antifan's CGPortoflio Gallery

Concept piece

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:44:00 +0000

Hello all,

I�ve been requested a lot of times to post this image - so it's about time I did. Anybody who has bought "Bold Visions" will be familiar with this piece �Theatre�. It is a video game concept, the area depicted ended up being on fire in the game, but the basic ideas of the setting are underpinned here.

Original res 3600 wide
Based loosely on a quick sketch by - Andy Wright.
Painted in PS CS3
Wacom Intous 3 tablet
About 8 hours work (I think)

*Image copyright 2008 THQ*

Enjoy!

G x

Speed painting - "Hidden City"

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:26:49 +0000

Hello!

It is amazing what a little time and inclination can do for ones creativity - I've managed to do 3 images in the last 3 lunchtimes (with a little tinkering at night). This one is different again - "Junker barges bring God knows what to God knows where"

This image took a couple of hours or so again - probably about 120-130 mins, just because I was messing with the atmosphere etc � kinda fun to paint, I love the idea of old boat like craft that defy gravity, but somehow need sails and smoke pluming engines to move about!

Original res 3500 pixels (high)
Painted in PS CS3
Intous 3 Tablet

Who knows when I'll get chance to sketch again!

G x

Showreel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdOUJ5KilN0&fmt=22

Orbit - Redux

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:28:11 +0000

This is a little bit of a revisit to an old idea � �Orbit� was originally just me mucking about but became very popular for prints and publishing � however I never really thought that much about it at the time (I was literally just sketching space art as a bit of fun between projects). I loved the idea of the piece so now, 8 years on I've had another stab at it.

�A highly advanced race builds an enormous spaceport off the coast of a continent, dwafing the 20km high skyscrapers on the land, the main structure brushing the cloud layers with near 100km diameter docking spurs surrounding it. Built above the main structure, another level that is beyond the atmosphere � allowing craft to dock without braving the weather on the planet�

Painted in Adobe PS CS3
Wacom Intous 3 Tablet
Original res 5k wide
About 20-22 hour work.
I used some great photos of Earth from space as reference for the world.

G x

Geo-thermal Electrical Turbine

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:43:54 +0000

Just fooling around for the hell of it
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A suspended superstructure converting geothermic energy into power for a planet. Just though it would be fun to paint - not for any project.
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About 10-12 hours work
4.4k height - original res
CS3
Wacom Intuos 3 Tablet
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G x

Type-25 Impreza MY 2008 II

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:57:55 +0000

Advertising material
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This is the second for the new 2008MY Type-25 Subaru Impreza by Litchfield Imports. Intended to be shown in sequence with the first image - this time the car is shown from the front, after it has driven into the sunrise as it travelled up the mountain pass.

Specs are yet to be confirmed but are going to be around:

495bhp
0-100mph ~8 secs.

Original image specs:

7.25k wide
48-bit colour
Photoshop CS3
Wacom Intous 3
50-60 hours

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Photo source for car - but totally repainted when matted with digital background
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Original photo

http://www.visionafar.com/DA/02_photo.jpg

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25% image
http://www.visionafar.com/DA/T-25_02.jpg

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The Sky Opens

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:07:12 +0000

A human male climbs frantically to a hidden location on a botanically and nature overgrown future Earth as the ominous devices arrive again to take us.

Just playing around with some ideas - quite a dark vision for me I guess, but I quite like it.

Painted in CS3
Intous 3 Tablet
Original Res 8k wide
About 15 hours painting time.

Type-25 Impreza MY 2008 I

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:34:08 +0000

Advertising material
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This is for the new 2008MY Type-25 Subaru Impreza by Litchfield Imports. Driving fast across an epic landscape between dawn and sunrise.
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Specs are yet to be confirmed but are going to be around:
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495bhp
0-100mph ~8 secs.
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Original image specs:
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7k wide
48-bit colour
Photoshop CS3
Wacom Intous 3
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Photo source for car - but totally repainted when matted with digital background
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Original photo:
http://www.visionafar.com/DA/01_photo.jpg

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25% image
http://www.visionafar.com/DA/T-25_01.jpg

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City Docks

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:09:19 +0000

This image will appear on page 2 of my new illustration book

BOLD VISIONS

Image took about 20 hours or so and depicts large city like craft docking atop enormous buildings on a far off planet. I'm not that pleased with it to be honest - I had to finish it earlier that I would have hoped, but that's art I guess!

Original res 4k wide.
CS3 and a Wacom Intous 3 tablet.

FULL VIEW THIS - small image has suffered JPEG nonsense because of the blue-green colour range.

I hope you like it.
G x

Speedpaint - Neglected Beetle

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:23:32 +0000

A little bit of spare time - whoo! I've wanted to paint a beetle for ages - such a striking little car. Anyway, this took about 100 mins or so, an old rusty car sitting in the rain at night. Photo ref for car of course.

Photoshop CS3
Wacom Intous 3 (A5)
Original res - about 3k wide.

G x

Speedpaint - Future City

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:48:04 +0000

Very busy at work and in the home studio with the book, not had much chance to do any other art really.

Time to paint - ~80 mins (on top of a crop from another image of mine which accounts for about 25-30% of the piece you see here - so that saved a little time -)

PS CS2
Wacom
Final res is the posted res.

Back to work I guess!

G x

Speedpainting - Underwater Base

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:36:43 +0000

Not been about much, been very busy and not had time to do much work for fun so I thought I'd do a quick doodle to post.

This image took about 65-75 minutes of painting time - formed in an ad-hoc way; I kinda just let the image come about - no plans.

Original image size ~3500 wide
All painting in PS
Wacom Intuos Tablet.

Stormbringer

Thu, 25 May 2006 08:48:14 +0000

�Swirling majestically through the sky, a Storm Angel conjures deep, laden clouds to bring much needed rain.�

I do not update my Vision Afar site often enough and I don�t create enough personal figure work. This image is intended to fix both of those. I will be updating my site shortly with this on the front page. The pose was tricky.

I hope you like it.

Many hours � more than 30
Photo references from all over the place - pose inspiration from darkmatterzone on DA.
Original res 4350x5900.
Painted entirely in Photoshop CS.

PROMETHEUS

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:00:12 +0000

An image depicting our World in the future. A majestic antigravity cruise ship is tended too 8 hours before it departs, it�s passengers boarding in their own time from the terminal building and personal transports, knowing they will not see Earth again for 9 months, twenty Star systems and 165 light years.

I'm a little gutted I did not get this finished in time for Expose IV, meaning I did not get anyhting in there, but it's about time I pulled my finger out and did some more personal images for VA. I hope you like it.

Painted in Adobe PhotoShop CS
Wacom Intuos 2 Tablet
22-23 hours.
Original res 6000x3250

1280 image:

Speedpaint - Statue

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:23:30 +0000

I created this image as a training session for the concept department at work, which has subsequently been published in ImagineFX this month in their workshop section.

The piece took about 60 minutes of actual painting time, mixed in with tuition and technique explanations with the artists.

Image size 2.5k wide, Photoshop CD + Wacom Intous 3

Ascenders

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:03:21 +0000

Speedpaint, I probably spent about 80-90 minutes on it over a couple of lunchtimes, at least 15 minutes of which I was wasting time on details I ended up removing in the end.

original res 4k high
Adobe PhotoShop CS
Wacom Intous Tablet.

The Room

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:29:41 +0000

Concept Painting
This is another Expose III submitted image.
The image was created as a guide for modelling and texture artists, demonstrating the look and feel of an enviroment. The intended sensation being that it's tempting to go towards the window, but somehow there is also a threatining feeling over there.
This concept was painted in ~7-8 hours using PhotoShop CS + Intuos 2 Tablet. Original res 1600x2450

Basilica

Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:03:23 +0000

"Surrounded by mountains, the waters of an evening sea, a delicate sunset and the activity of a large city; An ancient temple stands high, dwarfed by life and framed in nature."
What the hell, I've never posted here before so I thought I'd give it a shot.
This piece was created in Photoshop CS and a Wacom Intous 2 tablet.
Original res: 4600x3500
~18 hours.

Video Game Concepts.

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:54:12 +0000

It�s been a while since I have been able to post (or paint) anything so I thought I would put up some concepts I worked up a while back for a (unnamed at present) video game project. The environments were intended to be very high saturation, yet dramatic, with the different areas being distinguished by elemental based look and feel. For instance there are a number of �Fire Dungeon� images here and a couple from the potential other areas (although this is the extent of my work on the project)
The characters (where used) were really there only for scale and proportion. I�m not a big fan of character design so I just threw these in to give a feel.
Images below:
G.

2006 Type-25

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 18:18:06 +0000

An image for the new 2006 model of the Subaru Hybrid "Type-25" Impreza.
Rather than fast moving shots for this campaign, I've started with a menacing
looking environment with the car sitting in it.
To create this image I had to take a pretty low res web image of the car (as
none of these have arrived in the UK as yet) and scale it up 300% to start
work. Re-detailing, re-lighting and adding features and options the car
took quite some time. The background is to represent the rather serious
nature of this cars performance. 400 BHP - 0-100mph 9.5 seconds.
There will be more in this series.
Image size - 3.3k wide.
For more information go to:
www.type-25.com
Low res original image:

33% res image

Spirit Rising

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:05:04 +0000

This image depicts the effort of humanity as it reaches out into the universe from their home world.
The figure is standing on a very high peak surrounded by their civilisation. It's symbolic of how someone may stand as high as possible on their world, looking up into the heavens wishing to journey further.
Drawn in PhotoShop CS with a Wacom Tablet
original res about 4000x4000.
Photo ref for figure (thank you Lisa

Raevona - Docking Towers

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:02:01 +0000

Who�s to say there are not worlds out there where advanced races visit each other in peace? With this in mind I have painted a craft-height view of one of these worlds, showing large docking towers reaching into the Stratosphere. These structures surrounded by the immense civilisation of this distant planet.
This image will be part of my update to VA in the next week or so (I hope)
Original size - 5k wide
~20 hours or so; the perspective, lense bending and angle caused me quite a bit of grief.
Painted in Photoshop with a Wacom Intous 2 Tablet.
Larger version

Outpost

Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:19:15 +0000

An Expose III submitted image - good old spaceships. Kind of a smuggling, intergalatic-pirate feel to this I guess...
"Multiple patrol craft escort a transport towards an isolated, solar sailed outpost deep within a burgeoning nebula"
Painted in Photoshop CS using a Wacom Tablet.
Original res 5000x3000 - ~15 hours.

Project Type-25

Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:23:41 +0000

These three images were commissioned by a car modification company around 12 months ago. They were engineering a hybrid Subaru Impreza called the �Type-25� which to cut a long story short was a pretty scary car.
www.type-25.com
What they needed were some marketing images, I suggested that we show the car in different settings and from different angles to show off its dynamic intentions. Rather than fly the car out to different locations around the world, I painted Hyper-real backdrops and gave the car motion from two studio photographs and an action track day shot.
The images were created to fairly limited timescales, taking about 5-6 hours each, which kind of suited the rough, limited brush stroke feel to the backgrounds � the images were all 5k wide (for print purposes).
�TOYKO� - shows the car running down a Japanese high street
�YOKOHAMA� � illustrates the car stretching its legs on the Tokyo to Yokohama highway.
�NEVADA� � Shows the car in a different environment � throwing up dust and dirt at good old sunset.
The original photographs can be seen here:

Tarriance

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:27:25 +0000

Another in the series of of-world pieces I painted for Vision Afar (when I have time). "A passenger craft lands for a short stop-over on a distant, recently colonised world."
This image was submitted for Expose 3.
Original res: 5900x2700
Painted in Adobe Photoshop CS with a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet.

New Worlds

Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:05:16 +0000

A rough-ish concept image created for an IMAX movie proposal.
"A Newly born world and its twin moon are being pounded by meteors and debris as they swirl around their parent stars and both slowly taking on mass"
about a days work I guess.
Original res - 5000x2700
Adobe PhotoShop CS Wacom Tablet.

Tree Root Canopy

Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:28:59 +0000

I've been doing a lot of work recently that I can't show (which is always a downer) and a lot of other work cramming to finish off a major project which is eating into my art time!
This is a concept image illustrating an area with such enormous vegetation that people can actually walk under the roots of the larger trees. I always loved the look of "A Bugs life" when they turned mere blades of grass into glowing cathedral-like ceilings and the like; I've just made the foliage larger rather than the characters smaller.
Original res ~3k
Painting in Photoshop CS with a Wacom Intuos 2 Tablet.

2006 Type-25 Ii "velocity"

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:37:13 +0000

A second image for the new 2006 model of the Subaru Hybrid "Type-25" Impreza.
This image shows the car moving over a lava and dust ridden environment. I can�t believe how much trouble the colour of the car gave me in getting it to look cool/super-real and still recognisable. Black is an absolute nightmare, even more so if you only take a couple of quick snaps of the car as reference� That being said, I�m quite satisfied with the outcome, the background looks dirty enough without impinging on the car too much. I just wish I could keep a black car that clean!
Image size - 3.7k wide.
For more information go to:
www.type-25.com
Rather nasty original photo reference:

33% res image