"The Ritual" Movie Designs

The Jottun

Jottun Anterior

Jottun Lateral

Jottun Praying

Jottun Gait Study

Jottun Skeleton

Jottun Eyes

Effigy

Parishioner of the Congregation

Parishioner of the Congregation

Parishioner of the Congregation

Triadultus and Thanks!

Big thanks to everyone who voted for me in the Imagine FX favorite artists poll, landing me in second place!

Congrats to ImagineFx for reaching their 100th issue.  The Favorite Artists is covered in the Special Edition Supplement of the 100th issue: beta.imaginefx.com/shop/magazine/october-2013  

And here is that being I promised to complete for everyone as thanks:

The Triadultus have only made contact once.  Despite extreme reserve and secrecy in every other manner, their delegates arranged to meet in person at the First Contact Summit.  

Most of what can be postulated about the Triadultus is gleaned from exhaustive analysis of the physiology and behaviour of the delegates.  Notably they appear to be a colonial organism comprised of three distinct individual organisms. One organism comprises the base or "foot" of the body, and appears to be whole despite a physically intrusive interface with a lightweight synthetic trunk.  The two other partners in the entity appear to be cut down to a head and a single arm each.  

Communication at the summit was sparse and confused.  The Triadultus, despite initially appearing confident, became disoriented with their surroundings and uncomfortable with the human delegates.  Finely tuned questions and discussions-points from the Earth Plenipotentiary Peace Commission evidently disturbed the Triadultus representatives; revealing they were under the belief and experience that they physically resembled the homo sapiens they were meeting in every apparent measure.  The summit was cut short.  No followup communications with humanity have occurred since.

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

Volt from Warframe

Here's my design of Volt from the game Warframe. The first is my concept art, and the other three are in-game models. 

ImagineFX Vote Thanks

ImagineFX has mentioned that there have been a lot of votes coming in for me in their favourite fantasy artist category.  I'm very touched, and I wanted to make something as a thanks to everyone who went out of their way to vote.  If enough votes come in the next 8 days to manage a mentioned placement in the results I'll paint up the art of this being holding the "thank you" sign!  I'll also write a small story about what it is and what its world is like. Right now it's a mysterious being offering a big thanks to everyone!

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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.

Warframe Grineer Asteroid Base

An asteroid mining operation that has been adapted into a Grineer base.  From the game Warframe.

 Here's a shot of the interior from in the game.

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

Warframe

A little design work for the upcoming online game Warframe.

Leviathan Colour Art

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.

Shadow and Bone

An inset map for Leigh Bardugo's NY Times bestselling book Shadow and Bone.