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New Web Work


I've been holding onto a couple of these for a week. It's a pain to re-size everything so I tend to do it in groups. Also after this set, there should be a new group of speed paintings out soon. Just need one more to complete the set. So far this year is shaping up amazingly!

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I've been a big fan of Dylan Cole for a while now and after watching some of his tutorials again I wanted to try my hand at my own tropical paradise. I came up with something similar in concept, but different enough to call my own and spent the last week or so hammering it out. I have to say compared to Last Bastion, this was a snap as I established what I wanted with a color stu...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=29 %pm, %America/Phoenix %b %2012 %MST Speed Paint
New Art

Been painting quite a lot the past few days and came up with a new batch of speed paints each ranging from an hour and a half to two and a half hours. My goal with these was to stay as fast and loose as possible. It helps keep things organic and mistakes can lead to interesting effects. In comparison to paintings where ...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=28 %pm, %America/Phoenix %b %2012 %MST New Dreamer Art

So I was browsing along various stock imagery and came across an image that suddenly struck me as exactly what I was looking for to do this concept. While it didn't have any kind of mountains, it had the right perspective and rolling plains I was looking for. You can see the original plate in the link on the portfolio page. The name for the piece came from a line in the story where the main charac...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=27 %am, %America/Phoenix %b %2012 %MST New Matte Painting
Edit: 1/13 Time lapse added
New Time Lapse


Deciding to start the year off with a big matte painting which ended up taking around 30 hours or so since mid December. This piece took quite a bit of exploration to find what I was looking for and for a short while I wasn't sure if I could find it....]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=26 %am, %America/Phoenix %b %2011 %MST New Speed Paints
New Dreamer Concepts

This year is winding down already and quite a bit has been accomplished. Got this site up and running which was needed badly along with getting more work out than I did last year. Right now I'm in the midst of trying to make one last matte painting which is also being recorded. I'm thinking about trying ...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=25 %pm, %America/Phoenix %b %2011 %MST New Speed Paints
New Dreamer Concepts

It's been a little while since I've posted anything new. Just haven't had the time and motivation to sit down and do a full painting all the way through. I started a lot of things but just didn't quite finish. It comes down to I want to do it in the middle of the day when I'm at work, then when I get hom...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=24 %pm, %America/Phoenix %b %2011 %MST New Terraspace Piece

Edit 9/11/2011: New Dreamer Concept Piece

It's been some time since I did a new space piece and figured it was about time to change that. Spent a few days ironing it out and am fairly satisfied with what I got.

On another note if I were to add tutorials what kind would you like to see?...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=22 %pm, %America/Phoenix %b %2011 %MST New Concept Art
New Walkthrough

Over the weekend I decided to get working on the first concept for my story. Initially I started to create a piece and really had no idea where I wanted to go with it. I also started to use real textures way too soon and they just didn't mesh well with the piece anyway. So I decided to go and g...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=21 %pm, %America/Phoenix %b %2011 %MST
The initial version had a strong opening but I really had no idea where I wanted to take the story. It was then I realized that I didn't want to just create a story, I wanted to cre...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=20 %am, %America/Phoenix %b %2011 %MST Demo Reel
New Speedpaints

With a week off I was able to put some time into painting. My goal was to do a few quick speed paints for practice doing things I haven't really tried before. Each one took between one to two hours. For Futurescape while I did just do a city I haven't done a matte city where I take whats there and try to make it more sci-fi.
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Update 7/8/2011

The site is nearing completion, and the main thing that remains now is to fill in the portfolio section which will take some time to go thro...]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=14 %am, %America/Phoenix %b %2011 %MST
Stay tuned for additional news as well as real content in various areas.]]> http://www.lauverdesigns.com/news/entry.php?id=11