Rise of the Argonauts Concept Post!

[mellowsmoothe]

Hello all,
It's been a long time since I have posted but now, hopefully, you can see why. Here is a collection of art I did for the newly released Rise of the Argonauts video game. There is more on my site for your viewing pleasure. Most of this stuff is over a year old but I thought I would post it anyway. There are a 3 or 4 pieces that have my former co-worker's (Mike Kime) great character models in them. Let me know what you think... and enjoy! :sungod:


http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/3627/0002if9.jpg (http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0002if9.jpg)
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/7968/0004kf0.jpg (http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0004kf0.jpg)
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7783/0005hf6.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0005hf6.jpg)
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/7524/0006ga6.jpg (http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0006ga6.jpg)
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/9310/0010ll0.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0010ll0.jpg)
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5232/0011gj7.jpg (http://img399.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0011gj7.jpg)
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/8095/0013fx3.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0013fx3.jpg)
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/8412/0015su2.jpg (http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0015su2.jpg)
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/1866/0019dd0.jpg (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0019dd0.jpg)
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/8516/0020vh8.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0020vh8.jpg)
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/6822/0021uy4.jpg (http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0021uy4.jpg)
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/1600/0024xm8.jpg (http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0024xm8.jpg)
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/3865/0025wo7.jpg (http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0025wo7.jpg)
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/820/0026sk1.jpg (http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0026sk1.jpg)
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/142/0027ch6.jpg (http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0027ch6.jpg)
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5959/0028aj2.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0028aj2.jpg)
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/7277/0032en6.jpg (http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0032en6.jpg)
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5540/0033iy6.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0033iy6.jpg)
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/24/0037df4.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0037df4.jpg)
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/8585/0038ey9.jpg (http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0038ey9.jpg)
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/3351/0040dq7.jpg (http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0040dq7.jpg)
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/5931/0041ul5.jpg (http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0041ul5.jpg)
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4123/0042ry6.jpg (http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0042ry6.jpg)
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7204/0043jl9.jpg (http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0043jl9.jpg)
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5791/0044jo5.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0044jo5.jpg)
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/9629/0047is1.jpg (http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0047is1.jpg)
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/7622/0049dy0.jpg (http://img248.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0049dy0.jpg)
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/8472/0052qv6.jpg (http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0052qv6.jpg)
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/3128/0055ss4.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0055ss4.jpg)
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/8431/0056az4.jpg (http://img71.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0056az4.jpg)

[Natzuur-JK]

What can I say, real cool! The circular plaza and the creature concepts are my fav! only thing that bothers me is the stance of the archer. Awesome awesome awesome.. did i mention.. awesome? 5 stars!!!:mod:

[CIRE]

great work Eric! So i guess this means I can post my stuff now? Congrats on the game shipping. Finally!!

[lewiston]

great conceptwork! It seems you got it well under control..

[MoonVisionStudio]

WOW! Excellent work, Congrats!

[dkounios]

kick ass stuff man!

[skorpi]

Fantastic work

[harachte]

sweet stuff!!

[Aerius]

Wonderful work! The game itself looks great and I can see why, thanks for sharing

[mellowsmoothe]

Thanks guys for the compliments

Hey CIRE we need to get lunch man! Thanks!

To go into a bit more detail, for anyone who care, I designed most of the main characters (except Hercules) and all of the enemies. The villagers and random city folk were designed by my former co-worker Hao. Obviously some environments got tossed in there too. I look back at this stuff and see lots of anatomical mistakes and things I could have done better with the environments. Glad you seem to enjoy them anyhow. :P Here are a few more...

See if you can find Pelias' head! My bad :(

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/8480/0031eh9.jpg (http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0031eh9.jpg)
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/240/0007jl1.jpg (http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0007jl1.jpg)
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/6435/0040qo7.jpg (http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0040qo7.jpg)

[xchosun1x]

nice work Eric...i'll post up my line of work up soon!

[AndyParkArt]

Hey Eric! Great to see that you're finally able to post up these images. They all look so awesome! Great job and congrats on the game. We should do lunch sometime.

[Mandryk]

What a great dump of work! Thanks for sharing these with us. This title seems to be really under the radar marketing-wise...but I'm getting excited to try it just by looking at this stuff.

[matt0917]

Great idea! and work!

[Murgen]

fantastic work here, the metal armor really blows my mind.

[Dizon]

Nice work! Reminds me a bit of GOW, but awesome nonetheless.

[mellowsmoothe]

Thanks guys for the comliments.

Andy - Thanks man. Yeah let's schedule a lunch soon! I just saw your posts and they are always phenomenal, what can I say.

Mandryk - Hey I just wanted to let you know your stuff kicks ass man. I set your image up (with the dude crossing the "tree bridge" in the jungle) as my background. Feel free to message me. Your praise is well taken.

Murgen - To be honest I love how Justin Sweet does his metal so I tried to figure it out and make it my own. Thanks!

James - your just a weenie! j/k lol... post man, post!

Dizon - Hey, GOW is a great game with great artwork ( Andy ;) ) so I will take that as a compliment. Thank you!

I have a few more to post... probably tomorrow night, so if your interested be on the look out.

[xHUNTERx]

Nice stuff Eric, I've been hearing about the great work you did for this project. Now after seeing it i'm still amazed by the awesome quality in all of them.

[sandeepbarot]

this is somthing realy out of the box thinking. Great Work. Thanks for posting your work on conceptart. awesome

[Kuidf^!]

some sweet stuff here great job

[rv_el]

Awesome!! Great to see you got a ton of work up. Really cool you have Odysseus in there as well. Post up Pan!

Great work man!


P.S Boar still kicks soo much ass.

[Me,Myself & Me again]

Awesome work dude.
Any inspirations from god of war?
Amazing look forward to seeing more of your stuff from now on :D

[Brittons]

Awsome Eric. All this coming from the guy who spent two years throwing little foam balls at my head and non-stop freak banter. Truly "Badder" than most. You're really kicking ass with this stuff.

Britt

[einhender]

Awesome stuff! your character design is really cool. Medusa is sick!
Thank you for sharing! Congrats on your game also.

Cecil

[Murgen]

wow, just looked at justin's work (i hadn't seen it before) it is excellent too. I see how you took inspiration from it, but you have really given your armor a heightened finish and taken it in your own direction.

very inspiring, both of you.

[smokenmirrors]

bad ass work! love the armor! :)

[mellowsmoothe]

Hey guys thanks again for the compliments.

Britton - Ha ha... good to hear from you man! I hope the cold weather is treating you ok. Must have polar bears walking in the streets by now. Yeah I wish I had the patience to go back and touch up this stuff but I'm trying to not look back. Look forward to seeing you on here again.

Me, Myself and Me Again - I will admit that one can't help but be inspired by GOW for many reasons, not just the art. Great games/ movies/ visuals are mean to do just that. That being said, as we made the game we noticed many similaries that we had to GOW 2. They were purely coincedental. I do mean that too, because we liked what they were doing but we were really trying to acknowledge that and go in our own direction. I think we did ok, but this feat isn't easy just because people have reinvented Greek Mythology many, many times. I hope you enjoyed what we did!

Here are a couple more, fairly rough images. The spider is my own personal creation that I am still working on, but it's at a decent stage. I'll post the final version too. Enjoy!



http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1902/argothumbs27copytw0.jpg (http://img341.imageshack.us/my.php?image=argothumbs27copytw0.jpg)
http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/4201/bugcopywx1.jpg (http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bugcopywx1.jpg)

[WickedEdges]

Phenomenal work! I really love everything. Your enviros and characters are great! Where did you go to school if you don't mind my asking?

[mellowsmoothe]

I went the Art Institute in Orange County (California). The school is eh... but luckily we had a few good teachers.

[Giorge]

Great concepts dude , to bad that most of the concepts did not make it trough they were nice , very nice , specially the dude with the bow , i think he wold been a great character ,

cheers

G

[mellowsmoothe]

He he... funny you should say that. I was really pushing for him. He was going to be Odysseus, another argonaut that could help you fight.

[JYun]

Great work Eric! Your characters are awesome! It was nice meeting you with James and Lim, let's do lunch again...

Justin

[mellowsmoothe]

Since everyone on the thread is talking about doing lunch we all should just meet together one day and have a big concept artist lunch! It sounds lame but it will be fun. :P

[Destinatus]

Man, you've really been holdin' out with this stuff, must be good to finally show it. I really like the attention to detail on your characters. Keep up the amazing work! 5 stars from me

[sandeepbarot]

hats off!

[(M) Artist]

really cool work !!!!

Keep uo the awesome work, man