Metroid Sketchies

Loooooooove metroid. Want to do a painting, but time is limited right now. Im sure ill get around to it eventually. But I did some sketches for now.

Starcraft comic cover finished.

When Im not roaming aimlessly with Angela, listening to 99 luft balloons on repeat with the top down on the TT, I like to stare at the same painting for 15 hours. Sometimes I finish something neat... and then I think its not finished and then I tell myself 15 hours for something that will never get used for anything is too long... and I tell myself its finished again.

nova colony - the paperclip

skidoodlezzz

Starcraft painting, work in progress

Just thought Id post some of the progress on the painting Im currently working on in my free time. Ill try to post updates as I progress. Its pretty close to finished, but still needs some work. For one, Im trying to keep it dark, but I think it needs more highlight behind the zerg to get a better overall read. I dont know what Ill do with it yet. Nothing a bottle of Philips Union , and a free evening cant fix.
-Trent

Final Fight Streetwise cutscene storyboards

I recently began organizing all of my old artwork by year. In that process of digging through countless hard drives and folders and duplicate files, sometimes I find a little nugget of something cool that was believed to be previously lost. For fans of the Final Fight Streetwise video game on the ps2 and xbox, here are a few of the storyboards for the cutscenes. I did all of the storyboards and sometimes made animatics for cutscenes before they went to Eiko to be roughed out in animation, and then passed on to an external studio for final animation.
If you played the game, you should recognize these shots and scenes. There were over an hour of cutscenes, this is only from 4 of the scenes.
-Trent

self portraified

this is my face.

Cyberfrog drawing

Doing this sketch, brought me back to my struggling early years in comics. We used to draw each others characters a lot. Its always fun to see a new take on something youve made... but I think after Ethan saw this drawing, he didnt talk to me for like... a year.

a quick hand job

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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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