Paul Christopher's Concept Blog

Practicing 3-D

My piddle paddle 3-d stuff. This design is of something rolling around in my head for some time now.

In the concept sketch above, I did not do any pre-designing and just started to pushing large shapes/geometries around. Below are some images that I generated because some students asked me to show them how I rough together some Motorcycle concepts from scratch.

I always stress to my students in class, to having a clear design direction, from the very beginning of your design goal. So even in the abstract (step 1) it is already obvious where things are headed. Keep drawing!

Hunger Games

I worked on this title briefly, had to generate a lot of work in no time at all.
These were intended for quick studies of the Capitol.

I also did some work for the Cornucopia, I will update soon.

Green Lantern Work

I have been extremely busy as of late. I have worked on some projects that I have to update this blog with. Sorry, just been extremely busy. I will update for this project and many more, soon to follow...

I was very happy to be in such an esteemed Art Department. I was amongst a very talented crew, Storyboard Artists, Art Directors, Set Designers, Conceptual Model Makers, everyone top notch also incredibly esteemed colleagues in the Concept Art realm. Cheers to Production Designer : Grant Major, & Director: Martin Campbell.

(Some of these images were collaborations with the talented Paul Ozzimo, Rodolfo Damaggio & Justin Sweet).

(Copyright Warner Brothers).

Some of my favorite things

Some of my influences, Craig Mullins and Jordu Schell,

were really swirling around the back of my head when I did this image.
Mullin's "Mass Effect 2" poster was the composition cake- I added different icing.

Blobs

I brake for blobs!

Princess of the Dead HeadGear

Just thought I should try some fun way to make a pretty girl, spooooky.

Oh, and this is her, before I cranked up the spook-knob higher.

CGMW DEMO

This image started in a demo I did for my CGMW class.

http://www.cgmwmasterclasses.com/vehicle-and-mechs-1.html

An assault vehicle ready for the fighting tracks!!!

A-10 study

...a quick study of one of my favorite planes

Princess Before & After

I have probably been watching too much Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones lately. Is there such a thing as watching too much of those titles- probably not. Any-who, here is my take on a Princess whose outer beauty becomes deformed...

CGMA Class

My CGMA class on Vehicle and Mech design is still open for enrollment. http://www.cgmwmasterclasses.com/vehicle-and-mechs-1.html .

Looking forward to seeing you there. This is a very dynamic class focusing aggressively on drawing and developing your personal design voice. I cover fairly advanced design philosophies so bringing basic drawing skills into this class will help, but I emphasize fundamentals for beginner students as well. Please open the door to see what is going on inside the class :)

http://www.cgmwmasterclasses.com/paul-christopher-bio.html

The Strong

Louis Armstrong and a Mr. Michael Codd. One name might be familiar to you, but another one might not. Indeed they are both strong!Louis is a brilliant musician, and Michael Codd is a brilliant painter.

I happened to have the great privilege of viewing Mr. Codd's paintings in person (36" x 48 " gouache paintings- the man is for real!!!) and boy did I "hear the music".

So this one goes out to Michael Codd.

An exquisite chip off the block-

http://www.mattcodd.com/Matt_Codd/Concept_Art/Pages/Paintings_and_Drawings_Book.html