Floodliners - Wreckage

Hi guys,
Things have been quite busy for me lately, as I've ventured into the wonderful world of themepark design! I'm currently working on designs for Adventure World Warsaw, a polish themepark we're currently designing from scratch. Lot's of fun, be sure to check the link above! :)

Meanwhile, I've picked up my floodliners project again, above another visual I did in Photoshop. Trying to find out how much of The Flooded World is actually left intact, I have some more visuals I hope to be able to share with you soon.

Back to work,
-Edwin

Island Thumbnails

Here's a quick update with a new technique I've been developing for thumbnailing environments By only using hard blacks and whites it's a perfect way for quick shape exploration. Let me know what you think!

I'm also still working on my topsecret personal project; I'm currently wrapping up 5 to 6 environment paintings which I plan to post all at once, hopefully before the end of the year :D

Oh, and enjoy one of my first efforts in animation; have a very merry christmas and a happy new year! :D

-Edwin

Speedpainting - Part 1

Although still busy drawing my sketchcards in ink, I felt like doing some speedpainting today, above the result. Done in Photoshop and my cintiq, aprox 2 hours each.

Regards,
-Edwin

Moving Home Card

Me and my girlfriend (and our cats) recently moved in together, this is the card I created to sent out to all our friends and family. I only drew it, my girlfriend came up with the house-being-a-movingbox idea :)

-Edwin

Creature 17

Here's a colored version of one of the creature-thumbnails, done with my cintiq in Photoshop,in aprox. 3 hours. Next FuturePoly class will be focussed around buildings & vehicles, should be fun! :) -Edwin

Floodliners - Environments

Here are 3 more images I did for my Floodliners project. It's alot of fun trying to come up with locations for a world that is mostly flooded :)

- First image is a visualisation of a trading post, where big shipwrecks have gotten new meaning. Goods being traded mostly consist of drinkingwater, food and gasoline/oil.
- Second image shows a foodcargo being unloaded, heavily guarded as fresh food has become highly valuable, and mostly reserved for local crimebosses.
- Third image shows a floating market, with 2 huge ships in the background that act as its landmark (=making floating city visible from afar, as seen in the 1st image) Oh, and the girl in the foreground is a hint at how the player characters may look, I hope to explore the style of the characters some more real soon.

All images were drawn directly in photoshop.

More stuff on the way, feedback welcome! :)

-Edwin

New Art!

Hey everyone! Here's my first artistic endeavour of the year, but before I elaborate on it, some other stuff:

1. A big THANK YOU! goes out to Blogs of Note for putting my humble blog on their list, and by doing so directing a rediculous amount of people here!:S It's defenitely very motivating to read all your comments, forgive me for not having responded to all messages and questions yet, I'm still getting to them as things have been quite busy for me lately.
2. I finally updated my Cartoon Blog aswell, I did 7 new pendrawings during my christmas break, take a look at http://pensketches.blogspot.com/
3. Also, make sure you visit the blog of good friend and collegue Daniel Ernst at http://itcamefrombeyond.blogspot.com/, if you like my stuff, well, you'll love his! :)

About the painting:
It's a miracle I managed to finish it, as this image has been on my harddrive for months. I hardly go back to images I've lost interest in, but I opened up this one during my christmas holidays, and decided to make one last effort. The image is a result of me playing too many games like TombRaider and Uncharted, which inspired me to come up with this image. My goal was to create an image that would introduce my own temple looting character, and also show a glympse of possible gameplay. I struggled most with the background and how to get the perspective right, it wasn't untill I tilted the horizon that things started to look like something :)
I'm also still looking for a cool name for this character, so if you have a suggestion, let me know! :D

-Edwin

EDIT 09-02-2011: An AWESOME 5 page comic story was written around this character by Shaun at penciljack.com! Check it out here !

Pirate Sunset

Here's another image I did, which is actually the last shot of a small storyboard sequence I'm working on. I hope to be able to work on it some more this week, so stay tuned :)

-Edwin