www.massiveblack.com is NOW LIVE!

[Jason Manley]

Hey all,

My team and I worked very hard and long to bring a new studio to being. Many sleepless nights of creating, organizing, brainstorming and building has finally led to this moment. We are proud to announce Massive Black Inc.


www.massiveblack.com




Please feel free to pay us a visit. I guarantee that you will enjoy what you find. I am sure you have seen much of what we have to show. But what we have to show will come as a surprise to you.

If you are bored and want to see some cool stuff...check us out. There has got to be at least one thing that will inspire you inside.

Cheers,



Jason Manley
President
www.massiveblack.com

http://www.conceptart.org/massive/massive_black.jpg

[geoffd]

thank you. i've been checking this site for sometime now wondering when it's going to go live. it's has and i am impressed. never before have i witnessed your other art, just what i have seen here, and i must say... WOW :eek: good luck with this new venture, i'm sure it will be a success. i'll be checking this site out for updates and inspiration. nice one.


love the resivore dogs reference too.... mr.green

[chukw]

So mighty it crashed my Mac! ;) Some mighty fine stuff, and the site is nice an' easy. Congrats!

[Tedsuo]

Pretty damn awesome. Good luck with your venture. Is your eventual goal to create your own games in house?

[Anthony]

Congrats man! You guys have put together a top notch studio, and it really shines through on the website. Nice work. :)

[gasmask]

That site/studio you guys got going is wonderful (Bookmarks) man i have a new dream to my many others, one day work for your studio, awesome stuff there.

[Bombesei]

Your friend Carl Dobsky spilled the beans on your new company to me over the summer when I met him. This has been an exciting wait in seeing what was coming of all your work in getting Massive Black up and running. Congratulations to you and all the people working there. Rock on.


-Nick

[stebie]

thats some one powerful chicken image. i love it~

[I.was.ink]

That is one of the sickest sites I've seen in a while. Great stuff Jason and crew, I see you're Mr. Green. Does Mr. pink have a website? I'd like to check out his stuff.

It's cool to see that Mr. Orange(Marko) is a part of your team. :thumbsup:

[Avetice]

nice, can't wait to see what game titles are using you guys. I'm definately gonna look this studio up when I'm graduating! Or I could always intern :D

[Jaku]

Good luck!
So much talent in just one company, that can´t be good. All excesses are bad :D

[Oblio]

Hire me - i'll bring balance to the force :D

Oblio

[nardfrog]

Holy shit.


Jason, your site is awsome. Do you still have you other Job or is this your new work? The splach screen is the coolest thing ive seen in 3 months.

Kudos.

[mushuhaha]

omg, wonderful team!! top talents are bursting out from that place. congrats for the new studio, and I can't wait to see the projects you guys are involved in.


by the way, is mr. pink el coro?

yea, i agree, the chicken is awesome

[Jason Manley]

thanks for the kind words. we have a few things in the pipeline now that will rise to the surface. It will be some time before we announce the project obviously.

im so sleepy. must rest.



j

[Joachim]

very nice site and a lot of nice work.
I'm curious, have you all quit your jobs and started this, or is this beside your other job, like alliance sort of ? ANyway, good luck with your new compay,I'm sure you will make great success.

[Jason Manley]

we are an S Corporation based in Austin Texas. we are made up of both full time and contract crew members.

thanks for the luck. It is hard work. Luck is always nice. Luck or not. it will do very well. as i said...lots of hard work....



j

[Theo]

ohh man that intro pic is heavily cool. Way to go man:)
Youll be drowning in clients.

congrats on gettin it all together!

-Theo

[Dan.v.D.]

hehe i was pretty surprised to see a game company sport stuff like that splash. then i saw that you´ve got nathan flood in. i won´t be surprised if the next additions will be like mullins, jens karlsson, and neville brody...

well i´m sure you guys got what it takes to become the undisputed nr.1

best luck from me!

edit: omg @ mr. orange :P

[antihero]

I barely start to realize what sort of people i sometimes "talk" to in this forum...
Some really impressing stuff in all areas that you cover. Best wishes!

antihero

PS: I especially like that "draco" stuff. It was the first DVD i bought and i watched the whole bonus stuff, including some scenes about how draco came to live... Mr. Blue is my hero!

[Dan Milligan]

J

The hard work shows*. All I can offer you is luck-but I don't think you need it.

*understatment

All the best
Dan

[deschamps]

Wow. This is exciting. Congratulations. So much top notch talent all in one place. Nice site design as well.

[bustabustu]

Your site takes a little to load. I like the layout how ever you could do the same thing using flash and add many more features.

Nice to finally put a face to some of the animations in LOTR 2 towers. Kick ass work man and keep up the good work. Did you guys also do work on Return of the king?

[Sam0s]

wTF????

you got nathan flood??
hot dang..i knew he was gettin back to art but never thought the deal was teaming up with mr.manley !
talent galore!

you've chosen yer knights well i must say, you wont be needing luck.

piice!

[DragonGX]

wow I never knew Manley had an RX7!

That websites design is awesome, I really like it.

I hope Quentin Tarantino doesnt mind you guys using the Reservior Dogs reference though!

[gekitsu]

wow. congratz jason!

i wish you guys a lot of success.

one note: the table holding the menu items spreads to 100% of the screen width instead of being aligned to the left.
right now, the background image is on the left side of screen while the menuitems are spread in even distance across the whole screen.
i'm using opera 7.21 and a screen res of 1600x1200.

[cucaracha]

ah, my new favourite site! And the splash is my desktop bg now! And you do this Reservoir Dog-thing! My Idols!

[strych9ine]

Looks like it's going to be huge... congrats and good lulck with it!

[Krail]

Its massive and black but is it a rooster or cock...or both?

either way great looking site, easy to navigate and obviously easy on the eyes.

Hope to see what you're working on. Wow its a scarey idea of all that talent working together. I'd loves to see you guys get a project and do everything from concept design for a game or movie and then go all the way to a toy line for it!

anyhow,

looks great.

[bRyaN]

Jason...all i have to say is bravo bro...

I'm glad the hard work you and your team put in is finally paying off..congratulations..

[Deth Jester]

looks like you have a great team together J.

Got some skillz on board! Can't wait to see what you guys put out!

peace

-mike

[Lono]

hey right on man.. cool to have you in austin..

that web page is killer.. stuff like that really gets people excited.. i cant wait to hear what you guys are cooking up.

if you are downtown we should grab lunch sometime,, or maby have some beers in the later hours..

-Lono

[Red_Rook]

obscene amounts of talent. :eek:
Good luck, but as somebody else said, you dont need it. :)

[hatala]

thanks bustabustu.

/me tips his hat

[viag]

whoa impressive and incredible art inside !! :eek:

[Robolus]

What a awesome site, so much talent in one place. There is no need to whish you luck for the future, because I´m sure that massiveblack will be extremly succesfull. I´m so excited because I´m so happy that Mr. Orange :D is part of your team. Best wishes! :chug:

[bustabustu]

Originally posted by hatala
thanks bustabustu.

/me tips his hat

Hey hatala, can I write you a private message or e-mail about a school issue?

[MindCandyMan]

Awesome Jason...definitely very very inspiring. It's a big risk and a lot of work to go out on your own like this...I commend you for doing it...it's something we all want but few of us go after it...awesome.

In 2 - 3 years I will have finished at my atelier...my wife said she wants us to move back to Texas after I am done there as well. I'm sure when I get to Texas I will see a massive company with many employees pumping out some sweet games. Keep it up man.

[winjer]

Whos Mr. White? I wanna be his slave. I could live in the corner of the studio and have my little sketch book to take notes and draw.

[Loga4]

Best of luck,JAson!
Great site!

[davi]

i wanna be mr. fantastic.

hook it up jason

[Stonepilot]

Best of luck to you.May a train of success run you over and an anvil of of happiness land on you. Hope you won't be to bussy to visit us.

[Jason Manley]

thanks everyone...it is so much hard work starting a studio...it takes an open mind and a lot of learning...and it takes willingness to be up all hours all times in the beginning....but finally being able to show a few of our things is very fulfilling. we have a lot more great stuff to put up. keep your eyes peeled this week.


back to work for me....thanks again for all the support.


jason

[Jason Manley]

Originally posted by davi
i wanna be mr. fantastic.

hook it up jason


DONE!!


HAHAH!

[Kortez]

I could post countless OMG! OMG! but instead I'm just going to say; That site has some of the most mindblowing art i've seen on the internet. With the all the talent you have over at Massive Black I expect that you will set new standards for the gaming/film industry.

and since we're wishing for titles, I'd like to be "Mr. Will get an internship at MassiveBlack in 5 years" :D



:chug:

[behemot5]

wonderfull

[benzo]

Lookin good and exciting Jason! Heh- thats a really nice cock logo:D
-benzero

[mtw]

Hopefully you guys can bring some good artistic flare to games. I really haven't felt like playing any recently.

[Jason Manley]

thanks!

we are sure gonna try to do a good job. Ive worked with some great teams...the best being at black isle with justin sweet and puddnhead and andrew jones and john dickenson and vance kovacs and pete meihuizen and aaron brown....that was a strong group...though we had some..uhm...weak links...ie untrained people who were hired because they knew someone there etc...we dont have any weak links at massive black..every artist is an ace. i feel very fortunate. we are also very good friends.

The response has been very good. We are already in talks with studios regarding game titles and feature film fx..as well as our in house project. The kind words and support really help to keep us going in getting this company launched. Thank you all.


jason manley

[N D Hill]

This is incredable! One look at the website at the great wealth of incredable artwork gave me goosebumps! You guys are a force to be reconed with! I think you're right too in your mission statement. Not just about videogames needing a higher level of artistic merrit but popular media as a whole. It's good to see firms being developed that deal exclusively in the creative process. Artistic definitions of fineart and popular art need to be blured more. Art is art and whether the intentions behind it are commercial or private, it's still an expression in which a message, emotion or idea is conveyed. Companies like this with ties to the entertainment and publishing industries have a lot of influence when it comes to subtly including the general public and demographics who might consider themselves alienated from the so called "fine arts." It's great to see so many avenues for creativity being opened up. This is reassuring as it let's me know that there are places for people studying paths in art as I am and that when I graduate and have my degree in three years, industries could be more receptive than they are now. The result, I believe is a culture that can appreciate art more than they even know. In short, more power to ya!

-Noel

[Jorn]

first word : impressive
second&third word : good luck!

^^

[jester]

Oh dear, it will take ages to view it all... :(

:D :D :D

Congratulations!

Here's a bunch of flowers for your biz!
:flower: :flower: :flower:

Jester

[Erik]

Congratulations Jason!

I hope (and expect) you'll be doing well!

Erik

[steve kim]

awesome site, i'd just suggest one thing,

in the copy when you cite the stuff u've worked on... sounds awesome till you hit 'BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY' and 'CATS AND DOGS'.

ack!

i think the big names listed are um, big enough and don't need the help of bill and ted :)

[Jason Manley]

we think its funny that petey worked on bill and teds....come on man...BILL AND TEDS KICK ASS! hahahahahah....yikes is right...were not ashamed of the projects our boys have created for.

the cat animation of hatalas at the end of the film section clips is tight as hell. Not many animators that can do that subtlety.


j

[steve kim]

no doubt it's great work, it just seems very out of context in a site that is so dark and brooding, mr green. some how inappropriate, hehe :)

but whatever floats ya! great stuff, maybe some day i will look for employment when i get better and finish school (whichever comes first)

[Jason Manley]

well we dont only do dark stuff....thats all it comes down to.


j

[Hexal]

Amazing work! good stuff jason and others.

Maybe in five years i can have a job?!?!.......:D
:chug:

[bRyaN]

IN terms of a portfolio what would you guys like to see....

Because i have an awesome idea that would tie into the workshop...you fellas wanna hold

It has to do with a student showing excellent skill during the workshop gets the opportunity to work with your company as a intern or something like that...

[NOOSE]

Well.. so... you went and took the cream of the industry and made a company!...well played Jason Manley, well played...I shall then collect the not so good and the plain terrible left over artists that are not good enough to be in your company, and we will form our own studio!! we will call our selves "Insignificant White" and we will flood the industry with the so so the ho hum, the best of borrowed works, and over filtered lense flared vertions of work we find on concept.org!.
...OH ya...I know your shakeing now!..we will hire fraudulant masterminds as company presidents by the name of Chris R and Sam B and so forth to show the fastest ways to ripp of the concept world,

We will maintain a mysterious image with code names for all of us involved(yes thats right already ripped you), names like MR. no contrast, Mr. cant draw feet, Mr. no its not clipped from a photo, and MR. Its clearly Spinefingers arm attached to another borrowed body that I reversed the colors on.

Of course thats all when I find time between eating my own danddruff...


the obove was a joke...
I totaly dig every aspect of your massive project, and for see
imminent success! :) :chug:

If you need a spineless lackey/boot lick or just someone get your coffee and take your verbal abuse please choose me!...please :)

[Fisa]

aside from the art ... very nice layout on the site itself. it still give you a sense of the fundamentals of fine art. i like :)

[Smeagol71]

Adding my praise to the huge pile...and well deserved. Nice site. You guys have plenty of reason to be proud. Thanks for sharing it with us. Inspirational!

[NaTe J]

I would like nothing more than to work for your company. Too bad im not anywhere near top notch. :(

[geoffd]

can i be mr. pink?

:eek:

[davi]

haha nice jason, now i look like more of an arrogant cock

[neble]

Hiya Jason

I work in Austin too, at Retro. I'm glad Massive Black is working out. It's good proof that things are starting to pick back up in Austin. From what I saw on your site, there's some good talent joining together.

I'm interested to see what your future work is. I'm sure it'll be good.

Elb

[liquidwerx]

Nicely done. :)


~M~

[Dan.v.D.]

now live????

seriously, whatever´s up with that, i don´t wanna hear that mb is already history! :confused:

[Schlo-mo]

I wonder that aswell, havent heard anything about it for a while.

[Jason Manley]

naah..we are moving to a new host...should be up tomorrow.


j

[bRyaN]

With that much raw talent lined up, i don't think these guys are goin anywhere....

[empty]

all i get when i go to massiveblack.com is "actadivina technologies"

[Killer Napkins]

me too some webhosting thing