Kitchen Sketch

Tree Dynamics

I recently bought the amazing "elemental magic: The Art of Special Effects Animation" book by Joseph Gilland. As he talked about the dynamics of fluids I thought it sounded quite similar to the dynamics of a tree and I got a sudden urge to apply the theory on some tree sketches. And it payed off ( and I'm only on a quarter of the book), can't wait to experiment further. So thanx mister Gilland!

The Balloon Man

QuickSketch of a ..... room

It was a while since I did a speedpainting. Most of my free time goes to my little pet project game. Had a nice 45 minutes of drawing this during rendering times of 3dsMAX :) and a good 15 minutes doing the snowy road thing.

Overlord 2

I sure hope people picked up a copy of Overlord 2 if so they will recognise these decadent grotesque characters I concept. These were my first big story characters I concepted for Overlord 2 and boy were they fun. Somehow I really like to make hideously looking characters, you can put more details in it and mister gravity gets a chance to do his work on all the flesh. The posing of this screenshot is done by Michiel Wouterse. This screenshot was also featured in an article in the newspaper here in good old Holland and with that I got my 15 minutes of fame :).

Médecins Sans Frontières Game

This was a graduation project done about a year and half ago. The game never was released officially. So I think it's okay to post some artwork related to the game. We made it with a team of 5 people. The art below is art I worked on individually. My task was to art direct the game.

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

It's been a while since my last post, but after overlord 2 was released I really needed some R&R. Here are some head sketches I did in the train :) I got some more head sketches laying around and i will post them soon.


Daniel Ernst