Buggin’ Out!

This piece was something I’ve been wanting to try out. The idea is personal. I worked on my Jeep all weekend…it’s something I’ve had for years. I got it at the same time as I got my dog who passed on last spring. Lately I’ve had the most vivid dreams of him. After tearing my knuckles apart under the hood of my beater all weekend, my dreams were filled with nostalgic rides with my boy through the old trails in Southern CA we used to bump around on. He was a great sport!

The other side of this piece was to try to integrate my 3D models with an illustration. I’ve been modeling in 3D apps for over a dozen years now. So I took a piece I did a while ago of one of my Story Tellers and tried to work the two disciplines together. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I think we all understand the crutch and integrity issues involved, but I’d love to hear what you all think about it…

Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One

Well folks, the cat (and his motley crew of friends) have been let out of the bag! At Gamescon in Germany last week, Insomniac Games announced two new projects: Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One and Resistance 3. It was great to finally get the news out there.

Greg and I have been extremely fortunate to be working along side an awesome team for the new Ratchet title. It was a big move for many of us leaving Los Angeles but the highly neurotic family we’ve formed has been well worth it. If you’re looking for more info about the games, check out the links below!

Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Trailer
A41 Press Conference Playthrough
IGN’s A41 First Look
Resistance 3 Trailer

In other news, Greg and I have been crawling through some pretty deep trenches. Hopefully we’ll see some daylight one of these days! Thanks for hanging with us – we look forward to showing a few things we’ve been up to in the coming weeks. Ok, enough yapping, back to the Cintiq!

Optimus Prime Samurai

It was so nice to get back to the table and just draw again! It has been one heck of a few months for Dave and I trying to get the “more than we can chew” part of our workload wrapped up. But we just got the books back from the printers and they look great! Once the DVD gets back from the presses, we can get these things out the door.

Big news for us is we have a booth at Heroes Con this year in Charlotte on June 4th-6th. The show is brimming with amazing artists, so we’ll certainly be getting our geek on. But if you’re in the neighborhood, or not even close, swing by, we’d love to meet up and give you that firm handshake you all deserve for all the support you’ve given us over the years.

And speaking of the years, one of the first images I ever made for the site was a piece of the hero of heroes; Optimus Prime. I have been aching to do another one pretty much since I put the pen down on that one and so, 3 years later I present the bad-mamba-jamba himself donning some new samurai armor. Glad to be back!

Villians

Weeeeeeee’re back!! Hope you guys like the fresh coat of paint! Wow, I’ve never seen weeks go by so quickly. The time spent with the family was a blast and my wife and I even had a chance to visit Washington D.C. That’s one heck of a town filled with amazing art. I only got tazed once while trying to jump the White House fence.

The days were certainly busy but fortunately we’ve been able to get plenty done during our time away. Aside from the website redesign (which you can read more about here) Greg and I have been planning out some new content. We have some designs and webcomics in the works which you’ll see updated regularly. It seems as though we can’t stop giving ourselves things to do. I blame Greg.

We’re excited to be back and hope you all had an awesome holiday. I guess we should get started on 2010. Onward!