Project Meatmonkey

Dreadnaught - Crash Site

2011-12-05T13:33:00.000-08:00

I found this old concept digital speed painting I did for a possible level for the Dreadnaught project. Though the project is dead I did like the painting especially given the fact it was only a couple hours of work. I miss painting, need to do more painting..... (sigh).

-Meatmonkey

Dreadnaught - Hunter

2011-10-27T00:24:00.000-07:00

This one is technically not complete but will get to it eventually. Either when the project begins to move forward or when my little personal time permits. This guy is suppose to be a long range fighter using advanced optics and a powerful railgun to make others lives miserable.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Boss C

2011-10-26T15:11:00.001-07:00

Another low poly boss model for the Guardian Earth Project. They are starting to get easier to make since I can rework parts of previous textures into the newer ones since they share common schemes. I actually like this one a bit... have a few ideas on gameplay for it too.

-Meatmonkey

Chicago Racer

2011-10-25T14:06:00.000-07:00

I was brought in on a car simulator project to do optimization on existing assets. I did not create these buildings but had to make them more efficient for the game engine. For those who know tech stuff, the game was not running so well at 14k draw calls in unity. After I was done it with the art assets I got the draw calls down to 1200. I think I could of gotten them lower with more time, but there was a steep turn around. So the time to investment ratio was no longer worth the clients wait.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Boss B

2011-10-24T16:33:00.000-07:00

Work in progress of another very low poly model enemy for the Guardian Earth project. Trying to wrap up the project so doing some simple designed bosses for some of them but keep them interesting. This one is suppose to be some sort of mini reactor ship that drags the power of a small star within it.

-Meatmonkey

Dreadnaught - Hangar

2011-10-20T22:26:00.000-07:00

The Dreadnaught projects hangar bay were players would customize their mech skins and equip them with any weapons they may have acquired. This is animated, but it was not completed yet with the gui interface and everything.

-Meatmonkey

Dreadnaught - Basic

2011-10-19T00:02:00.001-07:00

The starting mech for the Dreadnaught game with a the design coming from a multi purpose construction model. The mech would be pretty much your standard across the board stats mech with nothing special about it. But there is nothing ordinary about mech combat!

-Meatmonkey

Dreadnaught - Ivan

2011-10-18T22:24:00.001-07:00

A low polygon mech for a game that is in the works. Hopefully it will be done soon, but there is no realease date planned at the moment for it. This one is a heavy mech with apparent Russian origins.

-Meatmonkey

Dreadnaught - Tempest

2011-10-16T21:48:00.000-07:00

A low polygon mech model for a game in the works. This one has been dubbed the tempest and is the king of the skies. Though none of the mechs are planned to be true flyers, this one can stay airborne the longest due to its lightweight, advanced thrusters and high powered hover fan.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Cruiser A

2011-10-12T00:10:00.001-07:00

More Guardian Earth art assets with this one being an enemy cruiser ship. Hopefully the game comes out good.

-Meatmonkey

The Vault

2011-09-28T10:58:00.001-07:00

There is more I wanted to do but I am at the point where I am getting too much diminishing return on my time for improvement. I am going to go ahead and call it done and move on to other projects which need more attention. Hopefully it is respectable enough to compete with the other entries.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Cruiser B

2011-09-23T12:36:00.001-07:00

A smaller cruiser for the Guardian Earth Project. I picture this one flying near enemy ships ripping apart the hulls with the winged energy tips on the side. I doubt it will be programmed to do that in game though.

-Meatmonkey

The Vault (WIP) 03

2011-09-22T00:01:00.001-07:00

More progress on the vault piece. Starting to explore some of the basic rendering and getting ready to flesh out more of the textures. I doubt I will have the time to get the astronauts in before the deadline since I want to get the rendering down first and I suck at it.

-Meatmonkey

The Vault (WIP) 02

2011-09-21T11:17:00.001-07:00

The Vault piece for the monthly Gnomon contest further along now. I am getting to the point where I am touching on texturing and deciding on how to tackle the rendering. I am not a strong technical render and really wish I had Vray to render this. Hopefully it wont be to much trouble since I would like to add some other things instead of wasting all my time figuring out rendering.

-Meatmonkey

The Vault (WIP) 01

2011-09-17T14:51:00.000-07:00

Gnomon contest this month is "The Vault", so I am working on an entry despite having little free time. I have always wanted to enter and decided to stop making excuses! Here is my work in progress of my piece and am going Sci fi with the vault being a giant metal globe in space.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Boss A

2011-09-17T00:30:00.001-07:00

A boss for the Guardian Earth project, an asteroid station with lots of fire power. After a lot of work it is finally respectable. Hopefully the project does not stall out like so many others I have been on.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Player Ship E

2011-09-09T00:10:00.000-07:00

Last player ship for the game (at least at this time), now work on other assets for the project. This one is more of a bomber ship, but we will see. Overall the poly count is really really low, but maybe we can go increase it after we see how things run the way they are.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Player Ship D

2011-09-08T23:33:00.000-07:00

Another low polygon resolution model for a mobile application game. So much work to do even when they are low resolution like this. Hopefully I get more time in the near future to kick this into higher gear.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Player Ship C

2011-09-02T11:50:00.001-07:00

Another very low poly ship for an curtain shooter ipad /iphone app.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Player Ship B

2011-09-01T00:27:00.000-07:00

Starting to go through and take more screen shots of the Guardian Earth assets. Weeeee!

- Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Title Screen

2011-08-24T13:18:00.000-07:00

Guardian Earth Title screen without the buttons. Hand painted the background and made everything in Photoshop. Not quite done yet and how far it goes will depend on time constraints. Hopefully it will look nice after it is all said and done.

-Meatmonkey

Guardian Earth - Player Ship A.

2011-08-23T23:50:00.001-07:00

One of the player ships I did for a Ipad based mobile app game. Extremely low rez as all the assets for the game are, but they are tiny on screen anyways. The name has been changed since it was completed, so disregard that.

-Meatmonkey.

Guardian Earth - Bats

2011-08-22T13:01:00.001-07:00

A pair of ships for a side project I am working on. Probably will be making technical edits later on and want to primarily get it working well for mobile development.

-Meatmonkey

Space Ship Silhouette 01

2011-08-19T13:22:00.000-07:00

Been quiet lately... but really busy. Concept sketches for some space ships and some them will be turned into really low ploy models. Will try to start posting more regularly again now that things are starting to form into more of a routine.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Egyptian Portrait

2011-05-04T16:36:00.001-07:00

My concept done for a monthly concept group. I was originally planning on duplicating the grayscale bust of this and doing multiple costume designs. But ended up just practicing color painting on it. It is far from good since I drifted from my original plan the painting came out pretty stiff, but I was happy with the lessons I learned from painting it.

-Meatmonkey

Raven Skull WIP4

2011-04-14T16:34:00.001-07:00

I have learned the value in not caring. I figure whats the worse that can happen... another failed piece of art. So I have begun blocking in the background more and played more with some experiments. Overall I am not sure if I care for the direction it is going, but heh.... thats the beauty of not caring. Lets see what happens.

-Meatmonkey

Raven Skull WIP3

2011-04-13T12:21:00.000-07:00

Did not have much time to work on the piece in my last session, but wanted to knock in some of the background. I am keeping it light, since I am not sure what I am doing there yet. I want to start adding a bunch more vegetation throughout it and lock down the placement of things before I get too opaque.

-Meatmonkey

Raven Skull WIP2

2011-04-12T14:33:00.000-07:00

So I have decided to go with a dirty watercolor style. Thats what I dubbed my watercolor style sense I make no efforts to preserve the whites. I usually am much more opaque in my watercolor then come back in with another paint like acrylic later to paint the highlights.

-Meatmonkey

Raven Skull WIP1

2011-04-11T21:07:00.001-07:00

This started out an attempt to add a value rendering to my portfolio and utterly failed. So I was in the process of destroying it by erasing all the rendering but liked the line work of the skull. So I decided to start experimenting and redrew the raven back in. Lets see where this goes.

-Meatmonkey

Dreadnaught Ruler

2011-03-27T23:01:00.001-07:00

A height comparison chart for a mech game I hope to get done sooner or later. Thankfully making them more realistically smaller will allow for greater design options and more playability as a FPS style game. I hope to eventually do a full comparison chart with all the mechs together when it is possible.

-Meatmonkey

Thumbs...hands.

2011-03-26T04:56:00.000-07:00

Thumbnails of hands... with thumbs! These are really old actually, I recently finished a sketch book that took way way too long to get through. But anytime that happens it is something worth celebrating for me. Took some pictures of the bearable stuff and put this up here to share.

-Meatmonkey.

UCR Poster

2011-03-23T15:40:00.000-07:00

I know it has been a long while. Have been sucked into many education and game related 3d oriented tasks. We hit an unfortunate snag on the project and we are assessing what needs to be done. This actually was done for an educational posted using assets from the project. So since its for public advertisement I threwh up here as well.

Shawn's Tattoo

2011-03-18T21:19:00.001-07:00

A marine friend asked for me to do a design for a tattoo for him before he is deployed. He wanted the tribal flame thing going on with the USMC letters in the middle of it. I supplied the first draft of what he was requesting. It is heavily lifted from a design he showed me off a beer can.... haha, marines.

-Meatmonkey

Gun Composites

2010-06-04T23:39:00.001-07:00

A work in progress of the Gun composites based from the silhouette that I did earlier. They are no where near complete, but they should not take too long to do and I will just update it then. After this I will probably will choose one or two of the guns and do a final schematic drawing.

-Meatmonkey

Papa Monk

2010-06-03T04:19:00.000-07:00

Started out decent, went really bad, then salvaged in below decent piece. I need to do more studies, but I would feel weird posting a bunch of studies here and I do not want to ignore all of you. Must keep pressing forward.

-Meatmonkey

Rufus

2010-06-02T22:25:00.000-07:00

A hobo brawler or a pirate? Who knows, but it reminded me a bit of a younger version of Uncle Rufus from Boondocks and thus named him so. Just a sketch in hopes to get better at many things I need help in.

-Meatmonkey

Bonk Color Comps

2010-06-01T00:03:00.001-07:00

Rough Bonk color composites done in Photoshop which I am leaning towards the bottom middle one. I will be doing some more detailed color character paintings here soon, but want to do her armadillo pet design first.

-Meatmonkey

Bonk

2010-05-31T00:29:00.000-07:00

Wanted to diversify a little bit and get a cartoon like character in progress. This is Bonk, a little prehistoric heroine that is a rather strong tomboy. She runs around with her dinosaur bone club and her pet armadillo that she knocks into things.

-Meatmonkey

Axion

2010-05-30T00:54:00.001-07:00

This was an introduction animation I did for a class project not too long ago, it can be played on a loop. I did everything within the video except design the logo. A bit too much glow for my tastes along with other things, but was on a timetable and had to go with it. I also updated the pod model images in an earlier post for those who follow along.

-Meatmonkey

Fey Magic

2010-05-29T23:49:00.001-07:00

Crap. But at least I am back on the horse and drawing again. Nothing much to talk about here, just another drawing on vellum. I might take it and paint it digitally and see if I can make it more respectable, but I have not decided yet.

-Meatmonkey

Digital Portrait 002

2010-05-02T22:42:00.001-07:00

More practice from reference, this one is a black and white painting of a young man. I am strongly considering of trying to do at least a painting a week of a character in a movie released that week. Right now though I am just going to paint as much as I can and see where it takes me.

-Meatmonkey

Digital Portrait 001

2010-05-01T22:24:00.001-07:00

I have been doing too much 3d stuff lately (or nothing) and need to get back to sketching and painting. I need a LOT more digital painting practice and really need to make more effort to get more of these digital paintings done, actually more than that I need to make it routine.

-Meatmonkey

Pod Model

2010-04-18T02:35:00.000-07:00

Have not really decided how far I want to take this model, figuring it out as I go at this time. I am working on the texture some, but will probably build up the model some more for the normal map. It has been frustrating thus far, but we will see how far I can take it.

-Meatmonkey

Pod Concepts

2010-04-11T23:41:00.000-07:00

Have to do some pod designs which is like a futuristic cockpit of some strange device. Working on blocking it within maya but figured I should show where I came from to show the progress of the pod device.

-Meatmonkey

Gun Silhouette 004

2010-04-06T11:09:00.001-07:00

It seems the guns are getting bigger and bigger which is fine. I do plan on the final product being an unrealistic large gun. But only plan on doing one more page and taking it on the next step,but I have so many guns to work from.
-Meatmonkey

Gun Silhouette 003

2010-04-03T22:22:00.001-07:00

Rolling right along. I was unhappy with some of these as a whole, but they had interesting parts that I will continue to carry on into the next batch. Thats kinda of the idea of this method, rapidly produce a bunch and begin taking pieces from some of them and recombine them into something better.

-Meatmonkey

Gun Silhouette 002

2010-04-02T15:23:00.000-07:00

Here are some more gun silhouette's and I have no intention of stopping here. I am not 100% sure how many I am going to do. But it will probably be many before I end up choosing some and taking them to a more detailed stage.
-Meatmonkey

Gun Silhouette 001

2010-04-01T20:27:00.001-07:00

The first of many weapon silhouette's I will be doing. It is my hope to improve on weapon design, and eventually add some nice 3d objects to my portfolio. Cool characters need cool guns to blow things away, anything else would just not do.

-Meatmonkey

Nicholas

2010-03-22T17:56:00.001-07:00

First day of spring break and wanted to be sure I do not spend it on the couch. Did a few sketches as well of this one of a combat monk. Its got some issues, but their are many things I want to get done this break so I cannot spend all my time noodling problems.

-Meatmonkey

Base Head: Jurgen

2010-03-21T20:59:00.000-07:00

A base head that I plan on using for an expression study within Zbrush. I wanted to do someone with a lot of wrinkles which I think would help enhance the expressions and make the overall piece more interesting. I may also texture and model out a body for the character to get the most mileage from the piece.

-Meatmonkey

Skeletor

2010-03-20T18:13:00.000-07:00

Skeletor is done, though done is a relative term when it comes to digital medium. I may play a little more with the values and add some sort of green flame within his hand, but I am considering this one done... finally. Hope you all like and hope it was interesting watching it progress for those few who pay attention to the blog.

-Meatmonkey

Poison Mistress

2010-03-15T01:52:00.000-07:00

Been a while, and a lot to still do... Color pencil on marker paper. A stealthy woman with bad intentions, perhaps an assassin with the power to coat her sword with poison after she has passed all the check points in a city. Well she got the sword in, so I guess the guards are not doing their job.

-Meatmonkey

VG Sketchbook 03

2010-03-08T22:31:00.000-08:00

Its been a while. Been working on a traditional painting lately and it is has not been going so well. Mistakes when it comes to such things cost more time and can make one frustrated in general with the art world. I shall work through it hopefully and come out with a great painting.

-Meatmonkey

Skeletor Turntable

2010-02-25T10:27:00.000-08:00

Barring any minor changes the modeling portion of Skeletor is complete. I plan to do a full rendered out illustration style scene through maya but wanted to include a turn table animation with no texture to show the model, kind of like a pewter figurine.
-Meatmonkey

Katana Girl

2010-02-04T13:50:00.000-08:00

An old drawing I pulled out and am starting to digitally paint. So I will put up the sketch for now and post the painting once it is complete. Do not expect it soon however, there is much more important work that needs to be done first!

-Meatmonkey

VG Sketchbook 02

2010-01-26T00:13:00.000-08:00

Some face make up designs with weird helm accessories and some sort of masked tiki jungle woman. I did not really have a plan I just kind sketched to see what would happen. Im just happy to have the time to sketch two days in a row. Tomorrow though will be a Zbrush day most likely, so unlikely I will have anytime to do anything within my sketchbook.

-Meatmonkey

VG Sketchbook 01

2010-01-25T14:06:00.000-08:00

Got a new sketch book the other day, it is much more ornate than my usual sketch books. It is field book (smaller) and has Van Gogh motifs on the outside of it, thus Im calling it the VG sketchbook. It was my intention to use this blog as a running sketch book, so here you go. The first page(s) of the sketchbook.

-Meatmonkey

Nun

2010-01-24T22:55:00.000-08:00

A sketch that I planned to paint, but never got around to. I find myself with less and less time to do traditional painting anymore. Perhaps I should digitally paint this one instead, but I guess time will tell what becomes of this sketch - if anything does.

-Meatmonkey

Student Base Head

2010-01-23T13:32:00.001-08:00

Here is a head I created in Maya for beginning students to use within Zbrush on the first day of class. It was given to them in case they have never had any 3d experience and could take the base head divide it to make head sculptures of their own. I too plan on creating some quick 3d sculptures from this head, so here is before then.

-Meatmonkey

Skeletor Color

2010-01-13T19:41:00.001-08:00

Been working on my Skeletor sculpture lately in Zbrush. I finally figured out how to correct the Uv's after going to Zrush! This will hopefully be the last work in progress of this particular piece. Still have quite a few items to sculpt and texture, but here you go. Hopefully the next post on this guy will be the final.
-Meatmonkey

HTH

2010-01-12T23:48:00.001-08:00

Some practice on hand to hand weapons. Need to start working on more variety of objects and things other than just figures. I still need to work on figures, but cannot ignore all the other goodies.

-Meatmonkey

Hel

2010-01-11T00:46:00.000-08:00

Another sketch done for the Norse mythos characters. I spent some more time on the shading on this one as I tend to get carried away at times. It looks good so far, I like the design and cannot see changing it much other than costume redesigns.

-Meatmonkey

Hrodr

2010-01-10T17:30:00.001-08:00

Another first attempt at another norse god. This one is of Hrodr, the blind god who killed his brother Baldur and began Ragnarok. Most of these designs I think I will will be doing multiple times to hopefully achieve better results.

-Meatmonkey

Sindri

2010-01-09T04:27:00.001-08:00

Working on some norse mythos concepts. This one is the first attempt at the dwarven smith, Sindri. I have decided to move away from the generic fantasy dwarf and make them creatures of stone and fire, something that crawled forth from the forge themselves. In time I plan on doing more fleshed out concept attempts of this guy.

-Meatmonkey

Run

2010-01-08T02:37:00.001-08:00

Running to something or away from something. Either way, he is running with purpose! Might paint this digitally and see were it takes me. For now, we will just say he is running to catch the bus.

-Meatmonkey

Glass: Prayer

2010-01-07T14:13:00.001-08:00

The last of the glass Christmas special posts. I did a few more including a snowflake for a xmas tree ornament, but I do not want to fill the blog with "What I gave for xmas" posts. The crafting season is over, back to drawing!

-Meatmonkey

Glass: Celebration

2010-01-06T02:20:00.001-08:00

Another Christmas gift piece in sandblasted glass. Everything in these glass pieces is custom made, with the glass inserted into a wood frame with a wood backing. Personal made things always make nice gifts, and the recipients were all happy with their glass stuff. Nothing been broken yet.

-Meatmonkey

Glass: Flower Girl

2010-01-05T23:58:00.001-08:00

I know its been a while. The holidays made me lazy, but now I must get back to work! Here is something I did in glass with sandblasting for a Christmas gift. The glass stuff does not photograph very well, but it came out very nice.

-Meatmonkey

Flea Acolytes

2009-11-26T10:43:00.000-08:00

There is something about a pious bug that makes me smile. A quick sketch done with color pencil on vellum marker paper. Enjoy Turkey day all and I hope you do not find any fleas among your guests. Happy Thanksgiving!

-Meatmonkey

Sundancer

2009-11-25T20:24:00.000-08:00

Perty stuff...Yeah!!! Playing with the figure some, stretching and distorting it some trying to find something that is lost in most of my work. I ran out of room on the paper so she lost her feet in my search to find something. I do like the outcome and may consider a traditional painting from it, but we will see.

-Meatmonkey

Dr. Fly

2009-11-24T00:38:00.001-08:00

Expected a smooth talking sexy doctor? Im sure you all know me better than that, this is more of a scientist fly than a doctor but thats minor details. Either way I sketched it trying to pull myself out of the loss file fiasco funk. It came out okay, but I still have to find more time to make more sketches if I want to get better.

-Meatmonkey

Keeper

2009-11-23T17:22:00.000-08:00

Frustration fills me at the moment since it looks like I lost a couple days work on Skeletor. It is disheartening to lose the work, so I have not really worked on much of anything new today. This is an old drawing that decided to throw up along with my anger. Out with the bad air, in with the good...

-Meatmonkey

Tank

2009-11-22T01:10:00.001-08:00

Yeah, I got sidetracked again and now I have another project on the list. Originally it was suppose to be just a perspective study for me to draw some tanks with, but the block shapes quickly started becoming detailed. Its far from done, but thats what I worked on today, and will probably come back to it after Skeletor.

-Meatmonkey

Block: Hexed

2009-11-21T01:17:00.000-08:00

Old acrylic painting on a block of wood which was done rather quickly if I remember. Hopefully some day I will have more time to do more acrylic painting. But for now its sketching and portfolio related work.

-Meatmonkey

Costume Stance 2

2009-11-20T15:01:00.000-08:00

Still primarily working on Skeletor, but I don't want to post a bunch of sequential work in progress pictures of it without mixing some other stuff in between them. So here is another costume stance image which I plan of working on. I might do one more female stance picture to have a slight variety between the poses. Probably should paint them before I worry about that though.
-Meatmonkey

Scan: Funboy

2009-11-19T08:41:00.000-08:00

A maniac with a joy for body augmentation and a taste for danger. Despite all his flaws he knows how to have a good time. I am considering doing more punk like concepts which I might eventually model out. I think I just want to do a character all inked up with a lot of accessories.
-Meatmonkey

Skeletor: WIP 1

2009-11-18T11:36:00.001-08:00

A work in progress of the Skeletor model I am doing and hoping to get the modeling portion done by early next week. At this stage I have done the some of the basic figure sculpting and blocked in very simple shapes for the lower parts of his armor. I still need to model the upper armor pieces and work on the entire thing.
-Meatmonkey

Garden Witch

2009-11-16T18:59:00.001-08:00

For the most part I am going to call this one done. It did not come out as well as I liked, but they never do. I might come back later and work on it some, but for now here it is and I am off to the next project on the list.
-Meatmonkey

Bone

2009-11-10T09:52:00.000-08:00

Old piece I did for a digital draw off for a forums contest a while back. We were lumped in groups and given topics week to week. This one was Jeff Smiths, "Bone" which I never read before the contest but found it to be a quite humorous children's book series. I did not even make it past the first round despite most of the others in my round really sucked.

-Meatmonkey

Costume Stance

2009-11-08T21:37:00.000-08:00

This is a sketch done with the intent to paint over it and eventually do a bunch of costume designs on top of that. I am seriously lacking in many things in drawing and one of them is costume design. Lets hope for the best.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Garden Witch

2009-11-07T23:03:00.001-08:00

Here is a piece in the very early stages of work. Right now its nothing more than a quick pencil sketch scanned in and it needs some fixing in some parts. I try not to worry about it so much and fix things as I go on pieces I plan of digitally painting. This one I have a great vision in my mind for, but lets see if it comes out anything like that.

-Meatmonkey

Lion

2009-11-04T21:34:00.000-08:00

Another short painting study of a lion, this one taking about 3 hours. I have found lions to be difficult to paint, and will need to do many more studies before I feel I will get them right. I feel these painting studies are the best thing right now for me, so I will keep working on them.

-Meatmonkey

Monkey One

2009-11-03T17:18:00.001-08:00

More digital painting practice, a short study that was about 2 hours of painting in total. I may work on this some more but I am trying to get out of the habit of rendering so much. I want to move towards a more expressive look, with maybe some area's tightened up.
-Meatmonkey

Beach Girl

2009-10-28T12:45:00.001-07:00

This piece was done to further practice digital painting, a random photo of a girl on the beach. Its decent practice and I did not want to spend too much time on it so I stopped around the 8 hour mark. Trying to increase both my speed and better my technique so expect to see more of these.
-Meatmonkey

Bust: David

2009-10-27T09:09:00.000-07:00

A charcoal drawing from from life of a bust that I think was David but not really sure. I do want to do some more drawings like this since its such great practice but spare time will determine whether or not that happens. Be nice to do something like this with a sketch group, since I do have a cheap bust of Julius Caesar.
-Meatmonkey

Glass Mask: Part I

2009-10-26T00:27:00.000-07:00

This is the first stage of a piece currently in works. The mask is sand blasted glass and will be placed over an acrylic rendering of a women's face on wood. It does not photograph well, but here you go. The painting portion of this piece I really want to get done, but is very low priority at this time. So look back in the future for the exciting conclusion of the Glass Mask.

-Meatmonkey

Evil Children

2009-10-25T02:45:00.000-07:00

When I paint from imagination I usually fail miserably. So I have decided to begin regular practice digital painting from photo's and possibly life until I can do that very well. It is the whole learn to walk before you run thing. This is a portrait of an evil child from some movie or television show Im assuming, I just painted it for practice.

-Meatmonkey

Concept: Ice Guardian

2009-10-17T21:31:00.001-07:00

Thief's Tale is officially on hold, but not cancelled, and this has greatly freed up my time. It feels good to sketch again, and I find its not like riding a bike. It will disappear on you faster than a parolee leprechaun if not maintained. This particular guy was done for an online concept group at Sketch Night, feel free to check it out. All the good time info will be in a post there!

-Meatmonkey

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2009-10-09T15:39:00.000-07:00

The "Thief's Tale" projects due date is fast approaching and I am far from completion to the degree I would of liked the art to be at. Trying to shove this much background art within a couple months is just not good for ones inner child. Its crying. As such I will have to make cut decisions for the IGF launch of the game, and come back over a few months afterwords and polish the game for the high definition version at a later date. Its sad, but will have to be done to make the deadline.
-Meatmonkey

Scrolling Waterfall

2009-10-02T16:10:00.000-07:00

Here is my first attempt at background animations for Thief's Tale. In this case its an 86 frame scrolling waterfall that will be placed all over have areas masked out to give it its ending shape. It will be a big part in the caves stage most likely, and used to a lesser degree in the cliffs. Make an asset use it as much as you can I guess.
-Meatmonkey

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2009-09-27T20:10:00.000-07:00

With the weekend comes a lot of hours of work on background painting. I put close to 30-40 hours this weekend as usual by not sleeping much and it seems like I barely put a dent in this project. Either way, this is a work in progress on the cave stage. The background is mostly in values at this point, and will be knocked back quite a bit before done. The caves stage will take the most work I feel out of all the stages, but only little time left will tell.

-Meatmonkey

Thief's Tale: The Princess

2009-09-25T23:08:00.000-07:00

Its surprisingly hard to get a low pixel female model to look correctly and was an unpleasant experience overall. The first attempt she looked like a he-she out of Silence of the Lambs. After take two, she looked more like a she-he with Homer Simpsons makeup shotgun. I eventually got her down to a clown whore, but I tried a third time and finally got something like this.

-Meatmonkey

Theif's Tale: The Captain

2009-09-24T17:52:00.001-07:00

The captain of the guards from the game "Thief's Tale". He is the leader of the Stooge's of the guards, and the largest Stooge of them all. Though he likes shiny things, he is dull and blunt as the weapon he carries. He may be made more ornate, but time restraints will tell.

-Meatmonkey

Thief's Tale: The Fencer

2009-09-23T17:25:00.001-07:00

Another work in progress character from the game "Thief's Tale". This one is a fencer, an elite personal guard of the evil princess. They are fast, vicious, and a little bit dandy. The work is still coming along, I might want to add a tunic type piece of clothing.

-Meatmonkey

Thief's Tale: The Guard

2009-09-22T19:54:00.001-07:00

Though the final may change some, this is my first draft of one of the enemies for Thief's Tale. The initial characters were already completed for the game, so my models for them should follow those designs. Unless I wanted to redo the ones completed, which I saw no need and dont have the time to complete.

-Meatmonkey

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2009-09-20T23:20:00.001-07:00

Another work in progress shot from Thief's Tale. Been hard at work trying to get as much done on this as possible, with little sleep this weekend. I have taken four stages to an early stages of completion. Right now Im trying to get every stage to a point if we had to launch we could, then go back any make everything the way I really want by adding onto it. This is still at the cut and paste stage, but at least its a different stage. Next week is going to probably be dedicated to character models so the Animator will have more time to play with them.

-Meatmonkey

Raygun

2009-09-18T14:13:00.000-07:00

Another old image that I want to get archived here onto this blog. This is a 3d model and render of the future of weaponry as thought by people in the past. Done in Maya, with me basically trying my hand at high end rendering stuff. Working on trying to finish a bunch of stuff for a deadline around the corner. Hopefully will have more to share with you all soon.
-Meatmonkey

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2009-09-15T13:04:00.000-07:00

Another work in progress of a stage screen from the game "Thief's Tale". Its starting to look more respectable but I have yet to really push it to where I want it to be yet. Right now Im still just making generic background elements and cut and pasting them together.

-Meatmonkey

Block: Fracture

2009-09-12T22:58:00.000-07:00

Another old painting that just wanted to get up for all to see. Hopefully I will get more time to do some traditional painting again here soon. I have been busy with other projects which are taking more time than expected.

-Meatmonkey

Lurker

2009-09-11T14:05:00.001-07:00

More bugs. I will probably come back to all these bug paintings and eventually work over them. Right now I am just trying to get as much practice with the "medium" as possible. When I have a good quantity of them done, I will take another look at them. Usually its good to take a look at something after some time has passed I have learned.
-Meatmonkey