tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58479106972555664992024-03-17T00:17:17.458-07:00Phil Saunders' Random StuffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-63742390578130709092018-03-10T11:24:00.000-08:002018-03-10T11:24:14.255-08:00Portal Island Transformation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-79712722446598489682014-07-22T21:10:00.001-07:002014-07-22T21:10:21.327-07:00More WOW...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are the latest two cards I did for World of Warcraft TCG (set 21), along with the rough sketch and the finished card...</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-88839234456798139692014-07-10T21:33:00.001-07:002014-07-10T21:35:42.794-07:00Nuthin' but Mech 2<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I contributed the couple of pieces below to Lorin Wood's second great mech anthology book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nuthin-But-Mech-Volume-2/dp/1624650104" target="_blank">Nuthin' but Mech 2</a>. Out now, and the profits go to a great cause, my friend and fellow Presto Studios alumni <a href="http://teamgt.com/" target="_blank">Francis Tsai</a>'s <a href="http://kotaku.com/5966448/crippled-by-disease-this-artist-found-a-way-to-keep-drawing/" target="_blank">battle with Lou Gehrig's disease</a>. Check it out, I'm humbled to be among so much stunning imagination, inspiration and mastery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This next one printed very dark in the book, so I'm happy to be able to show it a little more clearly here. A keyframe painting from my personal project <i>Scavenger</i>.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-61331048447305238692014-07-10T21:09:00.001-07:002014-07-10T21:09:46.904-07:00Some Iron Man 3 stuff...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wow, seems laughable every time I read my last post and realize how poorly I've been keeping this up. If I claim I'm going to be posting regularly, don't believe a word of it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway, I'm done after a year-long stint on Avengers 2, so I have no excuses! So the below was posted some time ago on the ill-fated CGHUB, so it's about time I post it here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some of the other specialty suits that made it into the final battle. They all get featured at one point or another, but the way it was shot it's hard even for me to tell them all apart!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These are from 2005, one of the first movie projects I worked on, I Dream of Jeannie: the Movie. Actually had a fun script that spent a good third of the running time in ancient Persia. Too bad it never got made. This illo was produced in the days when I was transitioning from pencil and marker and traditional media to Photoshop, so it's a pretty lifeless piece and you can imagine how much painstaking time went into it compared with today's techniques. Still, it was a lot of fun for the time. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway, I'm going to wait until the Art of Book comes out on the 14th to post any work, but I'll be putting some stuff up here, so keep your bookmarks hot. There's even a final battle suit design that accidentally got left out of the book, so I'll get to put up some "exclusive" content :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stay tuned...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-33862325857717546762013-05-07T21:28:00.003-07:002013-05-07T21:28:50.642-07:00Ray Harryhausen, R.I.P.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seems like these have been a couple of years of the passing of the greats. After Ralph McQuarrie and John Berkey, now Ray Harryhausen has left us. The Sinbad movies were a highlight of my childhood. They fell into the very limited category of movies that my mother would allow us to stay up for if they were on TV, even on a school night. Very special indeed. Part of the magic that led me to this business in the first place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He will be missed, but his impact lives on in all of us who pursue the magic of the movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May he rest in peace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Or, his skeleton could come to life and move around in herky-jerky movements. He's certainly earned that much. And I wouldn't put it past him. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-48258167439943161892013-04-09T13:17:00.000-07:002013-04-09T13:17:50.571-07:00Superman "Flyby" - The ROUSER.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The highlight of the project was Superman's cousin Kata-Zor's giant battle mech. The film climaxed with an epic battle between Superman and this Kryptonian battle pod. Despite the numerous logic bombs in the conception of the sequence, it still would have been a cool scene to watch!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These were some early concepts that were rightfully rejected as too "chicken-like," but I enjoyed envisioning some alternative weapon configurations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two versions of the interior. Production designer Owen Patterson wanted to represent Kryptonian technology as a backlit glowing green energy. The Mech would be controlled by a motion control scanner that would translate the pilots motions into movement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When it was considered that the vfx and wirework required for the zero-G gyroscope would be too expensive for every shot, I had to come up with an alternative design that could be achieved practically. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've posted this before, but here is the climactic battle. Once again, I wish I could have used a more dramatic angle, but the production designer wanted a clear sense of scale between Superman and the Rouser. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The battle ends when Superman flies circumnavigates the globe before the Rouser can turn around, building up enough momentum to fly through the battle pod. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Boy did I get a lot of mileage out of that one sketch, huh? Anyway, an interesting project that never saw the light of day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is work I did for Brett Ratner & J.J. Abrams' version of Superman. I was brought on when Owen Patterson brought in a new art department after the previous production led by Arthur Max went down. So ultimately I was tasked with designing the vehicles, taking over where my friend Harald Belker left off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first job was to design the pod that baby Kal-El crash lands at the Kent Farm with (and flies back to Krypton in at the end... you'd have to read the script.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are, of course, time-traveling back to the days of pencil sketches and marker renderings, so bear with me :). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This one was my favorite version. I like the engine concept. Going to have to use that on something else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was the design that Owen Patterson finally approved. He was looking for something as simple as possible, with no visible external signs of technology. Like a chrome teardrop. Of course, "Flight of the Navigator" was never mentioned. Ever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The challenge with this one of course was to come up with an interior concept that would accommodate both a baby and fully grown Kryptonian. So I came up with a baby seat. Krypton style. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This is how the script envisioned the crash site. Ma and Pa Kent would have been pretty startled in the middle of their breakfast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The cab is above the quad wheels, which would have turned as a unit, pivoting from below the cab. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-45497131921648585932013-02-22T15:54:00.001-08:002013-02-22T15:54:23.026-08:00Random Tron sketch...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's a little sketch I did while we were working on background vehicles for Tron:Legacy. Fun with the speedpainting brush set David Levy made us for Tron. You never know what shapes you'll come up with and the technique is fast and addictive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This would have been a Corvette, maybe an escort vehicle for the Rectifier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Originally there was another class of craft like a one-alien flyer that would detach from the Jumbo, and these I envisioned as being the spines of the Jumbo that would drop off like shed scales and unfold into something like wingsuits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The chariot was pretty self-explanatory, A craft that would carry a pilot and one or two gunners in the back. I liked the idea of the pilot being somewhat integrated into the craft, an idea that Ryan Meinerding pursued as well into the final design you see in the film. At this point we had yet to design the Aliens themselves, we just knew that they would be basically humanoid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To design the cruise missile I had to take Josh Herman's beautiful model of the Mk 7 and chop it up, re-articulating it so that I could pack the major components in as tightly as possible with a minimum of theoretical interpenetration. The other goal was to come up with a shape that would allow as much of the actual skin of the suit to be visible but unrecognizable as a suit until the transformation, with a minimum of added panels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I liked the dynamic visual of ejectable fairing panels blowing off in flight like an ICBM as you'll see in the following clip. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's my first
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Modo is relatively limited in its animation tools, so this is necessarily crude. We knew the tough work would be carried out by the visual effects team, so I only had to go so far to give them a starting point. Ultimately in the movie I think there's more "Transformers" sleight-of-hand going on in the short sequence, but I like to think this gave them a jumping-off point. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-50742285737702050902013-01-24T15:52:00.004-08:002013-01-24T15:59:38.914-08:00More WOW!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">... As in World of Warcraft trading cards. These I did over the last couple of years, from sets 15 and 16. As always, I take these on as a fun break from hard surface concept design, and it gives me an opportunity to just do pure illustration and try out new brushes and techniques. As reference material is usually provided in the form of screen caps of the low-poly models from W.o.W., I'm not bogged down in the nitty-gritty of design problem solving. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Okay, now that I'm seeing them all together I think I may have to vary my compositions a bit!!! No more right hand in foreground!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-66491802315821079472013-01-23T11:18:00.005-08:002013-01-24T16:00:37.323-08:00Avengers Aliens<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had a brief stint working on the Ch'tauri (though they weren't called that at the time) while in the Visual Development department. I took a couple of passes of refining <a href="http://www.justinsweet.com/GALLERY/index.html" target="_blank">Justin Sweet</a>'s <a href="http://www.worldofsuperheroes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/lineup13.jpg" target="_blank">original designs</a> and attempting to define the look of the armor & weapons and how they might integrate into the creature. Ultimately Ryan Meinerding developed the final look in Z-Brush. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I imagined the helmet as being a little deceiving, so that ultimately when the mask was ripped off you would find that the creature had air holes in the place of eyes, which would actually be to either side of the mouth. I also liked the idea of some kind of "light chainsaw" that would wrap around the forearm. Kind of the hedge trimmer of your nightmares. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My first ideas never went past the rough sketch form as Jos Whedon considered them too sci-fi:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The design was refined to more of a conventional aircraft with some F-35 characteristics and variable geometry in the cockpit section like the Concord. The nose could drop and the wing tips fold down, giving it a bird of prey attitude during VTOL, as the unfinished sketch at the bottom shows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ultimately Production Designer James Chinlund was looking for a more brutal, ground attack craft aesthetic and the need to cross the globe in an hour was no longer a priority, so the aerodynamic qualities were downplayed and I pursued this concept that's a little more A10 Warthog-like:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Early work in progress gives a peek in to my process, as well as showing my initial thought as to how this would work in VTOL mode, but the design was rejected as still too streamlined and futuristic before I could develop it any further.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Given the note of "more attack-chopper-like" and having been steered toward referencing the Apache and Comanche helicopters, I headed in a different direction with this one: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fellow concept artist & modeler <a href="http://www.mm3dcg.com/" target="_blank">Mike Meyers</a> had developed a rough
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While I would have liked to refine the design further (In particular the rear and engine area which is pretty basic and crude in its forms) I was pretty pleased with the overall concept and think it would have been a very unique and dynamic aircraft. As it turned out Tani's excellent design had already gained traction with James Chinlund and Joss Whedon with it's complex forms and canopy evoking such navy carrier planes as the Tracker and Grumman Prowler, so ultimately that design was chosen and passed on to Paul Ozzimo for further refinement in 3-D. Someday I'll jump back into Modo on my own and develop a design I like based on this geometry.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-92111276899392554272013-01-22T17:31:00.005-08:002013-01-24T16:02:56.908-08:00More early Helicarrier...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A few more Helicarrier designs, drawing more from the idea of a massive amphibious transport aircraft with a carrier deck on its back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-38942698349725308912013-01-22T17:15:00.002-08:002013-01-24T16:04:15.455-08:00Remember Avengers?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yeah. Been awhile. And Avengers is old news.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But as anyone who... ahem...'follows'... my blog, it's not something that focuses on timeliness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Better late than never, eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I do have a big dump to put up, as I spent a little time on almost every aspect of the movie, including the Helicarrier, Quinjet, Aliens and Alien craft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, prompted by special request, I'm putting up a selection of my work on Avengers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So lets begin with a few bits of what you've come to expect from me and the one design of mine that made it into the film untouched... the MK 7. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below are the initial 3 sketches I did early on before we knew what the Mk 7 should be. The first was actually a revision of a design I had been thinking of initially for Iron Man 2 before ultimately choosing another project. It was a lighter, more streamlined version of what had come before, trying to integrate a flowing theme wrapping around the "RT" on the chest and mirroring that fast line through the body. This was more of the evolutionary design, and ultimately was approved pretty much immediately as a starting point for the Mk 7. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next design was playing around with the stance of the suit toward more of a brawler attitude, somewhat beefier and less aircraft-like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lastly was a more extreme departure, trying to create a very different silhouette, sort of the Stark Industries answer to a more heavily militarized suit like War Machine, but drawing from Air Force form language instead of Army. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Further discussion of the function of the suit in the script lead to the idea of having a more armored suit that over the course of battle would shed its ammo packs and additional armor. Styling elements from the first and third concepts were integrated and the design was revised as below...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The final design would incorporate a thruster backpack for the pivotal final battle, which wrapped around the "lats" and "serratus" areas under the arm to form flush mounted adjustable intake vanes. Much of the approach was based on the mantra of the "wearable Ferrari" so a lot of attention was spent on creating flowing lines from chest though the torso, pelvis, arms and legs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Final design detailing was painted over turnarounds of the Mk 4 suit, to keep proportions consistent and realistic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lastly elevations were painted at an extreme level of detail to make sure lines would resolve all the way around the surface, giving our modeler Josh Herman a solid foundation to build from. Even still a lot was resolved in the modeling process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The final model below, digitally sculpted by Josh Herman, reflects a very tight collaborative process to create the final form. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-55716495250638610532012-08-12T20:24:00.000-07:002012-08-12T20:24:47.794-07:00io9 "Best of the Week"...<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I just peeked into io9.com, one of my favorite sites, and was surprised to see one of my old concept paintings from Jon Favreau's version of </span><u style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Carter of Mars</u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> up as the header picture for the </span><a href="http://io9.com/5933849/best-of-the-week-august-4+10-2012" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank">Best of the Week</a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Nice to see that this unmade dream still lives on...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-8042677153211958462012-06-07T22:05:00.002-07:002012-06-07T22:05:19.668-07:00R.I.P. - John Michael Riva<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mourning my first mentor in the film business, and the man who gave me my big break. Working with Mike was like a window into an Art Department of years past, when making a movie was just a shared good time and everyone was high on the joy of the creative process. Nothing since has matched the sheer fun of making Zathura, when the future of the studio wasn't riding on our shoulders and it seemed only we knew what a gem we were putting together. It felt like everyone in the Art Department was eager to be at work and reluctant to leave, even after Mike called out "Okay kids, pencils down!" promptly at 6:00. And it wasn't just because of the 20 year old scotch he'd have just cracked open to share. That energy came from Riva, a knowing grin that we weren't curing cancer, that if we didn't have a good time making the movie, no one would have a good time watching it either. It's a secret that seems to be lost to the business these days, when everything seems to get more and more squeezed. </span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mike protected his crew. He knew the value of having a life and balance, and made sure we all kept ours. Mike's art department was a family, with all of the highs and lows, the love and disfunction, but one thing you knew with Mike, was that it was never just business with him. He cared. About the work, and about everyone who shared that work with him. And those that knew him knew that sometimes he cared maybe a bit too much, for good and for ill. It was always personal to Mike. But that's what I'll miss. Everything is "just business, nothing personal" these days. And it'll get just a bit more so without Mike Riva.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-10376584070872060512012-04-04T09:30:00.000-07:002012-04-04T09:30:44.037-07:00Avengers interview on Comic Book MovieI got interviewed about the design of the new MK7 suit for Avengers. You can check out the interview <a href="http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JakeLester/news/?a=55630" target="_blank">HERE</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5847910697255566499.post-77334303875504042352011-08-01T12:58:00.000-07:002011-08-01T13:10:38.121-07:00Cowboys & Aliens<span style="font-family:arial;">Cowboys and Aliens opened this weekend to somewhat disappointing box office, at least as far as I'm concerned - I personally thought it was great. Strong character work and acting, great dialog and lots of fun. Jon Favreau keeps pulling it off, and if anyone could have made a stronger film given the basic premise promised by the title, I don't know who. Let's face it, it could have been the summer's biggest joke. Instead, the material was taken seriously and treated lovingly, and we got a fine film I'm proud to have contributed to.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">So congratulations to Jon, writers Alex Kurtzman & Bob Orci and Production Designer Scott Chambliss for a great movie!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Anyway, I'll be posting some of my concept work for the alien "speeder" vehicle in the coming days. For now, here's the image that I was told caught Spielberg's eye and led to the speeder design as we see it in the film.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bxL0fUMqH2OIcqcSbNb6-pU56fkaTs_p301MappYzf_jsTX9Nqh4xOQBd8qlDFGTAUiSE5Jovafk_fggUeKMTpazyX0SOGHRZ13ncsAHlqTSFQMd6dlej8ZxmXEW_z1ohZtNpc_bAoM/s1600/SpeederConceptWeb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bxL0fUMqH2OIcqcSbNb6-pU56fkaTs_p301MappYzf_jsTX9Nqh4xOQBd8qlDFGTAUiSE5Jovafk_fggUeKMTpazyX0SOGHRZ13ncsAHlqTSFQMd6dlej8ZxmXEW_z1ohZtNpc_bAoM/s320/SpeederConceptWeb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635981658939297938" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9