Of course, the sensible thing would be to use an existing game engine, but after a certain point, there is some curiosity if learning and fighting yet another game engine is really quicker that just writing something from scratch.
A screen-grab showing a portion of the matte-painting that I completed for the film Kon-Tiki in 2012 with a CGI DC3 aircraft. The original matte was over 16000px in width. Grab courtesy Gimpville AS and Egmont Nordisk Film. The film is the largest and most expensive production undertaken in Norway and was nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars & Golden Globe.
Below: Here is Gimpville’s effect breakdowns for Kon-Tiki. The team there did an amazing job. The sequence in which…
A personal piece inspired by H.G Well's seminal late-Victorian science fiction classic, 'The War of the Worlds'. The scene depicts the last service leaving St Pancras station before the fall of London to the Martians. Includes detail breakout.
The concepts were originally for a game project with a fictional 18th century setting that a group of colleagues including myself were working on. Unfortunately it didn't come to fruition.
A sample selection of concept art that I completed last year for the Norwegian animated feature, 'Knutsen & Ludvigsen og den fæle Rasputin'. Knutsen & Ludvigsen can best be described as somewhat anarchic singing duo who were immensely popular in Norway in the mid-1970’s to learly 1980’s and are famous for catchy and absurdist children’s songs still loved by young and old today. The film’s visual style is inspired by the artwork of ‘Knutsen’, otherwise known as Oystein Dolmen, who…
