Bryan Ray, Visual Effects Artist

August 13, 2009

The Ruined Valley

My Visual Effects Field Production class is attempting to recreate several shots from the trailer of The Mutant Chronicles. (Great trailer, lousy movie.) This is a photographic composite intended to replace this shot:

5_1 ELS Cliff Moon Soldiers

And my version (Click to enlarge):

Ruined-Valley

The night sky, some of the midground mountains, the refinery, and the rocky arch were provided by cgtextures.com and are used in accordance with that site’s license.
The bridges were provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Original photo entitled “Bixby Canyon Bridge” by Cpt Albert E Theberg, NOAA Corps (Ret) is in the public domain.
I photographed all the other elements myself along the Peak to Peak Scenic Highway between Blackhawk and Estes Park, CO.

Looks like YouTube nixed the trailer for a Terms of Use violation. Too violent, I guess, though it really wasn’t even as bloody as an episode of CSI, in my opinion.

June 27, 2009

An Offworld Environment

Another project for Perspective & Proportion. The assignment was to illustrate an offworld environment—something that was obviously not of Earth, whether fantasy or science-fiction. I have been exploring some steampunk motifs recently, and steampunk always seems to go hand-in-hand with airships. So I imagined these enormous towers where the airships could dock without having to get close to the ground.

Pencil sketch inked over with a fine sharpie and finished with grey Prismacolors and a little bit of white Prismacolor pencil to bring some highlights back into it.

A Fantasy Environment with Airships

A Fantasy Environment with Airships

The airships are the same design that I made for my Digital Illustration class, minus the fishing net apparatus:

The original airship image

The original airship design image

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