The Passenger DVD Now $14.95

That's the same amount of plastic for $5 less!  Postage is still $6 though ($3 within Australia), can't do much about that.  Purchase instructions are here.

Multipurpose Person Version 1.0

Here's something I just whipped up over the past decade.  Well, I started it about a decade ago, but have been giving it some more attention recently.

I intend to continue refining and perfecting it indefinitely, for use as the basis for whatever humanoid characters I may need in the future.  In this instance I've given him an Anatomy Tools inspired makeover as a detail test for my newly revised 3D workflow.  It's a bit rough in places - that's what tests are all about.

Sculpted and textured in Sculptris, modelled and rendered in Lightwave, with some displacement baking help from Blender.  Some more details on the Sculptris forum.

If playback is choppy, try here.

Blacktop Kings Concept Art

There's not much to show for the years between 1999 and 2006 - other than a certain short film project - so let's skip forward to '06 when I re-entered the game biz for a few months in order to fund completion of said film.

These are some of the concept paintings I did for an Iron Monkey Studios game during that time. Not sure if/when it will be released..

My Art History: Infiltrator

Sketches from another defunct Beam/Infogrames game in 1999.

My Art History: Biotech

1998 concept art from one of several Beam games that never saw the light of day.

My Art History: KKnD Krossfire

Now that that mess is out of the way (after yet another laborious cleanup... the infection wasn't contained after all), it's time to delve back into the archives and continue where we left off.

Here we have some promo stills from the opening cinematic of KKnD 2, on which I served as Lead Cinematic Artist while at Beam Software in 1997.  The whole intro can be found on YouTube without much effort.

Website Mk III

Much as I liked my old site, hackers with pharmaceuticals to sell seemed to like it as well, so it had to go. Since I was rebuilding everything (for the third time I might add) I thought I might as well take advantage of the situation and do some redecorating - the upshot of which is that the site works a little bit better now as well. Take that pharma-hackers!

Now I just have to deal with this other 'entity' that's trying to claim ownership of The Passenger and have it blocked from YouTube...

Passenger Gear List & Budget Breakdown

Added some more information to the increasingly unuseless Useless Information section.

Sale Now On

Finally. Get The Passenger here for half price until the 12th of May 2011 or until sold out. Huzzah.

1 Million Views Reached!

Get The Passenger DVD for $9.95 until the 11th of May 2011. Huzzah!

...or at least that's what I would have said, if it wasn't for Chaos.com having some issues updating the price (although the PAL version is currently showing as $9.99, which is close), and since it's the weekend nothing much can happen until businesses reopen on Monday anyway I guess. So let's say the sale starts Monday 11th.

[Edit: I'm told this will be fixed overnight, which makes it Tuesday here :/... so I'm extending it to the 12th of May.]

1 Million Views Sale

The Passenger is approaching a million YouTube views (insert maniacle Dr Evil laugh here), so to celebrate I thought I'd make the DVD half price ($9.95) for, let's say, a month (or until I run out of stock). But wait - there's still 100,000 to go before we reach the magical number, so the more the link gets around the faster we'll get to 1,000,000 (more maniacle chortling).

My Art History: Rodent

The other character from my doomed 1996 short.

My Art History: The Digital Age

A concept for my first Lightwave short, which made it as far as a test animation before I found full time employment. One of my early Fractal Design (now Corel) Painter paintings, 1996.

My Art History: Tea Break

My last real-life airbrush painting before it was overthrown by the arrival of The Wacom. I never even cleaned out the airbrush. Missing are fireball exlosion and debris, background Harrier and face detail amongst other things. Acrylic, 1995.

<-- Cockpit closeup.