall of Horror. I'm sick of the stereotypical.....brains.....zombie. So I went with a more mutated version.

This was the Fast zombie concept I did. It was pretty fun painting this one.

Here is the Tough zombie, I wanted him to look nice and beefy.

Now here is the fat nasty poison one. Shes a pretty scary looking old girl, best watch out

Traditional Animation!

2008-11-26T20:14:00.000-08:00

Here is one of my Quad walk cycles from Traditional Animation II

Another Quad Walk Cycle from Traditional Animation II

Here is the walk cycle I did for my "Vin" Character. He's some sort of alien.
Traditional Animation II

Here is my Lip Sync for Traditional Animation II. The dialogue piece is from Chris Farley
in that Saturday Night Live skit "Down by the river."

He moves around a bit to much and its a bit distracting. But it was still a fun exercise!

Environment Design 2

2008-10-29T09:15:00.000-07:00

I'm now realizing that matching up digital paintings colors to other LCD screens is a bitch. They were all painted on the school monitors. The top one looks like the bottom one at the school but the top one on my Mac looks like crap no darks and lights. The fixed one is below.
Final version of the Chateauguay maintenance tunnels. I tried to get a darker feel for this one with brighter colors and more contrast. I'm getting there, But I still need to practice.
Here is the one I chose
Well here is my second group of Environment designs. I watched this video on Feng Zhu the other day that was really inspiring. He is an amazing environment artist. Really helped me out with composition and camera placement.

Environment Design 1

2008-10-29T09:05:00.000-07:00

Fixed color one is above for viewing on mac books - I got to figure something out, anyone got any ideas??
Here is the Final Version of my mall hall ways. Fixed the perspective and what not, and added in some detail here and there. I was pretty happy with this one but its still a bit to blaahhhh. I need to work on lighting more and have a better range of darks and lights. It needs more contrast.

Here is my sketch for my mall hallway concept. I decided to call my version the Chateauguay Mall. Chateauguay is a pretty remote part of my home town in Bridgewater Vermont so I thought this fit it quite nicely. The perspective in the drawing, is a little screwed up, but I worked it out up top. This was for Game design class again, digital.

Psychology

2008-10-29T08:59:00.001-07:00

Here is my psychology drawing. Its digital, 2-3 hours. It was supposed to be what we though mental illness looks like. Was a cool assignment, just wish psychology wasn't a joke and we got to do more things like this

GameMechanics 3

2008-10-29T08:53:00.000-07:00

Here is once again another mechanic drawing. This one was pretty rushed, to much to do. But its the ax mechanic, not really much more to explain.

GameMechanics 2

2008-10-29T08:47:00.000-07:00

Here is my search the truck mechanic. In this assignment we had to take two mechanics, in this situation it was the, search the truck, and the giving of another weapon to a player. These two mechanics had to relate to each other, in that they almost seemed like one mechanic. In my game someone is voted to search the truck for weapons. After they do so, they must then hand one weapon off to any other player.

Still not happy with this one though, needs some fixin. The truck wheels are way to small haha.

GameMechanics 1

2008-10-29T08:09:00.000-07:00

Here is the survival game mechanic from my game from my board game Mall of Horror. Its sort of a zombie survival game. The goal of the game mechanics project was to take a "mechanic" and illustrate. We had to figure out how we would portray it in the games universe. The mechanic I chose to draw out was survival or voting mechanic. When the zombies outside the room are greater than the number of people inside the room, someone is voted to die. When the vote is cast, no one can do anything to help them.