Next Gen CG HUB on Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kirillchepizhko/next-generation-website-for-cg-artists

Team Shakuro is making next gen cghub.

Great Talk on creating "Appealing" character

http://www.zbrushworkshops.com/lessons/how-to-design-appealing-characters-part-1

http://www.zbrushworkshops.com/lessons/how-to-design-appealing-characters-part-2

http://www.zbrushworkshops.com/lessons/how-to-design-appealing-characters-part-3

http://www.zbrushworkshops.com/lessons/how-to-design-appealing-characters-part-4

http://www.zbrushworkshops.com/lessons/how-to-design-appealing-characters-part-5

LOL Graves the outlaw

Quick portrait painting of my long time favorite champ,  Graves the Outlaw.

Undead

Quick colors over the line drawing I did for fun.

Minions and Immortals

Hey guys, my friends up in Sacramento is developing this awesome social RPG game for ios and need some help to reach their goal happen in 14 days.  Game has great potential and it's developed by very passionate developers.  Check out their KICKSTARTER  page.  Also here are some concepts I did to help shape the look of Aetheria.  Enjoy.

WoW TCG Caverns of Time cards

WoW TCG cards I did for Caverns of Time last year finally got released.  I had really fun time doing the card illustration for Jeremy, David and Cryptozic Entertainment.

digital "alla Prima" aka speed paint demo

quick painting demo I did for student.  Same traditional painting principle applied to digital painting.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT MISTS OF PANDARIA LAUNCHED!!

WOW MOP went live smoothly yesterday and we had another great launch event.  Thank you every WOW players who showed up to Irvine Spectrum.

This time couple of my art works made into the art book. :)

VIDEO STARTS AT 0:33:00 with GANGNAM STYLE~!!

I am officially new NPC in WOW MOP

Love it!!

http://www.wowdb.com/npcs/66685-danky-kim

Random painting 3

unfinished painting part 3

Reason why console games are having hard time. IMO

What is Art?

"To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art."
-Leo Tolstoy


quote from Bioware: Annual Video Games Lecture by Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk

Lecture video link

Random paintings 2

More random after work paintings.

Random unfinished paintings 01

K, so I thought I will never post paintings on the blog again but since my friends convinced me to do so, here we go... =) These are some random after work daily doodles from 2010-2011. I'll try to update more frequently with newer work so come visit. Thanks for coming and enjoy.

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

True hero

Pacing

PATV on video game pacing.
This can be actually apply to our art work as well.

Arc/ Scene/ Action


http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/episode-07-pacing

Game Industry People "How do we see each other?"

Some funny spam I saw at work today. LOL Brilliant!!

Something you might want to evaluate yourself before doing anything and see what is your real weakness. Understanding your weakness and improving that aspect of art will help you improve tremendously.

"LIGHT creates ambiance and feel of a place,

as well as the Expression of a STRUCTURE"

- Le Corbusier

Cole Eastburn

I like to introduce a great artist/ friend/ co-worker at Blizzard, Cole Eastburn. Most of you, digital artist probably have seen his work some where in the web. His Journey as an artist is very fascinating (you can follow his sketchbook @ conceptart.org, his work ethic and love for the ART is something people need to learn and follow. His personality, well definitely easy going and fun to be around.

He just started his new blog and I would like people to definitely check it out and get some inspiration. I do every day at work, mesmerized by his magic and talent. =)

http://www.thecolehole.blogspot.com/

iPhone Game Company takes a holiday to Play StarCraft 2

http://mashable.com/2010/07/27/smule-starcraft-2/
http://www.smule.com/

This is silly and funny at same time.

Midnight SC2 global launch pictures

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=178337772456&aid=242512&s=0&hash=b67cf2e0515ca138d8c15e4c2ee2f190



WoW!!!!!

Starcraft II new trailer