Bryan J. Concept Art

New personal work

2011-12-07T02:36:00.000-08:00

New personal work

2011-08-02T18:28:00.000-07:00

I was inspired for this while playing on a Minecraft server. My friend built a castle in a forest near my place. I was was walking there one morning and decided to paint what it would look like in high resolution.

Portraits

2011-03-09T18:39:00.000-08:00

Mini-Dump

2010-11-22T15:42:00.000-08:00

Its been too long since I posted anything new.

I designed an environment and then built it using Source SDK to see how it would look in the game.


Looter character design for Ivan's Secrets

Risk Letter EP Album Art!

2010-06-11T16:30:00.000-07:00

Here it is finally! Awhile back I made friends with Kelsey Snider, she is a fledgling musician and singer. She asked me to do the artwork for her album and after release delays I can finally show off the finished product:

I take no credit in the logo, she created it herself.

The album will be out soon!
website: http://www.myspace.com/riskletter

Spider Concept!!

2010-05-31T01:12:00.000-07:00

I was given the task of creating a spider that would "make the viewer's spine tingle" for the mod Ivan's Secrets http://ivans-secrets.com/ and this is what came out of it:

this was seriously too much fun to create. I put on some nasty sounding music, gathered up some heinous looking spider images and went to town. When this creature is rendered in the game I am told its going to be about 2 feet big and shriek like nothing you've ever heard before. I can't wait to shoot hordes of these guys with a shotgun!

Updates

2010-04-22T21:12:00.000-07:00

This is the first environment concept for Ryan Sanderson's Unreal UDK project.( http://www.3dryan.blogspot.com/ ).

This is the last in my nature themed work for a long while. I started out doing this theme because I didn't want to just do the more typical big hulking men in huge suits of armor with super slick machine guns or those tired modern style soldiers with Kevlar helmets and specialized M-4 assault rifles with various attachments. But in other news: my game of the year pick is Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

New style/technique

2010-04-15T22:49:00.000-07:00

I decided to try rendering in gray scale in photoshop then adding color layers via setting the layer properties to overlay or color, Then doing any final details in full color.

The skull chant

The blood vortex

Priestess of the Soul

2010-03-29T20:15:00.000-07:00

Cold Path

2010-03-29T16:55:00.000-07:00

I wanted to do a quick environment study that has absolutely nothing to do with nature and trees.

Vile Lands/Half life 2 mapping update

2010-03-28T00:24:00.000-07:00

This is the environment for the 'evil' looking characters for this nature themed universe. I sketched out a color rough that depicted a barren wasteland that looked too much like a desert and not the type of place that these creatures would dwell. I went here with more of a forest that is not fully green and living but more to the realm where the forest is so old its on it's death bed.

Half Life 2 mapping:
I have been contracted to work on a map for a new zombie survival game that is using the source engine, but most importantly its using predominantly Half Life 2: Episode 2 models, materials, and particles. The mod itself is a survival. You and your friends are held up in this mansion way out in the woods where you fight off hordes of attacking undead. How long will the ammo hold out?

Homestead

2010-02-13T20:09:00.000-08:00

This is a snapshot of where the forest characters live. I have created all the characters and it was nessicary to illustrate where they live. Very soon the series will be complete and with be released in a full universe concept series.

Territory markers

2009-12-02T16:02:00.000-08:00

Instead of running with four separate environment ideas all the way to their conclusion without a clear picture of what I was creating I decided to instead create these territory markers that describe the essence of each area. My plan now is to begin taking these small descriptors and elaborating on each of them.

Squibbie

2009-11-12T18:43:00.000-08:00

Here is a Concept for a humanoid type alien species that shares basic human traits (eyes, ears, arms, legs, etc) but the break from that form is with the elongation of the head, the skin texture as well as the hardened carapace that is used for armor.

Earth Rott

2009-10-15T00:03:00.000-07:00

Most Recent

2009-09-14T12:11:00.000-07:00

This is one of the Mothers Of Nature.

They are humans who entered the wilderness in search of the wisp nectar intending not to use it for weapons or power, but to better themselves and reconnect the human race to nature. They seek to combine their bodies with plant life by using the nectar to modify their genetic code.

This is the redesign of the character type called: "elders"

These personified plant life guard the forests and swamps where the glow wisps produce the nectar they feed off of. Anyone who ventures into the woods claims to hear tremendous groans in the distance from them as they awaken to either repel any intruders or to feast on the wisp nectar.

Here is one of the locations wisps congregate.

They form a luminescent substance through digestion and use it to create nests for their young. Travelers to places where they gather say that under the forest canopy during the day it seems as if the stars are still out in the sky.

Recent

2009-09-14T12:00:00.000-07:00

Silent Forest

Shadow Swamp

Holy City

The Chancellor

The Elders

Gm_MineField

2009-09-14T11:53:00.000-07:00

I recently taught myself how to use the Source Engine SDK Hammer program. I created and released a multiplayer map for Garr'ys Mod for open download and use amongst the community.

Gm_Mine Field is a soccer stadium with a twist: it is set after the fall of the combine. This industrial area was colonized by the rebels and is now used for a soccer arena. It has been 18 years since they have been able to play and nows the time!

Screenshots:

Youtube preview video:

Download Link:

Withered Imperium

2009-09-14T11:08:00.000-07:00

Style Exploration: Graphic texturization

2009-06-16T15:17:00.000-07:00

The objective of this work in progress is my attempt to combine more traditional photo stylized with graphical shapes that are used in place of brush strokes.

Frankie the Monster

2009-06-07T15:55:00.000-07:00

This is Frankie the Monster. He is made of foam and laytex with plastic resin for the horns and teeth. This was my in class project for 3d illustration Spring 2009.