Skate2 projects and Skate 3 mall concepts.

Skate2 concept for under housing projects.

                        Above was a sketch for outdoor mall for Skate 2. It didn't fit into the scope of the project but the mall made it into Skate 3, concepts are below.

                                  

Above is a the final gameplay and design layout.  I built the location in sketch up and was able with sketchup to workout the gameplay with designers and producers, I had a total of 8 days to design the area. From blue sky ideas to a production worthy design.  It also had to be designed so that a modeler could model it in set amount of time. So was a tight target and feel proud about a lot of the work.

360 sky matte painting

These are three 360 degree paintings for two EA games.  The images are only 256 x 2048 pixels.  At first I was painting at double resolution but once we were iterating in game I began iterating one to one.  It was difficult going from film matte painting to working in games, it forced me to aim for a great image working with a low resolution image. A lot of impressionistic "down at the pixel level" painting (the contrail was made with a one pixel brush).

Above shows how I started a painting for a camera move first I took screen

grabs of entire move, you end up with a strange shaped image. Then sketched out perspective.( a tool was written later that would spit out a giant shape stitched together that was a bit quicker).Below is a different shot but shows a more finished image also with a similar camera move.

                           

EA skate concept art

These were two early concepts for EA skate, this was one of five concepts completed in a two week deadline.

world in a basement

                

rough sketch - concept art quality

                          This shows the process of making a realistic

 image starting with markers and chalk on craft paper, and then using that as guide in photoshop to add realistic textures over a 2d image. It was used as early concept art for a game idea that became EA Skate. This entire process took a day and a half.