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Figure Drawing

Spent the day figure drawing with the talented Burt Parks.

8 p.m. Singularity

Another personal piece assembled over a month or so from existing 3d assets, a Mental Ray ink and paint texture and photo reference. Inspired by one too many episodes of The Universe on Netflix – although if you can get it, How the Universe Works is better CG and a bit more informative.

Adventure World

Adventure World is an adventure-themed casual Facebook game, the first title to come from Zynga’s Boston office, an external studio formed after Conduit Labs (along with myself) were acquired in August of 2010. It’s one of the first Facebook games to feature Zelda-like puzzle and RPG elements in expansive maps, along with more traditional Zynga [...]

Coming Soon – Adventure World

I haven’t been able to post much in the last few months due to Conduit/Zynga’s new Facebook game being under wraps, but marketing art is finally getting out there now that the game is officially due to be launched in a few days. So here’s a few samples of what I’ve been up to this [...]

Conduit Labs acquired by Zynga

Just a quick note – Conduit Labs, who I’ve been working for since 2007 has been purchased by Zynga! The former crew of Conduit will now be ‘Zynga Boston’ in Central Square, and I’ll be starting work as a Senior UI artist on their next up and coming Facebook game. You can read a bit [...]

Pirate and Alien Concepts

Here’s a few quick pirates concepts for an as-yet-undisclosed casual Facebook game. (Hence the large heads, mildly retarded wall-eyed bird, excessive smiling and overall cloying aura of cuteness.) Click for a larger version. This concept art was for an internal game pitch similar in gameplay style to Dungeon Keeper (real time Starcraft styled base building).

Music Pets

Here’s a quick ‘landing page’ styled site I did for musicpets.com, a casual Facebook game based around feeding and playing music for your own cute little pet. The background art, fonts and assets were taken from the game itself, and site content uses Facebook’s developer’s tools for ‘Find Us’, ‘Like’ buttons and ‘Recommendations’. Amazingly cute [...]

Superdance Splash

A hand-drawn splash page/loading screen for SuperDance, another casual Facebook game by Conduit Labs that involves leveling up your own trendy club hopping hipster-themed alter-ego. The game is still a bit rough around the edges (beta). This drawing ended up getting vectorized and turned into an 8 ft. tall vinyl wall decal for the Conduit’s [...]

Insects of Unusual Size II

This is a second piece done in the same ‘Girls with Oversized Insects’ theme as the first and a companion piece. I’ll probably end up doing a third to round out the set. Same process – Photoshop sketch, printed as blue linework, reworked in pencil, scanned back into Photoshop and colored. Same color format as well – [...]

New Site up – SV Creations

Hey guys – I’ve got another website up , a WordPress-based portfolio site for the sickeningly talented sculptor/movie effects artist Scott Velenovsky. Scott contracted me to design an appropriately horrific framework to house his creatures, art and for pitching his impressive abilities to potential clients. After a look through his work, I knew I’d have [...]