Creature, Character Design & Illustration
The Scarr’d One
Introducing the Scarr’d One, a battle hardend Torvosaurus. Originally for a Jurassic Park design contest to create a dinosaur that hasn’t been seen in the franchise. I wanted to give my creation a bit more character, so I gave it a blind eye, face scars and several claw marks down it’s body. It's survived many battles and is currently out prowling the forests.
Torvosaurus was a frightening animal. It was one of the largest Jurassic predators, with very long teeth and huge powerful claws. With the help of some really great skeleton references, I was able to build this creature from the ground up. Sculpting the intricate scales and using Asian Water Dragons as a reference for the skin pattern.
Created using Zbrush, Blender, Substance Painter, and rendered in Cycles.
Character & Creature Design
Illustrations & Concept Art
Illustration Highlights & Creative Process
Egg Thieves was a personal project and exercise in painting at a larger scale. The final painting is roughly 2’x3’ and applied to masonite board. I’ve always loved D&D and Tolkien, and I developed this illustration. I wanted to depict a group of dwarves who ransacked a dragon’s nest, realizing that they sleeping dragon had woken up, and wasn’t too happy. I wanted to use warm and cool light to help guide the viewer through the scene. In hindsight I would make some changes to the composition, but I’m still pretty happy with the painting overall after getting over the love it/hate it faze.
Egg Thieves
Robot Love
I was brought in a few years ago to help conceptualize a short film that was initially going to be filmed using stop-motion. I created character concepts and illustrations. Model reference images for the puppets, and storyboards to help guild the movie. The film is still in production, but it gave me a great opportunity to learn about film production, conceptual design, and production design.
King of the Monsters
I’ve always been a big fan of giant monsters, there’s something that’s really fascinating about creatures the size of skyscrapers wondering around. In 2014 a new Godzilla movie was released, and after seeing the film I was really inspired to create this piece. I loved how they went about making Godzilla feel like a living creature and blended a lot of the traditional elements and incorporated a lot of really interesting details. I wanted to capture the scale of the monsters in the film and illustrated things from a low vantage point, this helped draw your attention to the King of the Monsters roaring in victory.
