a few paintings - design exercise

[Francis]

A few of the concept artist/art director types at Rockstar San Diego got together to do some extra-curricular design exercises based on some passages from different sci fi books. Let me know what you guys think.

http://www.teamgt.com/forum/creature.jpg
http://www.teamgt.com/forum/wraith01.jpg
http://www.teamgt.com/forum/BOTZ.jpg

[tyboogie]

damn dude this stuff looks great. The middle one really speaks to me, but i love the concept of the last one. The little guy on the bot. right is really cute. Could you elaborate on your design excercise--
did you guys sit around computers and do them together? could you summarize what was said/written that resulted in these pieces? Kick Ass work man keep posting!!!!!!!!!------ty

[seb]

your project sounds an awfully lot like my homework assignment from the last few weeks. did scott put you guys up to this ;)

you have a good sense for color and form. i think the bottom one is the most successful in many levels, especially story-telling.

[Loga4]

Welcome Francis,I got your site in my
favorites,you rock,and those 3 images are
awesome,thanks for sharing.
Success!

[Atmospheria]

These are reaaly cool francis...i'm watching you for a long time and you are a big inspiration for me. Please post more to conceptart.org forums!

[mushuhaha]

Great storytelling, use of color and movements. Love them all.

[cos]

Cool stuff Francis, painting style is gettin really good nowadays.

Really nice forms and strong lighting going on. Last pic is great, metals are very convincing!

[Francis]

Thanks for the comments!

tyboogie - no, we didn't work together. The idea was to see how many different interpretations of the same text we could get, so we didn't look at each other's stuff until the end.

seb - hehe as a matter of fact this is the same exercise he has you guys do, but Steven Olds had us put a spin on it, which was to combine three elements (environment, transportation, characters) into one image. I think he is supposed to come visit our studio sometime this week. Thx, glad you liked how they came out. How about you? Can you post yours?

loga4 - wow thanks! :D

atmospheria - thank you, I'm glad. I will try to post more, but I have a short attention span when it comes to forums...

mushuhaha - thank you

cos - Thank you - damn dude, your stuff has gotten pretty rock solid lately. I remember giving you a tip or two way back in the day, but I don't think I gots anything to say to you now! :thumbsup:

[davi]

Nice to see you again Sir Francis. Your last piece is amazing, the pallet is beautiful and it tells a wonderful story.

I really think you could add a bit more to the background of the second piece, it feels really hallow and the foreground doesn't coalesce into the background much.

Keep up the good work :)