Posts Tagged: photoshop

Sierra Side Painting

Posted 2017/02/06 by Sterling

After spending all day storyboarding action and drama, taking two hours to paint a landscape where nothing happens is pure…

Beach Break

Posted 2016/03/12 by Sterling

Sitting at a desk too long. All my day dreams are about salty air and large swell rolling in. Need…

Junk ship

Posted 2016/01/15 by Sterling

A cluttered spaceship interior.

Red Rover

Posted 2012/08/06 by Sterling

In honor of the Mar Curiosity Rover safely landing on Mars this afternoon I thought it would be nice to…

Mini Me

Posted 2012/04/06 by Sterling

Just updated the sites favicon to this swell little animated self-portrait.

High Noon Storyboards

Posted 2012/02/14 by Sterling

The following is a storyboard sequence I created for a Zeroes 2 Heros project entitled “Animism”.

Messy Paintings with ArtRage

Posted 2011/08/03 by Sterling

Today we were testing speed and the painting apps mess factor. Not trying to make anything too special our goal…

Programable Paintings

Posted 2011/07/28 by Sterling

ArtRage Studio Pro is the newest weapon in my digital painting arsonal and quite possibly the most powerful. The selling…

Sea Serpent Drawing

Posted 2011/06/12 by Sterling

The massive sea serpent made short work of the whalers and their long boat.

Dragon Character Designs

Posted 2011/05/29 by Sterling

Below are some exploratory character designs from the "Dragon" project. Most of this designs are about four years old and…

Dragon Paintings

Posted 2011/05/29 by Sterling

Here is a collection of concept paintings I made for the Dragon project. All were painted in Photoshop.

Thesis Art

Posted 2011/05/28 by Sterling

I had a pretty clear visual idea of what i was going to make and jumped straight into the animation.…

Cub Scouts Pack 213

Posted 2011/05/28 by Sterling

"We spell scouts S-C-O-U-U-T-S which makes us a completely different autonomous organization." - The Scouut Leader An improvised comedy about…

Wakefield Art

Posted 2011/05/27 by Sterling

I really should have a lot more work to show for this project. It has lived in my head for…

Silas gets a game card

Posted 2011/05/13 by Sterling

Just finished painting Silas' memory game card. Here it is fresh out of photoshop.

Virginia gets the icon treatment.

Posted 2011/05/12 by Sterling

The wife was the first to get the Icon treatment. She is a harsh critic of these sort of things…

New Profile Icon

Posted 2011/05/11 by Sterling

in the spirit of updating things created an new profile icon. Nothing out of the ordinary, just the usual suspects,…

Happy 2011 Everyone!

Posted 2010/12/31 by Sterling

Another year has come and gone. You were a lot of fun 2010 we won't forget you!

Birthday painting

Posted 2010/12/24 by Sterling

I was caught off guard on my birthday and to my surprise Virginia gave me a brand new Cintiq 12wx.…

Jungle Painting

Posted 2010/12/04 by Sterling

She wanted something that looked like an old tropical postcard. So first I painted this nice little Costa Rican Landscape…

Orchard doodlin’

Posted 2010/11/20 by Sterling

...the internet was down for a few hours and having nothing to do at my parents house I sat down…

The man behind the curtain

Posted 2010/09/09 by Sterling

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! I built a redirect page for the website today and to…

Red Silas Painting

Posted 2010/09/07 by Sterling

He spent a good half hour drawing in photoshop. Here is the mornings masterpiece. I helped by picking different colors…

Davey Jones Game Pitch

Posted 2010/08/21 by Sterling

I had an idea for an iphone game about a free diver who has to dive down in search of…

Rough MonSTER model

Posted 2009/08/19 by Sterling

I recently started to learn how to model characters in Maya. This is something I have been wanting to learn…

Sketchy mountain

Posted 2009/06/22 by Sterling

Nothing special here, just a very quick, rough camera projection test I did while waiting for something in the oven.

Camera projection tests

Posted 2009/03/24 by Sterling

Recently I have been working on and off on camera projection tests.

Valley Pan

Posted 2009/02/08 by Sterling

A camera projection test I made in Maya. The goal was to create a 2d/3d hybrid look.

The Northern Pass

Posted 2008/11/14 by Sterling

One of the reasons I have been trying to learn Maya is so I can make 2.5d backgrounds for my…

“Error”

Posted 2008/10/20 by Sterling

Nothing is more frustrating than following a maya tutorial and not having anything work.

ALIEN EVOLUTION THEORY

Posted 2008/10/04 by Sterling

Digging though some old files I stumbled across a document explaining my character design ideas for the Space Chimp Aliens.

“Post”tramatic stress

Posted 2008/09/07 by Sterling

After getting bumped from story and character design there wasn't much for me to do around the office. Still I…

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Posted 2008/09/06 by Sterling

After a few months in the story department I was pulled aside by the Directors of Space Chimps and told…

The King and I

Posted 2008/09/02 by Sterling

Below is a small sample of some of the character designs that I explored for the King in the movie…

Ambient Cinema “ Stillborn”

Posted 2008/08/30 by Sterling

A few years ago I was really excited about ambient cinema. Making films for the purpose of creating atmosphere.

I was “AD”dicted

Posted 2008/08/29 by Sterling

Whenever there was a little time to kill I often found myself working on some sort of ad. To be…

There and back again

Posted 2008/08/28 by Sterling

Here are some panels I drew showing the chimps arrival and departure from the planet Zeta. ARRIVAL: This “was” my…

Lost in Space Chimps

Posted 2008/08/28 by Sterling

One of the downsides to being a writer or a concept artist is that no one ever gets to see…