EkaNaut

Mario Propaganda Series

2010-12-01T12:43:00.000-08:00

Doing a series of Propaganda posters in the Mario world. Here are the first two.

Monday Night Combat and stuff

2010-12-01T12:10:00.000-08:00

I've been keeping very busy with Uber and Monday Night Combat for the last two years or so. Art Directing, marketing, and PR stuff. Here's some of the more recent stuff:

Latest trailer for Spunky Cola Special DLC that drops today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKjiHhXyfW4

Creepy Babies Attack!

2010-02-09T00:28:00.000-08:00

I was at a toy store today with my boys and found these miniature creepy looking baby toys. All I could think about is how scary it would be if these babies started attacking at will. Shot on white printer paper with bathroom lights.

Creepy babies vs Polar Bear

Creepy Babies vs TRex

Super Blues Bros

2009-06-22T01:13:00.000-07:00

A mash up of Mario Bros and the Blues Brothers. When I started imagining these guys together it just made a lot of sense. A stylized surreal action adventure with Mario kart races on an epic quest to raise gold coins to save the Mushroom kingdom orphans. It could easily work as an animated movie or an action adventure game.

Wicked Garden

2009-04-16T00:10:00.000-07:00

A box mockup for a game idea that I did for Clayton Kauzlaric

“Molerat might taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know, ‘cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy @$%*.”

2008-12-03T01:14:00.001-08:00

So my plan over break was to do a Thanksgiving themed Uber logo. Playing Fallout3 kept getting in the way so I decided to change the theme.

Biggy Big Big

2008-11-20T23:11:00.001-08:00

random doodle and brush fun.

Happy Uber Halloween!

2008-10-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

Here's a version of the Uber logo with a zombie from Left4Dead. Braiinnss!!

Its been over a month since I've moved from Gas Powered Games to a startup in Kirkland, WA, Uber Entertainment. I'm having a blast with the talented Uber guys with our new game. It's both challenging and rewarding and I can't wait to show it off when its time. In the meantime we'll be blogging the development process over at A Birth of a Game. Follow along!

shirts for the kiddies

2008-07-13T22:49:00.001-07:00

Aidan's having his 3rd birth-day party and my wife wanted to give out shirts for all his friends. I did a quick design in Flash and Paul Z did all the hard work of making the shirts. Thanks buddy!

Eka

Speed Sculpt Challenge Part 2

2008-06-16T21:19:00.000-07:00

Yubaba from Spirited Away at 4 hours of sculpting.

Yubaba at 3 hours

Speed Sculpt Challenge

2008-06-11T00:54:00.001-07:00

I started on the new Speed Sculpt Challenge at 3dtotal. The topic is realistic cartoon. Its a four hour challenge where you take their provided generic base mesh and speed sculpt it into a realistic interpertation of a cartoon character.

update at 3 hours

at 1.5 hours

zbrush3 head sketches

2008-05-26T23:47:00.000-07:00

3dtotal 4 hour scuplting challenge that I never submitted and a couple of quick z3 sketches

Party in my tummy

2008-05-21T23:43:00.000-07:00

Yo Gabba Gabba is one of the best kids shows on TV. I watch it most mornings with my 2 year-old. Lots of good messages delivered with contagious hip-hop beats.

Aidan wall illo

2008-05-16T18:05:00.000-07:00

This is for Aidan's playroom wall. It will be sourrounded by different learning posters, numbers, letters, calender, etc. I tried to capture a bit of Olie Josman's amazing rendering style. Started in Photoshop, did clean linework in Flash and color work back in Photoshop.

Zombie Pug

2008-04-12T00:50:00.000-07:00

I started designing a zombified Pug for a HL2 mod that I used to help out with couple of years ago. It was fun to play around with taking a cute pug and turning him into a muscle bound, slightly confused, man eating, cyclops dog with a slight creepy appeal. I'll probably noodle with the body some more before moving on to the model and textures.

Sandworm Run

2008-03-14T09:04:00.000-07:00

For the Unleaded Artists Weekly Challenge. I got lazy with the Fremin. I might revisit it eventually.

That's my coin fool!

2008-03-09T22:52:00.000-07:00

commisoned 5k pixel tall poster. It was done all digitally with a combination of Photoshop and 3DSMAX for some minor 3d elements.

mummra

2008-03-07T00:39:00.000-08:00

done for a childhood storytime challenge on unleaded.

2Pac teaser

2008-02-20T21:17:00.000-08:00

I built a stylized 2Pac model and textures for a friend of mine awhile back ago. He put together a little teaser with it.

Eka

Fingerpainting!

2008-02-15T00:09:00.001-08:00

My son and I collaboed on a fingerpainting for my wife this morning using his Crayola paints. He painted the border with his Matchbox motorcycle. Fun fun to paint with your fingers!

Wanna Peanut

2008-01-25T11:44:00.000-08:00

Quick Painter sketch for Kamikaze Art Blog

#2 AKA Cody

2007-12-27T16:31:00.000-08:00

Cody had a very quick delivery on the morning of 12-12. Mom and baby are both doing well and Aidan is easing into his role as a big brother. I've forgotten how amazing the whole baby stage was. We're all having a great time. So far Cody is an easy baby. Happy holidays!

-E

ZIMMCREDIBLE!

2007-08-15T14:52:00.000-07:00

challenge on unleaded artists blog

Get well soon Paul!

forest path

2007-08-13T00:29:00.000-07:00

Palette Knife brush in Painter X.

Angry Sweater

2007-07-30T00:26:00.000-07:00

just messing around..

Hand Bag

2007-07-18T09:16:00.000-07:00

This started as a lunch sketch, then turned into a value study. I'll probably do a color version next.

Eka

His Holiness Lord Kanish IV

2007-07-09T02:13:00.001-07:00

Created for the Unleaded Artists blog challenge. The randomly generated topic was "The unathletic, promiscuous priest who was genetically engineered".

Eka

Slimey Pus

2007-06-13T23:50:00.001-07:00

Nothing worse than gettting a bit of slimey pus on your boots. Yuck!

Rock Demon

2007-06-13T01:11:00.000-07:00

Why not..

Bhante G progress part 3

2007-05-22T00:09:00.000-07:00

another hour and a half of work tonight.

Aidan in blue

2007-05-19T12:33:00.000-07:00

Another portrait in Painter X using Artist's Oils

What's in the bag Tinki Winki,....UH OH!

2007-05-18T00:38:00.000-07:00

It just amazes me the amount of junk Tinki Winki stuffs in his bag.

Bhante G progress part 2

2007-05-15T00:44:00.000-07:00

A little more progress tonight.

Bhante G progress part 1

2007-05-14T00:55:00.000-07:00

I started to mess around with Paniter X today. I likes it very much.

portrait of Aidan

2007-05-09T23:25:00.000-07:00

Portrait of my son done last December. I was playing around with different PS brushes.

Frame from Fearless color study

2007-05-09T23:18:00.000-07:00

Excersise in color and loose brush strokes. This is based of a frame from Jet Li's Fearless.

Jedi Master and his Padawan

2007-05-01T17:04:00.000-07:00

Birthday card for my buddy Chris and his son Nate-Nate

Pus Face Sculpt Progress 2

2007-04-19T00:03:00.000-07:00

1 hour of work tonight.
-Pulled some of the features out to give the whole head more dimension
-tweaked some of the details

Eka

Pus Face Sculpt Progress 1

2007-04-18T00:30:00.000-07:00

I started with a primitive cube and subdivided it to about 300,000 polygons. This is about two hours of sculpting

painting the kid's room

2007-04-15T00:47:00.000-07:00

While Beth and Aidan were away for a week, I painted Aidan's room. Orignially I wanted to do a base sky blue on three of the walls and keep one as a mural wall. Instead of painting on the wall directly, (read - too lazy) I decided to go for a more modular, easier to update approach. I drew up a couple of characters in Flash, printed them out on a giant HP plotter, spary mounted them to 30x40 foamcore and made cutouts. So far I've got flying Elmo and Mater.

Pus Face

2007-04-14T22:14:00.000-07:00

Grindhouse was a very fun movie to watch. Rodriguez's Planet Terror was damn near perfect but Tarantino's Death Proof had too much meaningless blah blah. I would have preferred less blah blah and more Kurt Russell. This image was inspired by Planet Terror.

Eka

CROM!!!

2007-04-13T14:41:00.000-07:00

Weekend Noodling.

#2 on its way..

2007-04-13T08:59:00.000-07:00

We just found out that #2 will be here sometime in December. Whoot!

-Eka