My profile on StarWars.com

Lucasfilm's Bonnie Burton interviewed me for their ongoing Star Wars Artist series over at StarWars.com which is now online. Click the link below to read the article!

http://www.starwars.com/eu/explore/profile/f20060411/index.html

Here is a color concept piece I did for my film, which by the way, the working title is called Legend of Shallandra.

Movie Project

For some time I have been making preparations for a short fantasy film I plan to shoot. I won't go into too much detail on the story, suffice it to say it is about a a girl who under circumstances has no choice but to go on a journey to save her husband and face a greater trouble that may turn her world upside down.

The film has been storyboarded, costumes have been made and props are ready to use. I have one actor in place but I am still searching for a girl to play the main role.
For the time being I'd like to share some of the storyboards that have been done for the film. I will continue to make updates as the film progresses.

Most Curious...

The animated feature Curious George was released in theaters last week with a weekend opening of $14 million, which as far as 2d animation goes is not a bad number. The company where I work (Fat Cat animation) had the honor of getting a contract to do a couple of sequences for Universal for the movie. My role in this whole thing was to paint the backgrounds along with a couple of other artists. It was a pretty hectic time, for some departments more than others but definitely worth it! So go see the movie and support the 2d animation industry, otherwise I will be out of a job!!! ;) Okay not really, but do go see it...heck, I haven't seen it myself! Must go this week.
In the meantime here are a few backgrounds I did for the movie...

Happy New Year!

I just completed all 206 sketch cards for the Lord of the Rings Evolution set. Man, these were more of a challenge than the Star Wars set...maybe because I had to draw more human faces this time whereas Star Wars has a wide variety of aliens and robots to choose from also. Here are some samples of my cards approved by Topps. Enjoy. :)

Lord of the Rings Sketch Cards

Topps have once again asked me to do a set of sketch cards for them, this time for Lord of the Rings Evolution! I have committed to doing 200 so far, but I may do more. I can't post any of my work just yet but I will as soon as Topps give me the ok!

New Work

Here is some recent work I created completely in Photoshop.

Back from C3!

Just got back from Star Wars Celebration 3. Had a great time but man it was jam packed in there! I thought San Diego Comic Con was bad. Got to meet some of the other Topps sketch artists including Joe Corroney, Randy Martinez, Matt Busch, Sarah Wilkinson (Sarah's awesome), Cat Staggs, Cynthia Cummens, Justin Chung, Tommy Lee Edwards, plus many more. Thanks guys for being very supportive and all your encouraging words! I enjoyed talking to all of you.
George was there but the lines for him were way too long so I just skipped on that. On the other hand Rick McCallum candidly walked by in the hall and stopped to say hi to me and my friends! We shook hands and had our picture taken with him...a very cool moment.

Other news - though rather late news - my sketch cards for the Topps Revenge of the Sith set are out since April 2 and I'm already seeing a few on ebay. Really good feeling to see people are buying them. What's been even better is hearing from people saying they are a big fan of my work. Wow, that's feels really weird...
I will have some scans up soon showing my sketch cards, so anyone who's been waiting, don't worry they're coming!

An update on the Galactica book cover, it's been a while since I submitted my rough sketch for approval, so I called the publisher and well, the editor is currently on vacation...but I was told they are pretty sure it has been approved. I was getting worried for a while wondering if it was going to be approved at all. Anyway, I'm still excited about this project. I haven't had a Star Wars book cover/comic cover published yet but this is the next best thing for me. Wish me luck!

A bit more about me and my current projects...

Well you've probably already guessed I'm an artist. I work as a part time freelancer in role playing game products, book covers, trading cards, etc. I thought you'd be interested in hearing about some of my current projects. Following the sketch cards I completed for Topps publishing for their Star Wars Heritage set (see image in last post) they have asked me to do sketch cards for their Revenge of the Sith set coming out in April. I have been commissioned to do 200 cards which I just finished a week ago. A lot of work but fun! Unfortunately I can't post any just yet - not until I get an ok from the editor.

I am also working on a couple of painted pieces for Decipher cards for their 'Wars' series. These guys are serious about their product and I'm proud to be a part of it! But man, are there some talented artists working on this set. I have no choice but to raise the bar for myself.

Lastly, this is another project I'm pretty excited about - Ibooks publishing have commissioned me to do a book cover illustration for their next Battlestar Galactica novel. Not based on the new series...this one is a reprint of an old novel published during the original series based on the episode 'The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" (the one when they land on the snow planet, remember?) but the original title was called "The Cylon Death Machine" which is a much better title I think. So far all I've done is rough sketch for which I am waiting approval from Universal before I'm given the go ahead. It's been a couple of weeks since it's been submitted, hopefully everything is going okay!

Anyways January was definitely not a bad month for work. Can we keep this up??

Here are some of my Star Wars Heritage cards for Topps 

Game Art for a computer games company in Europe