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Children of Time - Update

Back working on the Children of Time piece, still plenty to go but most elements are falling into place.

Creature Design Course - Unit 1 of 8

I was granted permission to distribute a creature design course I created exclusively for the online school Phoenix Atelier. I present here to you, Patrons, all of unit one. I am fascinated to hear...

Masking Begins

The ugly-but relaxing stage of painting, masking, where I block in the base forms before actually painting them. This is a very flexible phase and I keep things on different layers to move them abo...

Old Photos

Going through my collection of Mallacoota photos: A few of the critters I spotted during my night explorings a few years back.

Children of Time update and Waking Up Solution

Minor linework refining for the painting, needs more spiders! (and good references of human babies, who are basically never photographed from this angle it seems)

As for oversleeping; I bough...

Children of Time WIP and Life Updates

Putting together the composition for the CoT fanart, which features uplifted and perfectly reasonable giant jumping spiders. I want to render the human clothes as spider silk derived!

I signe...

Breaking the Drought

Going to do some fanart from the book 'Children of Time'. This is the species I will be working with. Portial labiata.

Life Updates

Just a general post: I am negotiating with my potential literary agent about how to sell the Birrin book. In the meantime, here are a few shots of a few of my pets.

The bubble tipped anemone ...

Birrin Book Pitch Document - Two Sky River

Hey folks,

Here it is, for those who have paid: the document I put together to share with publishers.

I cant control what you do but would appreciate not sharing it around. Consider it ...

1Up Steve Interview

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by @steve_1up about my work on 2021-06-06 14:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Life Diary + Q&A

Figured it was worth giving general updates art and life wise for you folks! Free to Patrons of course.

1. Changing meds as we speak: trying to untangle constant fatigue so switching out SSRI...

Subnautica Sketchies

A few early stage sketches developing ideas for 'shark' class predators. One would evolve into the Brute Shark, another into the Chelicerate.

Sadly the goblinshark angle had no takers!

My First Films

I don't believe I have ever released these anywhere: between 2003 and 2005 I studied at the University of Melbourne and completed a Ba in Creative Arts. During that time I made two slighty wonky sh...

Mega Collection: Below Zero Small Creatures

Everything from my 'Small Creatures' folder! Any questions about them drop below!

MEGA EGG POST

Subnautica: Below Zero is out so behold - EVERY EGG I DESIGNED FOR THE GAME

Blender Pose Dummy - Finished-ish

Seems I got this thing to work OK! I simplified the behaviour of the skeleton so the limbs are basically controlled bone by bone, while the head is a Rigify arm Metarig which means you can move the...

The Horrors of 3D

Still working on the birrin rig... this was a lot simpler with zSpheres!

Going to find out if there is a simpler way to do this.

Blender Migration

I am moving towards Blender as my standard 3D tool, a medium I was never comfortable with. 

Blender has matured into a pretty amazing program however, and its free!

This is the fir...

Road to the Antlerworm

The road to the final Antlerworm design was a rather long one, thought ya'll might like to see some of the process while I gear up to get back into the birrin book :)

From the Archives - Barnards' Swordswallower

A little something to tide my loyal patrons over - here is the process I went through to create this piece, and the internal organ designs.

Its worth noting that it was THIS image ...

Baryonic Lord - HQ

Finished! My take on the true form of the Xeelee, out of their Nightfighter craft. From the Stephen Baxter novels.

Mallacoota 2

More references being gathered.

Research Trip Finds 1

Going well gathering birrin inspiration on my Mallacoota trip. Here is a taster!

Research Trip

In a few days I will be leaving to spend a week in Mallacoota, a place that is very dear to me. In fact so dear it underlies a lot of the Birrin project.

Here are some photos my family took t...

Chipping away at the Xeelee

Working on the Xeelee fan piece between other tasks, taking it in a more... jellyfish/deep sea being direction.

Mars Hopper - HD Files

The full resolution PNGs for ya'll! The client will have their own idea, but my headcanon is that it was once re-entry capable. It was refitted and lightened for work as a suborbital hopper and giv...

Mars Hopper WIP

Most of the major elements coming together: in my mind it WAS a re-entry capable shuttle used by the colony, but was later retrofitted for simple suborbital hops. They stripped off most of the ther...

Mars Hopper Progress

A selection of more refined WIPS. The client can then mix and match the elements they like from each for a final round. 

Mars Hopper

First round of sketches for a client commission: a small crewed suborbital mars shuttle.

Lunar Hopper - HD

With permission, I present to my patrons the HQ PNG of a lunar hopper design I was commissioned! Any issues DLing the full resolution file let me know. See also the sketch selection sheet.