An alien world out there...PART 2

So as promised, I have continued (aka found 30 spare mins) on this location shot inspired by my cravings for Prometheus (7 days!!!!!!)

Basically the initial environment existed and now needed beefing up. I was liking the atmospheric sky of smoke but genererally I wanted to bring the lighting as a whole, down a bit. For a more 'other worldly' quality I added a (very) near moon/planet and slight stars in space.

*as a side note I love making random planets and just saving the raw psd files. You never know when you may need a groups of planets or moons for a location or for a space ship to pass by. I may include a quick PShop tutorial on doing this as its quick and easy :)

Next was a tad more lighting to keep the interest. Using a dodge layer I added a haze of northern-light-type streaks through the sky...

So whats next on the agenda. I need to populate it with something and that is likely to be a vehicle. Anyone who wants to suggest ideas let me know

An alien world out there...

A start up piece from today. Anyone who knows me and my enthusiasm for sci-fi will be aware of a little film called Prometheus that I want to see. So to strive off the wait I started a lil Alien inspired piece. So far it just started as a 20min warm up but I want to keep this one going so lets call this part1. Any suggestions as to what to add would be cool.

Quick piece

This was a very quick bit of sketch practice and working from a texture layer. Not much else to say really...

Sketch build up

Hello people.

Just a quick pic for a morning warm up exercise. Im not sure if the floating shape will stay in the shot but this is the fairly low res version of it so far. Maybe I'll come back to it, maybe I won't. Who knows...
Any thoughts?

Hi 2012

So as always Ive become crap at posting. Along with many plans I intend to post more work and ideas this year. Recently watched Cowboys vs Aliens which planted a visual in my head and actually an idea for an art book but thats just an idea at the moment. So here for your enjoyment is a warm up exercise inspired by Prototype and the sequel to the game (cleverly titled Prototype 2...) that comes out later this year. Here is some form of military official who is possibly infected. Done in 25mins. Going to do more of these as warm ups. Gives me more practice at characters too...

Something is coming...

Thanks to the guys at Turneshoe Productions I can show this teaser pic for a project Im working on with them which will be completed and entered into a competition in the next few months. Stay tuned...

Top 5 of 2011

A late post recently yet again but here is my Top 5 film of 2011;

5. I Saw the Devil
- a strong, strong movie from the director of my favourite Korean movie A Bittersweet Life.

4. TT3D: Closer to the Edge
- inspiring and down right crazy documentary on the Isle of Mann TT race.

3. Red State
- great to see Kevin Smith right back on track with a very cool film.

2. Drive
- blogged about it before and can't wait for its DVD release.

1. Super 8
- Goonies meets Close Encounters. Nostalgia trip to the max. LOVE IT.

Special honourary mention:
I thought of having this as a joint 5 but I'll add it here. Anyone who hasn't seen this must check it out immediately. Mel Gibson's The Beaver was just great. Dissregard anything he's done. He knows this character.

Enjoyos!