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Post 100!!!! Jonah sheds some light on CreeD

I dont know where this guy came from, but he did a great little run down of the correct order of CreeD books.
He craftily left out a couple of books like the Ninja Turtles book and the Cyberfrog crossover from his list, but its pretty accurate. I recommend checking it out and leaving him some feedback.
-Trent

Nova Colony episode 3

Nova Colony episode 3 is up. Love this and some people will hate you.
-Trent

Curious album cover

I just got an advanced copy of the Curious album cover that I painted. Graphic design was done by Jeff Lawter. It turned out really nice! Ill post it after the band releases the images publicly. In the meantime, you can check out their music here:
http://www.myspace.com/curiousmusic
-TRENT!

Nova Colony episode 2

Its up! on youtube.
Nova Colony episode 2

Nova Colony episode 1 is up!

Ive been working on a Motion Graphic series for quite some time now and we finally feel that Valentines day is the best day to start the series! Check out Novacolony.com and get ready to change your pants. Just to show you how much both Jimm and I love you, we made you a valentines day card. Use it to harass the ones you love.


-trent

Interview on Diablo3resource.com

A while back I did an interview with Diablo3resource.com. I was unaware that the interview was published until tonight. So here is a link to anyone that my be interested in my ramblings.
http://www.diablo3resource.com/interviews/diablo-3-concept-artist-interview.php
-trent

New Diablo 3 concepts released.

Blizzard released several new concept art pieces. 2 of which were done by me. I present them to you here as well for those that dig this sort of thing. Again, i'm suprised at which pieces they choose to show. These are rough thumbnail concepts used to work out early stages of a design.
Anyway, in other news, my buddy Ethan Van Sciver is posting a ridiculously good column over at newsarama.com (http://www.newsarama.com/comics/010908-Ethan-07.html). Please show him some love... wait... he'd probably actually hate that. But check it out regardless, as it is very well written.
In Nova Colony news, Im wrapping up the end credits animation I intend to use for each episode... I just need to add more blood and garbage.
-trent

Nova Colony countdown

Ive made some tremendous progress on the Nova Colony project. In fact, the website went live yesterday featuring a theme song by Jeremiah Ryder. We put the request in over 6 years ago, but he's been way overbooked, and I had to sell my summerhome in Hawaii just to afford him.
Nova Colony is something beyond a comic book. Yet its not quite a film. I am very excited to see how people will react to this new project Jimm and I have been working on for so long. But technology can finally sustain the type of product we want to present, and it is coming VERY soon.
www.novacolony.com
-trent

Creed 16 bit style

About 2002 I was working with a small company to make a CreeD video game for the nintendo GBA. At the same time Ironically, I was doing a Thor Comic book and art directing Terminator 3 on the GBA with a different company. As a side note, if you have that game, I did all of the background tile art for the whole thing. Not particularly my proudest moment, it was certainly a challenge. But it was my second video game that I ever worked on.

weekend painting

I started working with traditional paints recently. So Im going to be posting progress images for pieces that Im doing in acrylics and oils. Its been 8 years since Ive touched an actual brush, so itll be fun to watch my skills improve in this way. Theres just something so compelling about the organic brushwork that compels me to do so. This first image is for a new graphic novel that Im working on in between Nova Colony pages. Ive been glued to the sketchbook lately, and just waiting on some new script work from Jimm Showman.
Sunday at the beach was so cold that my hands were shaking too much to draw. So next sunday the guys and I are going to the Spectrum, which is a nearby mall with some cool little coffee shop spots to draw.

The Fuzz!

So, back in 1999 I created a new property called "The Fuzz" with Jeff Lawter and together we sold the rights to Top Cow and Fox Kids for an animated show. This was around the time that we created "Stitch Fits" for Jnco as well.
The Fuzz was about a fuzzy little alien guy that went through "liquid space" collecting ancient alien artifacts, exploring historical ruins and such from worlds held in place by a fluid. His partner was "Zoe" a spunky mechanic with keen sense of timing and tons of knowledge about the worlds they would explore.
In this episode (which is so old, that i lost the script and am too lazy to rewrite) The two are hired to find a device on one of the planets, but it turns out to be infested with spiderlike creatures and a Morvian beast. Barely escaping, they are on their way back to cash in, when Tyrin, (the self proclaimed most handsome bounty hunter in the galaxy) shoots them down.
The book and story were fun, and a great exploration into what was really more of a concepting gig than a comic book. Jeff and I put together over 55 drawings of different worlds, artifacts and characters. Sad that the show was never put into production. But we got a few bucks for it, and now I own it again. So Im releasing it here without lettering.
I WOULD rewrite it, but theres really no point. Its such old work that I dont even really feel that its a strong representation of what I can do. Besides, Ive got a couple of newer projects in the works that are far more exciting.

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Corona Del Mar sketches part deux!

I did some acrylic painting, but I hated it and threw it away. Just to get my confidence back up, I went back to pencils. I decided this time that Ill start to slowly infuse color with watercolor to ease into color studies, as it is more of my intention to master outdoor painting. these sketches are great study for now... i did this one in half the time, using more of the side of the graphite.

Corona Del Mar sketches

Ive started going out to draw on sundays in Corona Del Mar. As I get more confident with outdoor drawing, I want to start doing color studies. But these 2 images are from Sunday. They have some incredibly beautiful rock formations with small sandy lagoon style beaches and interesting tide pools.

Wrath of the Lich King concepts

2 Years ago, I did preproduction concept art for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. These images were requested to be simply "quick sketches" just showing mood, silhouette and an interesting and creative visual direction for each of the unique zones. Though, I left WoW about 1.5 years ago to work on Diablo, some of these images still echo into the beautiful monsterpiece that is Wotlk. And the team did an incredible job. I too in fact am desperately attempting to make time to play it.
-trent

halloween pix

So when some chick named Angela told me she was going as "Lady Justice" I thought... "damn, I need a sweet ass superhero outfit!". Turns out she meant the OTHER Lady Justice.

Transformers sketches

When I was a kid, my babysitter made me a 3d optimus prime cake. It was really kick ass. Anyway, I did some sketches of Prime last year...

More Diablo 3 concepts

More of my concepts for Diablo 3 were shown at blizzcon.

Mitsuko painting and signings (edited)

I dont really get to do many finished paintings at work. Most concept work is done within a day, or sometimes within a few hours. So lately Ive been trying to do more complete illustrations at home. The likeness of this image is based on the model Mitsuko.
Also if you will be at Blizzcon this weekend, Ill be signing between 4:30-5 (hopefully longer) this Saturday (the 11th).
-trent

Diablo 3 pieces

Directly from Gamespot.com, here are 2 images that I did for Diable 3.