Creative Development: Character Concepting Workflows for Games in Photoshop with Eric Chiang

My tutorial is out! Check it out HERE Cheers, Eric

I've been sifting through some fashion blogs for reference and found some real interesting stuff. Did a couple studies. Enjoy

Pirates 4 skull sculpt

Haven't been posting much recently, so I wanted to share something. So many of you have probably seen the Pirates of the Caribbean 4 posters. I had the pleasure of working with Create Advertising on the Zbrush Sculpt of the skull. Pretty weird seeing it everywhere.

J.O.B

Just wanted to share some good news with everyone. I just accepted an offer for a concept artist position at The Workshop in Marina Del Rey. I'll be working on a game called Sorcery for PS3. I'm working with a lot of talented people and I'm sure I'm going to learn a lot. Here are the test pieces I did to land the gig:

Some old character studies that I dug up.

Birds of a Feather...

Click Clack

The Hellsitter/The Shapeshifter

In a past life they couldve been friends

Steamy Dragon Dump

So I'm taking a creature design class with Anthony Jones at Red Engine. Very insightful first week. Here are some sketches from our first assignment. Feels great to be back in school mode.

Got to sculpt for a couple hours today and here are the results. Doing a bit of clean up and refinement before I go in with some alpha stamps to get skin texture. The teeth are giving me problems as I have to kit bash from a set of human teeth. So yeah he needs more teeth with more randomness. Thanks for dropping by.

Chizzle

Heres more of the sculpt in progress. Found a cool material that automatically rim lights your sculpt. I've put more thought into how I can re use this sculpt for a creature concept pipeline. Having a 3d sculpt allows me to generate quick orthos like the example shown below.

Sick 'em!

Heres a sketch I did in my spare time. Got the mesh all blocked out in ZBrush w/zspheres and its ready to sculpt. Using this as an exercise to try a different approach. I'll post sculpting progress as I go along. Enjoy.
Sketch:

Zspheres:

Base Mesh:

Sculpt!

Go back to where you came from

Early Black Ops sketches

These sketches were done during the blue sky phase of Call of Duty Black Ops. Of course it wasn't called Black Ops at the time. To me it was just known as COD7. It was very early on in the production and they were exploring the idea of a secret submarine base so I was asked to pump out some sketches for them. It was a pleasure to lend a helping hand to Treyarch. I only wish I got to do more.