God of War Artbook Signing at Gallery Nucleus

Hello everyone! We are having "Artbook signing" at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra California next Saturday at 6pm. There will be Visual Development team - Concept artists from God of War 3 will be there. The game is finally out this week and it's been getting very positive reviews from both fans and the critics. It will be great opportunity for us to meet fans and talk about the game and stuff. So far 2 kinds of artbooks are out in the store- one is "Limited Edition Strategy guide from Bradygames" and the other one is small artbook came in with "Ultimate Edition" game package. See you there and thank you again so much for the support,



God-War-Limited-Strategy-Guide

God of war 3 Ultimate Edition

God of War 1 Concept

8 years ago. yeah....

Creatures

May 2009 Official Playstation Magazine Cover

San Pedro Refinery- Tutorial

Speed Painting after Work

Otis Class Demo "Vis Dev Thumbnail Sketches"

Otis Class Demo

This was done in class demo-for "Drawing and Painting for Illustrators" working straight from looking at statue photo reference. 20 mins. I always thought that basic painting process in photoshop can be explained in 2 methods. One is working from line sketch-which is working from some sort of line drawing-scanned resources, and the other way is to paint straight with PS brush, painting from dark-to light with opaque painting technique. This is one of trainning assignments that I found it very effective specially when students are not very familiar with PS interface.

Artshow in NOV

Upcoming art event/show that I am participating in..

METROPOLIS

2nd IP character design for concept class at Otis. This is my homework for this week..and students next week homework..

Slayer

Personal Sketch:Vritra (hindu dragon) was not a sufficient symbol of pure evil. Its longevity and ability to speech was what drove them to slay her..

Artshow at Liliya

With an impressive roster of talented faculty, recent graduates, and even current students from both the illustration and digital departments, this show of purely traditional work is sure to please. These artists, with a variety of backgrounds, experience, and methods of working, invite you to take a "Voyage" with them into the world they have created to delight and entertain.

We hope to see you there!

From Jessica Cooper


You are invited! More info to follow.. It's happening in Oct 17th. Cheers!

Cecil

Otis Week 1st Demo

So I am teaching a new class - Concept Design:Characters and Environments started last week. So I have pitched couple IP ideas to students and first one being cartoony/animation style characters. So I have come up with these guys as a group of main characters. I can't wait to see what students would come up with!!

CDA Demo-Elevation Drawing

So today was the last session of CDA class. I've met talented students, most of all, I am glad that I made a comeback to Pasadena. It felt good to be in touch with Artcenter students as well.
"Elevation Drawing" is what we call these architectural front facade concepts at Sony. Ken Feldman started to call it and I wanted to demonstrate how and why it needs to be done-students should include these drawings in their portfolio.

Ages of Sand / Short Film

Ages of Sand website

Short Film currently in Production-directed by Jonathan Sager. Visit the website link above, you can see the animatics and production stills. Currently seeking for a 3D character modeler who can create Cecil's creature design.

Ages of Sand is a short film that blends the worlds of animation and live-action to tell the tale of a young girl learning the value of water in a polluted world.

From one of previous posts

Well, as I re-visited this sketch from one of the early posts below, "Infamous" game sort of inpsired me, yes, it was an awesome game. Standing on the top of skyscapers without having fear of falling down, that alone, worth my time playing the game..

Random Sketch

CDA demo

Top image was done during the class and the bottom one is done afterwards.

Music

Hello, So I wanna share some of my favorite music with you here. I came across this music player that I can have some music tracks playing while you are on this page, I know it's a bit annoying specially the musics I choose are not really your taste, I might as well just talk about them-some of the songs here..it pretty much explain how sentimental my teenage life was back in the 80-90s.

1. Chicane "No ordinary morning" personally I like his mixing style a lot for its simplicity and the mellow nature of it. Unfortunately I haven't discover any of his new stuff after 2nd album. Beautiful song calms me down..

2. Pat Metheny (Offlamp)"Au Lait" Growing up in Korea when you are in high school can be truly overwhelming, to stay in the academic competition to fight for college spots, it's way too
much for a teenager who's got a huge question mark for everything in his forehead.. My hobby was nothing but collecting LPs(yeah LPs), the only time I can freely enjoy them is past midnight when I sit in my room and study for a Korean SAT test and stuff. Au Lait" is the song was on his "OFFLAMP" album-the shiny jewel, I usually put this track over and over and fell asleep with my headphone on.thinking yeah..another day... It's difficult for people here to understand how stressful life over there in Korea, things gotten so much better now but when I was growing up, we didn't have much fun AT ALL. No skateboard, no videogames or partying with girls. That's why I wanted to come to the states, after watching "Back to the future: I started to admire the lifestyle in the states. Straight 8 to 8 school with 2 bento boxes in your hand and well, study more when you come home. At least try to pretend. Sounds pretty pathetic? haha... well that made me thinking about going into the art field.. so it worked out for me..at least.
Personally I think Pat Metheny is a genius, how he challeges himself everytime and his band also tries to push themselves to take it to the next level. It's a mindblowing to see how they can be so accurate when they perform. So inspiring..

3.HSAS "A whiter shade of Pale"-formed by Neal Schon(Journey) and Sammy Hagar (Van Halen) for only one recording which was this album recorded all live. I particluarly love Neal Schon's guitar style, very sleak and flowy and sharp like a razor blade. Well, Procol Harum's original version is a timeless classic, however this version demonstrates how they got together just for the sake of music, having fun jammin..

4.New Trolls "Concerto Groos Per I New Trolls - 3. Tempo:Cadenza gosh,, this song is almost 40 years old. They were an italian band. Listening to it is like being on a time machine. There were a time when people made these seriously dramatic moody songs like it's the end of the world. Jimmy Hendrix and Doors was one culture, but over in Europe, these guys had string instruments to talk about Shakespeare. I love them..


5.David Gilmour -I wouldn't hesitate a second to say David Gilmour is my favorite guitarists of all time. His guitar sound paints constellation in my head. I listen to Pink Floyd just to listen to his guitar riffs and how he creates distortion sounds in such a wide range of notes. When I was going to artcenter, I saw PinkFloyd in Rose Bowl. I saw him rips the night sky with his guitar.:)

6.Camel "Stationary Traveller" Another british progressive rock band from the 80s, Andrew Latimer is such a talented musician, he plays all kinds of instruments, studio recording of this song sounds so much better.. His guitar in this song is so memorable, his guitar speaks and sings without words.

Lemon Tower

CDA In-Class Demo

God of War 3 E3 Demo

Demo Gameplay shown at 2009 E3Sony Press Conference.
Introduction by Jack Tratton (SCEA President) followed By
Stig Assmussen (Game Director) and Todd Papy (Lead Designer)

Watch full 720p size clip from Youtube.

CDA In-class demo

Gun Tower

New Class

Thanks to Jung Ho Park for having me co-teach "Environment Design" class at Kevin Chen's Concept Design Academy. Unfortunately the class got full as soon as it got announced, I guess there was a waiting list already from James Paick's popular painting class. It's a 10 weeks course and I will be teaching by-weekly and I am very excited to go back to Pasadena area- it almost made me feel like I am going back to Artcenter. Since I graduated, for my entire career I end up staying at westside, away from San Bernando Valley and I think it's time for me to go back to where I started and hang out in lovely Pasadena. Hmm,, I miss those tree canopies..and tree smell.

Train Wreck- Tutorial

OtisDemo-Sphinx Challenge

Last Saturday IP class, We had a speed painting challenge session for about 40 mins. The topic was "Sphinx Concept" and the very top image was what I came up with during the class.
Then I spend little more time at home to bring it up to the bottom piece.The flying ship needs more love.. Thanks!

Hovercraft