Video game vehicles (now, even larger download)

[Scott Robertson]

Here are some of the video game vehicles I did last year with direction from the talented Mr. Olds. They are all drawn the old fashioned way and then rendered in Photoshop as fast as I can do them.

Hope you enjoy.

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/ab_front.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/ab_rear.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/ab_side.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/arctic_boss.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/high_pov_line.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/high_pov.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/door_pov_line.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/door_pov.jpg

[Scott Robertson]

more....

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/gunship_rear.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/gunship_1.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/mad_bomber_2.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/mad_bomber_1.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/sc2.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/sc.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/frost_bike.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/jet_ski.jpg

[Scott Robertson]

more....

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/rb_front.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/rb_rear.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/rb.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/HC_rear.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/HC_front.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/wave_cutter.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/us_boss_rear.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/us_boss.jpg

[Scott Robertson]

a few more....

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_2.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_3.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_4.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_5.jpg

[thomasaurus]

Feels like christmas and birthday rolled into one!

These are simply amazing, Scott.

[Sammy]

You son of a bitch!

[Killer Napkins]

damn nigga!! u made me shit my pants!! (as i was previously warned would happen)... this stuff is so totalty amazing!!! everything looks so perfect and ur helicopters are like .. .i cant describe it but cool... POST MORE !!! :D

[Rockman]

Hell yeah we enjoy, those are incredible!! How long did all of those take??:eek:

[Steeldolphin]

:eek:

Beautiful.

[Ant4d]

WOW!

[Scott Robertson]

Thanks Guys.

I worked on this project off and on as needed for about a year. Each vehicle design and rendering went very fast. Usually I had one day to do a bunch of design directions, I would show them, get feedback and make revisions and final front 3/4 and rear 3/4 line drawings for about 1/2 day. Final color renderings usually ran about 4 to 6 hours each. The car interior view through the open door was the most time consuming rendering at about 8 to 10 hours or so.

[cobaltx]

i really love your work....it's great

:beer:

[DragonGX]

Please tell me this is the type of stuff in your book..

Any news on an ETA for the book?

[Deth Jester]

What a great day this has been.. THis is the perfect icing to the cake.

Thanks for sharing Scott... I love how you render the water and the reflections..

Just great.. you really are a master of perspective! or at least 1 step away.. *always room for improvement right?*

I love your title.. "legendary Hero" heheh suits well for this.. :)

[I.was.ink]

Wow! These are fantastic. I can't wait to take a class with you in my upper term. I'm a first term noob, right now and I'm lovin it.I see you walking around at school, and I always want to say hello but I say, "naw he's probably too busy".

Next time when you see some random young guy walk up to you and say "hi its Iwasink from ca." You'll know who I'm talking about.

Do you happen to have any more you can share?

Oskar

[Scott Robertson]

cobaltx,
Thanks.

DragonGX,
Yeah, this is exactly the type of stuff I've been working on for the book. Hope to wrap it up by year end.

Deth Jester,
Thanks. I'm not sure where that title came from? Bit scary if you ask me.

I.was.ink,
Yeah, say hello. Never to busy to say at least hello back. I have quite few more sketches and several more color pieces I can post, I'll scare them up by week's end.

[chukw]

Great to see these! Love the ekronoplani and the wingtip guns on the transports- cruel!

[DragonGX]

Originally posted by Scott Robertson

DragonGX,
Yeah, this is exactly the type of stuff I've been working on for the book. Hope to wrap it up by year end.


Very cool, I cant wait!

[keyth]

horrible:p













jesus!!!!!!!!!

[tharmine]

WONDERFULL:bow:

I prefer the sketch one but some render images are marvelous!!!

[Feng]

WOW....

seeing them again here just reminds me how good your drawing and design skillz are.....

i'm gonna go cry now...j/k

thanks for posting....great inspiration for all....

-feng

ps. what does that Artic Boss vehcile do? what is it carrying? I love the details on that cargo thing....

[Kortez]

:eek: Absolutely amazing!!

[saturnfive]

Beautiful work Scott. heh- I knew we were in for a treat as soon as I saw the words 'scott robertson' and 'big download' on the same thread title :)

Thanks a lot for sharing these. Quick..get the gold stars up!

[Triton]

Flawless! :eek:

[LEN]

ok every thread needs a jerk and I'll be it because this has been on my mind for awile,:

Mr. robertson I am dying to buy your "how to draw and render vehicles of your own design book" , how much longer do us aspiring farm boy gots ta wait. We like your skills and want to learn every thing we can from you but being stuck in hillbilly vill we don't have the oportunity to learn from you directly - that and no one likes having cows laugh at them for lack of skill.

Ok, now I'm just being silly, regaurdless I'm a big fan and I will be buying your book as soon as it comes out, I just don't know when that will be- till then I will just study your work like an obsesive cumpulsive hillbilly.


Thanks for your thread.

[Atmospheria]

Hey people!! I heard that Scott is a Robot!! :D
Man!! How can you work this much!! :confused:
Amazing stuff.!!!

[jilted_one]

hey man they are totally cool, i like the sketches alot but the rendered just blow me away, if they ever make it into 3d i would consider it early christmas. Cool job dude.:chug:

[Fisa]

very nice. i was going to list which was my favorite but there are several i really like. the first rendering of the interceptor interior is amazing. the way you pulled of the difference in materials and that lighting in the orb is really neat. i like several of the designs on the vehicles but i find the airboat battle cruiser one the best. its a good take on that kind of vehicle. i also love the render on the bronze boat just because :)

very inspirational in all! i had a few roomies that took classes with you on your return from the Switzerland campus. i can see why i always heard good things about your in class tutorials.

[Mr_Joshua]

WOW...

[Highfive]

Oh man, these are all awe-inspiring! How do you understand how the light reflects off all these curves? Does it just come from experience? Thanks very much for posting these!

When were these produced? Any hints on when the game will be released? Eeek, a few too many questions maybe...

[behemot5]

:eek: :xx:

[Scott Robertson]

Thanks Guys.

Feng,
That is a nuclear reactor of some type. I do not want to give away what it does in the story. The arctic vehicle is just the transporter fashioned after the NASA crawler.

LEN,
I'm doing what I can, trust me. It is hard to find the time when I still have find a way to the rent!

Atmospheria,
I wish, then LEN would happy because my book would already be done by now!

Highfive,
Regarding reflections, lighting etc....it comes from long hours of observation and hundreds of students asking me to explain how that stuff works, in turn forcing me to go figure it out. The game has been announced and I was just given the okay to show this work. It comes out very soon I believe. I did most of these last year.

Here are a few more.....

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/3.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/rear_notes.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/hc4.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/hc_3.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/sc_final_rear.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/sc_1.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/ship_2.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/us_boss_1.jpg

[Scott Robertson]

And a few more.....

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/int_10.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/wave_cutter_1.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/wave_cutter_2.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/wv_front_color.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/wv_rear_color.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_16.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_16_color.jpg

[Scott Robertson]

And lastly, a few more.....

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_12.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_13.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_17.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/VTOL.2.rear.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_14.rev.2.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/vtol_18_rev.2.jpg

http://www.drawthrough.com/ftp/VTOL.20.jpg

[Diego]

Scott
I love every post you do, they´re so full of life. And your renderings blows my mind.

Keep posting. It´s great for all

[Bomba]

Damn, your rendering skills are crazy! At first, I thought most of the painting were 3d models. Awesome.
Inspired and frightened.
-J-

[Sammy]

Brain.....Fuckin'....Anurism

[strych9ine]

Sweet Holy Shit... I think I was just dazzled retarded.

[cucaracha]

Dear Mr. Roberston,

a thing that makes me always wonder about your images: How long does it take to make one of those sketches by your "perspektive technique"? It looks very work intensive, I have tried it once myself (and .. kinda failed).

(And this also goes out to you other fellows): Do you think you can achieve such a "perspective correctness" just by a perfect feeling for space and perspective, or is this (hard to find the right words) "calculating", "measuring" technique superior?

Thank you anyways for sharing your outstanding work.

cu

[jkior]

:eek:

Would you recommend any books on perspective drafting, they way you do it? The tutorials on your site are super helpful, but I'm hoping for precise transposition of distances between planes in perspective - and I can't seem to find anything on it anywhere on the net.

Thanks!

~jkior

[Jaku]

What can i say?
Brilliant render
Amazing drawing

Another book to buy. You guys gonna kill me.

Again, amazing.

Thanks for sharing.

[DragonGX]

jkior - he is coming out with a book by the end of the year (hopefully!)

[3DZealot]

Me thinks someone is working on a new Spy-Hunter game...

Lovely work as usual Scott. When are you going to join Gnomon like Feng? Make us some training DVDs. We really want to give you our money...

-3DZ

:D

[scumble fish]

That Interceptor interior is so professional. You have a knack for all things technical. I like that first hover craft environment quite a bit too.

[davi]

Very fantastic work and we are honored at ca to have you post all these concepts.

These really show how hard of a worker you are, fantastic job.


i'm guessing these are for spy hunter because of the car pick up. very well done.

I think out of all of the designs i'm most fascinated with heliocopter that is a bomber.

koudos to you mr robertson.

[morbidhumor]

That is some serious talent there.

[Yaseck]

Scott: this f***g amazing.

I'm going to cry now.

[Glenn K]

Amazing display of work Scott.

I have visited your website many times. It has been a great place to go and learn. Thanks for sharing these concepts with us.

[jkior]

Thanks for leaving in so much of your layout lines (if that's what they're called) in - very inspiring for me to see some of how you work.

Originally posted by DragonGX
jkior - he is coming out with a book by the end of the year (hopefully!)

Yeah, I know, I just didn't want to wait that long. There don't seem to be any recommended perspective books in the book threads, either. :(

[Marko Djurdjevic]

Scott,

all these concepts are amazing and really make my heart stop. It's so beautiful getting to see these all in one thread. Every concept is great, but the "arctic boss" appeals with his bulkiness the most to me.

Great!

Marko

[Ra Havok]

I don't reply a lot (I'm a lurker) , but I'm happy to make an exception for these GORGEOUS concepts.


Masterful.

[Famboozled]

Beautiful absolutely beautiful...sigh...man that is some beautiful work...beautiful..youre a lucky man to have this as your occupation and have the talent to do work like this.

[reeves]

At the risk of sounding homosexual [not that there anything wrong with homosexuals], I love you man.

Great work...absolutly great to see soo much work done by the great Scott Robertson. Nothing short of breath taking.

Much love man. Much respect.

[Loga4]

Awesome,this is great jop,Scott!
It`s joy to look at your work!
Congrats!


:chug:

[kabuki]

im a huge fan.

amazing stuff.

seriously.

i wish you well and hope you get that money to pay rent.

:) i hope we ALL get that rent money :)

seriously amazing work.

ok enough gushing.

[Cryo]

Call me blind but I could not find what game this is for in the thread, please tell...

[Scott Robertson]

Thanks guys,

Glad you liked them. I had fun working on these. They had to be done very fast and that always makes things a bit tougher. You also guessed the game correctly, Spy Hunter. I was just given the ok to show this work, I glad you enjoyed seeing the line drawings, that is probably the most enjoyable part of the process for me. The renderings were done really fast and straight forward. If they did not have the line drawings floating on top of each one they would fall apart. I have a few more left I will post later.

[the good war]

i noticed that you sometimes use textures instead of drawing the surrounding area would you say that you have a collection of scenic photos on your computer to put in place of the background or just to reference from?

[Nadim]

:eek: :eek:
:eek:
:eek:
:eek:

[LEN]

Scott,

I love you, man. Now I'm going to print out your rendering and study them like a wombat in heat. I love your posts and your willingness to teach us mere mortals. Can't wait to see more.

[Oblio]

ups... he did it again :bow:

Oblio

[BluePencilArtist]

:bow: :bow: :bow: :thumb:
no comments...

Great job!! I like that boat cutter.....
:chug:

[RAMÓN]

Man your stuff is unreal! Amazing.

[Scott Robertson]

Thanks guys.

the good war,
Yeah with this type of rendering there is no time to paint every background like I would prefer to do so sometimes I just grab a photo and paint over the top of it. Obviously the big red hauler sky and snowmobile are done like that. The big cargo plane and most of the others on the other hand are all painted. You do what you can when you only have half a day to do one of these start to finish. Always need to remember these are not the end product meaning, their purpose is to communicate design, color and materials of each object for the client and the modelers. Beyond that they have no use. There are no rules to creating imagery that communicates your design to others, and it is crucial if you work for yourself that you can do these things fast.

[Sammy]

:eek: I'm curiouse as to why this went from 5 stars down to 4.. is someone playing a joke?

it's clearly worth more than 5 stars.

There are no rules to creating imagery that communicates your design to others

I hear that! .. uhhh.. but nice job communicating them designs... Crystal Clear!

[al-x]

If there's a God it must be Mr. Robertson...

Realised, that I had question to...

What size are the original drawings?

[chao]

???? who made this thread a 4 stars???:mad: hi, mr robertson your works always inspires me.. thank you so much for sharing these:chug:

[Kress]

Mr. Robertson - I've kept myself from posting on this magnificent thread but you said something that I must reply to. I was using using your thread as an example of top-notch work that is done quickly and with a sure hand. Then low and behold, I read your reply about getting these done as quickly as possible and that their sole purpose is to communicate an idea.
I think this is a great reminder for all of us that, for concept art mostly, we must be practicing many things but also to get drawings/paintings done *quickly*. I personally think that truly succesful concept art is not only technically deft and imginanative, but that it is done with a sure and fast hand.
Just wanted to thank you for the poignant reminder and I hope everyone else takes it into consideration as much as I have.
I think everyone will benefit to remember that speed is a part of our skillset, and to realize this changes the way we have to learn certain things.
Great drawings - a couple of those renders look, well, rendered hehe, as in a 3d program...
Kudos.

[the good war]

thanks scott
if it is not too much to ask i always have a problem with finding the right saturation level whenever i am creating a scene... i understand explaining the sat. levels for objects would be a lengthy process so i'll just ask; is keeping track of the saturation of objects more intuitive for you or do you set up a relationship of direct porportionality between value and saturation after you have decided the base color?
thanks again

o yeah i am considering appling to the art center ... few teachers seem to have the ability you posess. great work

[amphex]

OMG...i am so incredibly happy I just got a cable modem.
This is the best day of my life.
!!!!

[MrSmith]

Originally posted by Sammy
You son of a bitch!

i concur, you are a bastard! awesome drawings

[Chromo48]

Heh, not bad, keep practicing, you'll get there someday. hehehe ;)

Awesome, amazing work man!

Is there a reason for the title of the game not being mentioned? I didn't see it once in the entire thread. It's obvious which game this is though. And it's definitely a classic.

[character]

jawdropping stuff. amazing renders. i dig the can the most and i love the US Boss. it reminds me of the c-130's i used to jump out of in the army =) can't wait to see more

[skvv]

<*pops a boner*

[Tomasis]

damn it just looks as 3D .. just amazing works of you. do you use 100 layers? :)