Kaiju Onibaba

A new piece of concept art that's been released on the net.  One of my earlier stabs at the Kaiju Onibaba from the movie Pacific Rim.

Onibaba

Pacific Rim out today!

Pacific Rim is out today, so please go check it out this weekend if you can!  Here's a piece of art of mine from the movie's development that's been getting shown around the net (and is also included in the art book: Pacific Rim: Man, Machines, and Monsters )

The Epiphyte

Pacific Rim Screening

Just got back from the cast and crew screening of Pacific Rim.  Guillermo Del Toro's love of the theatre experience is such a part of the fabric of the movie, it really deserves to be seen in a theatre setting.  It's an awesome movie, very proud to be a part of it.

Pacific Rim Russian Futurist Propaganda Poster

It looks like my Pacific Rim Russian futurist style propaganda poster is one of the posters that comes with the art book. It's the one on the right.

Mural from the movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Art Print Props

Here's a look at the art prints available from my website used as props in the movie
Don't be Afraid of the Dark.  

In their context, they're illustrations made in 1909 by the movie's artist, Blackwood.  They're maddened ruminations on his son's abduction by fairies.

This was the first version of the fairy depiction.  I was going for something very mysterious, as though the artist had only half glimpsed what they looked like (the earlier depictions of the fairies in this series hadn't been made yet.)  In the end it was modified to more closely match the actual creature designs I worked on that went into the movie.  The final version of the illustration can be seen in the last screenshot below.

Homunculi

Some designs for the Homunculus creatures in the movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

Pacific Rim

Starting over a year ago I've been designing on Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming movie Pacific Rim. It's about humanity fighting off a Kaiju apocalypse with giant robots called Jaegers.  There should be some cool stuff to show soon from Comic-Con 2012.   My work on the movie wrapped up last week and I should now have more time to post new things.

Book Cover

Here's a little look at the book cover featuring my mural artwork from Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

Guillermo Del Toro had it done as a completely separate accompanying story to the movie.  Written by Christopher Golden, it contains some of my Blackwood drawings from the film and is fully illustrated by Troy Nixey.  The book's got a really nice texture and feel, and I'm really thrilled by how the cover ended up.  Both the book and the movie are out.

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark - Trailer

Here's a new trailer for a movie I designed on:

This trailer has some nice shots of the creatures, and also some shots of my actual artwork itself (a mural and some period illustrations.)  It should be coming out late August, and I'll post more details about it soon.

At The Mountains of Madness

During the past half year I've been designing on Guillermo Del Toro's At The Mountains of Madness.

Now that the film is sadly on hold, my schedule will allow me to start up a blog.   Here I can cover what I'm up to and show things I've created or have been inspired by.

The huge amount of development completed for Mountains was full of things that defied description.   Dennis Muren (Industrial Light and Magic) had said "Do you realize nobody has ever seen monsters like this, ever?"  With James Cameron producing it was guaranteed the vistas would have been horrifically mind bending in 3D.

It was creatively euphoric working in the amazing team of artists that Guillermo put together:

Wayne Barlowe

Allen Williams 

Franciso Ruiz Velasco

 

Guy Davis

Peter Konig 

And then there's the guy at the helm, with the vision of the whole thing, Guillermo Del Toro.  It's always a thrill to work on any of his projects.

All of the artists' works featured here are, of course, not from the film's production.  Those cyclopean stacks of unutterable visions will remain hidden away from human eyes, waiting a little longer to be unleashed into our fragile reality.