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Friday, September 11, 2015

Class demo

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Something I painted for the "sculpting with light" demo in my digital painting class at BYU. The class is for animation students s...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Hearthstone Murkalot

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Something I did for the "Grand Tournament" expansion for Hearthstone.
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Monday, August 31, 2015

Early Infinity Pitch

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An image I did during very early explorations for Disney Infinity. At this point, the hope was that we'd have all sorts of types of toy ...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

Some character designs I did for Disney Infinity 3.0

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I did a bunch of work early on Disney Infinity 3.0, which is coming out in a week. Here are a few of the concepts that I did that I've s...
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Thursday, August 06, 2015

"How do you find time for personal art?"

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I was asked this question by another professor during the interview for my job at BYU. Now that I've been at BYU for almost a year, I un...
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Early Tinkerbell Designs for Disney Infinity

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The one on the left is from early exploration when we were trying to figure out the style of Infinity. The right was a modification I did ...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

Infinity: Guardians of the Galaxy enemies

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Various concepts for the Sakaaran enemies in Disney Infinity.
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Thursday, July 09, 2015

Gimme a Break

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Something I started for a demonstration at the Toronto Schoolism Live workshop this year. Finally finished!
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Monday, July 06, 2015

Some Gadgets from Disney Infinity

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I was asked to design a robotic flying turret for AIM, but I figured there was no reason why it couldn't have a pilot.  A car-size...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Hoverpirate

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Something I forgot to post with the others. This is the image I did the demonstration at the end of the atmospheric effects lesson.
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Atmosphere examples from my Schoolism class

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These are a bunch of examples I painted for the "Expressive Atmosphere" lesson of my Lighting for Story and Concept class. ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Cover and tutorial for ImagineFX

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 Finished this one recently. They pushed the saturation of the cover image into crazy land for some reason though, but I guess it turned out...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Symbols and Motifs Cheat Sheet

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I've been wanting to make something like this to use in my design classes for a long time now: a quick reference guide for visual symbol...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Hearthstone: Black Whelp

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A little dragon I did for Hearthstone's Blackrock Mountain. You can actually see it animated (whoever did that, good job!) in the traile...
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Saturday, May 30, 2015

A Jumble of Jasmines

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I didn't contribute much to the final Disney Infinity figure of Jasmine, but early on when we were figuring out the Disney Infinity styl...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

"What kind of brushes did you use for this?" (My CS6 brushes)

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As much as it is mocked by people, this is actually not a bad question! Although it can be difficult to answer, because it's not what th...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Disney Infinity: Guardians of the Galaxy

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I was watching the Guardians of the Galaxy tonight and thought it was time to post these. I didn't do a lot of concept for the Guardians...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Disney Infinity 3.0

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I did some work on Disney Infinity 3.0 before I left Avalanche to work at BYU, so I'm feeling pretty proud/happy seeing the stuff coming...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

More Infinity Avengers Stuff

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When I first drew the middle one I thought the lips were okay, but now that I see it I wonder what I was thinking. This one was real...
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Monday, April 27, 2015

Disney Infinity Avengers

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With Avengers: Age of Ultron coming out this week, it's a good time to pull out some Infinity stuff from the Avengers playset. At th...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Twilight Whelp

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A card I did for the latest expansion of Hearthstone.
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Disney Infinity Frost Giants

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I got to work on the frost giant designs for the Avengers playset.  The early versions were more beast than man for rating reasons. ...
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Concept artist, illustrator, and animation faculty at Brigham Young University.
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