Amazing Spidey - UI

A couple unused UI thumbnail designs for the Tree of Life in the Amazing Spider-Man..
 

I can't wait until real world HUDs are like those in Ironman 2 and the new Total Recall'

-Joshua

Dark Souls 2

PhotoBlastin'

 

Blur's latest'

Jarred Purrington did some awesome storybaords for this piece.

-Joshua

Recent Reference!

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Key Frame Illustration - CDA!

 

 

I will be teaching a Key Frame Illustration class focused on Production Paintings at CDA this coming Fall Term. I am ridiculously humbled, surprised and honored to be a part of such an amazing art school! 

Concept Design Academy - Course Schedule

Humbly,

-Joshua

p.s. Those old images Kevin chose for the flyer make me cringe in terror' ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ..Tattoo'

There is a behind the scenes over at Art of the Title for Blur's GWDT opening credits..

 

The balance of detail and interplay of forms got a bit muddled..  o_O

-Joshua

Digital 2D

Wacom we need a thinner and lighter Cintiq ..

-Joshua

Chaos Rejected

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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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This is a skewed glimpse of the dragon tattoo I designed for David Fincher's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film. The image is from LeMonde.fr and the photo crédit belongs to Jean-Baptiste Mondino & Sony Pictures .. 

Over at io9 you can view a making of and interview regarding the opening credits we worked on here at Blur ..

-Joshua

GOLDfish!

It's the "Snack that smiles back" !

This is one of the funnest projects I worked on here at Blur. 
You can check out the videos here'

 Fuzzy Face!

Now this right here is a MAN's concept! the Bunny Room! I specifically asked to do this piece, I was thinking of my niece Lyric when I drew it.

These are some stamps for the clubhouse scene..

So clearly I had reference for these guys. I was attempting to make little designy and painterly illustrations..

I thought it would be fun to have a landscape for the stamp behind the goldfish at the podeum in the clubhouse. I thought it would be neat just in case the camera zoomed in close enough you'd get the feeling that the character was in another place. It doesn't serve the story but, it serves my silliness!

These are environments for the spot featuring the basketball player D!wyane. It was nice to try and flex my 'painted cartoony design chops'. I think some aspects of these pieces are successful but, I think some of the shapes and brush strokes lack grace here and there. Still..they were great fun to work on.

 I almost' didn't show this last piece mainly because it reeks of the mediocre. I am a huge fan of the Disney Layout and Design Artists from the 2D days so when I see myself busting out subpar techniques and designs it kind of gets to me. The clouds really lack balance when it comes to how their sub-forms are arranged and the perspective in general needed more attention. And again clumsy brush work, ill informed color palette and blah blah blah blah ^_^

 Thanks for lookin!
-Joshua

House'

I did this sketch last year around when I started watching the Black Adder again. I've only seen a couple episodes of House but, hopefully Netflix will be streaming it sometime.

-Joshua

Gnomon '

On June 30th I'll be starting my 2nd term teaching at Gnomon. It's an honor to be a part of the school and very fulfilling. It's definitely a fun and educational experience..

Course Link

-Joshua

the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I was honored to be given the opportunity to design the Dragon Tattoo along with a couple others tattoos for Fincher's version of the film. I wish the design would have turned out a little better and I'm not sure that the greys gelled well with the pure blacks in the transfer.. alas, it is still very cool to be a part of this..

Sincerely,
-Joshua James