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This is pretty close to Yuriko's final design, shown here in her scuba gear. I've been trying to think of a catchier spy name for her though. The best one I have so far is Kim 60. Any thoughts or ideas?
Here are a few more sketch pages too.
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I think that this is a really exciting moment in history, and I'm hoping for the best! |
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This is a rough b&w beat board of a trailer I'd like to make for one of the films that Yuriko stars in. Lots more development to come! |
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Here's something fun I did when I was working on the last set of posters. I tried to take snapshots of the painting at every significant point of progress, then assembled them into a GIF animation. It's nothing groundbreaking, but kind of fun to watch. Click the picture below to check it out -
Also of note, if you're interested in seeing some of my favorite things that I've found around the webs lately, you can check out my shared items on Google Reader. It's mostly inspiring pieces of art that I collect from the blogs of the world. If you have a shared page too, please feel free to post it in the comments! It'd be fascinating to see all the things that are inspiring other artists.
> Kevin's Shared Items <
P.S. We're going up to San Francisco tomorrow for the Totoro Auction! Should be a good time. |
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Here's a glimpse into a project that's been consuming most of my spare brain power lately. I'm developing a character called Agent Yuriko, a cute little 60's spy girl from Tokyo. These are a few of my many pages of thought scribbles. This is a pretty typical example of how I sketch. I don't remember when I picked up the habit of filling pages with tiny drawings and words, but I've never really been the type that can make a sketchbook with lots of cool, fleshed-out drawings on every page. I guess I tend to thumbnail incessantly.
More on this to come! |
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Now that the commercial's been released I can share some of my development work with you! This isn't everything I did of course, but I picked out some of my best pieces from the project to show. To start with, here is the color script I created. This was always under revision as things changed during production.
These are a few panoramic backgrounds I painted. It was a big undertaking since they had to be HD quality and fully layered.
Here's some shots of the stadium for the end sequence. At first I was very nervous about painting the "Bird's Nest" stadium because it looks so complex, but these shots were actually a lot of fun to work on. I did these in a big rush at the very end of the project so they are not as finely detailed as some of my earlier backgrounds, but I enjoyed finding a way to abbreviate some of the detail with my brush strokes.
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I'm so excited that the project I was working on in London has finally debuted, and to see the awesome response it's been getting! You have probably already seen it on some other blog by now, but I wanted to post it on my site too. This spot for the Olympics was directed by Jamie Hewlett, and the animation was directed by the phenomenal Pete Candeland and Robert Valley. The first thing I did when I was brought on the project was design the color script, and then myself and Lukasz Pazera designed and painted all of the backgrounds. Pete was a terrific director to work with and I can't speak highly enough of the team at Passion and what a great time I had working on this project. I would love to show some of my paintings, but for now I think you should just watch the spot and enjoy. There is a site called No Fat Clips that has posted an awesome high-res version which I've linked to:
Click here to watch
Also - Comic-Con was amazing! I will post lots more about it soon. Thanks to everybody who stopped by! |
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Man I am so stoked for Comic-Con! It's always fun to hang out with my friends and get inspired by all the cool projects people are working on. Here's some of the stuff I'm gonna have for sale at the Fleet Street booth - Table F-9 - right next to Goblin Fish Press. Above is a t-shirt I designed which just came in on Wednesday! This is the first time Chris and I have tried printing t-shirts, so I really hope people like them.
I've already posted about these prints before, but they just came in the mail from the screenprinter recently and they look different from what I showed previously. I ended up changing the colors around to suit this cool paper and I'm pretty stoked about how they turned out. The light color is a metallic ink and it looks pretty wicked. The photos below will give you an idea of how the ink sits on the paper.
Oh yeah, I also spent all last weekend re-designing the Fleet Street website. Our old site just wasn't versatile enough and the design had gotten a bit stale, so I tore it down and made this new one. Go take a look and let us know what you think in the comments!
Also be sure to check out the site to see all of Chris's new Comic-Con stuff! See you in San Diego! |
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