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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Custom Entertainment Center


This is a proof of concept that my brother and I built for personal use, the hope is to make a few of these for retail in skate-shops in Austin and a Consignment store in Longview TX. This example sits on two identical skateboard decks that act as the legs, the reverse side features another skateboard cut in half and mounted facing the opposite, coupled with a wide enough base this prevents it from falling forward. We ran red rope light underneath it to give it a wicked glow, and painted the frame to match, the Nissan Grill was salvaged from a classroom where it sat under a desk for years, I cleaned it up and mounted it on the front to give it a unique character. Everything that came off of the skateboards was recycled into the construction of the unit, with structural reinforcement, of course, which is why the x-box in this picture has skate trucks under it to allow airflow to cool the electronics so they don't overheat. Our next project like this will be a higher end version, minus the skateboards and using some old Lincoln parts, in blue.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Fading Embers Press Kit

After doing the production logo for Fading Embers I was asked to do the cover art for the Press Kit, which will be shopped around to investors and coupled with the Indigogo trailer will see to it that everyone gets paid. I brought some artists on board to help with the project, an animator and concept artist to help with the trailer, and a motion graphic artist with a background in marketing.

The cover art for the press kit will also function as one of at least two posters, the source images for the the second will be in the works soon, and now that I have the billing squared away and no other modifications that I've been informed of I can post it .
I painted the actors using a combination of facebook pictures and behind the scenes stills from the day of the trailer shoot with some google image references and a few from my library of reference model image. (This was a great project, 90% of this poster was my creation and i'm proud of it and grateful for the feedback from the production team, I think I'm going to like this line of work.)

The hope is to do another poster with all four of the main actors.