[Vortx]

Hey everyone. A little update on what i'm doing lately: I left my old job over at Liquid and is now working at Blur (you know, the guys who did that dancing xbox robot, among other cool stuff). I'm working as a full-time concept artist there...and it's been awesome so far. Finally i get to draw everyday instead of doing game art.

Here's a recent un-used concept art (client changed their mind). It was drawn very quicky....so it kinda sux..hehe...but i do like the head shot.



-feng

ps. I know there are other BLUR artists that frequent this forum....let me who you are =)



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[Krazy]

sweet dude i love it. It totally kicks ass, and yes i especially like the head too and his claw/hands are cool.

[Bradford]

Nice work as always, glad to see your back posting.

Bradford

[Chapel]

Congrats Vortx. Was this a planned thing? Did you atleast finish your game over there?

[Rinaldo]

Nice pic Feng, glad to hear you're getting to do what you want

[jcterminal]

wow. i can't believe i never saw your work before. you are a god.

i'm glad to see you are getting what you deserve.

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[Sergenth]

If you ever release a book of your concept art in the future, I'll buy it

Congrats on your new job too!

[burn0ut]

Ay really badass, yes the head kicks ass, i also like his legs hands n feet

good work keep it up!

[TheMilkMan]

Damn Vortex you are the man > I love your work. Anyways I can't think of a better job for you. I mustwarn you however that be ready to be burned out from drawing all the time. I mean ya it is cool to do it for awile then you get burned out...I was doing concept for like 8 months on a certain project and man I got so burned out drawing...anyways I am back and better then ever..This drawing is soo f-ing cool ..awsome baddy!!! Please post more man you don't post enough!!!!!!

[Flinthawk]

Great pics Vortx, as usual. I love the nice clean style you've got for eveything even though I'm more of a sketchy type. I particularly like the whole look you get from the your paper and medium. What exactly are you working on/with on all these concept drawings?

Hehe, what's kind of amusing is the fact that you're working with Blur now, who like you said, worked on that 'dancing robot'. Well, I'm an artist working for Pipeworks, the ones who took that 'dancing robot' and changed it from the avi that Blur did into the real-time interactive application that it is now, reflections and all. Just thought that was an interesting fact that I thought I'd share. In fact, one of the other artists here was trying to get us all to challenge the guys there at Blur to a Quake 3 game since I'm told you run your own server and take all challengers, heh.

Anyways, keep up the great work man.

-Flinthawk

[Wayco]

makes me think of a demonic ghengis khan

[ZiG]

AH DAMN! Man I was @ blur a few days ago with a group of college students. It was an off campus program where a group of students ( of which i was a part of ) visited a bunch of houses. I wish i had known you were there. Tell aaron he kicked ass, we visted around 17 places and the majority liked aaron the best. ill be applying there in a few years. wish i could have met ya.

-ryan

[kanabis]

damn nice work as always ..

i too would buy a book of your concept art

[Maruman]

wow your at blur .. sweetness man. i wanna work for them one day :-P hehe and damn i love you artwork.

dude you need to write some tuts about your marker techneqiues!!! i've been mucking around with them tr out a few things. i may post some of them... not that goo though :-/ anyway congrats on the job :-)



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[Maruman]

damn douable post.. sorry


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[Blitz]

GOOD for you man..

That is what I want to do eventualy. Concept art.

I know it may be hard to brake into that field but I am working on it.

Any advice for us up and coming Vortx wanabees (as far as carier goes)

Blitz

[nt]

Awesome work Vortx! Your drawings makes me want to start drawing right away! Your work is so beatiful and so personal.
Good to hear you are doing what you really want to do!

I hope that you would post new stuff soon!

Peace
Out

JuSSi

[Bg]

I'm looking forward to seeing Battle Realms, but now that they've lost a very good concept artist... it's a real shame.

Anyway, congrats for your new job, Vortx!
Btw. I hope you got finished with all your Battle Realms -characters?

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[Infinity]

lol... It definitely doesn't suck .. oh VortX I think I'm gonna colorize a few more of your sketches they're all awesome

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[kimzoll]

those feet are wicked, man! very original. Yeah it could be nice to know some of your technics, I cant figure out what you did with this piece....hmmm...I hope youll share it.
Kim

[Joachim]

nice work as always vortx I've heard about blur, if it's "blur studios" you are talking about, those who do rendered movies, effects and such ?!? They are really good, do a lot of nice plugins to 3dsmax as well. Anyway, congrats with your new job.
what paper do you use, is that the original color of it, or has it been modified in phshop ? I guess you use some brown paper or something, since you use a whitepencil for the highlights, that really brings out the character from the paper,... think I gotta buy some brownish paper

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[Bizarde]

Hi Feng, nice to see some new stuff of you. I'm glad to hear your new workplace fits you better. Anyway i think you rock the place...so i'm happy for you...

~bizarde

[kos.mandis]

As everyone said, great pic and best of luck with your new job!

[dreddawg]

Congrats. You are there with the amazing Neil Blevins and Steve Blackmon (Of Ghost fame with Scott Kirvan). Good company. I can't wait to see some of your stuff broken down into high resolution 3d.

[Dives]

luv it.

[Frost]

Feng: "Blur"? I was led to think that it was Pipeworks who did those xbox demos... ( http://www.pipeworks.com/gallery.html )... anyway, congrats on the new job!

Edit: Never mind.. just read flinthawk's post... wow. very cool. =)

Flinthawk: Hey, cool to see a Pipeworks guy here! You guys do a great job! Must be cool to work with Mark Crowe and the gang... dang. =) Did you also do some nVidia tech demo stuff like the toy soldier thing and tentacle-fish?

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[micke]

Congratulations Feng!
Seems to be a dream job, just sit and draw all day Great drawing by the way. Do you sketch first with a marker and move in later with details? I seem to recall that's the way Doug Chiang do it too.
Great drawing and good luck with the new job.

-Mikael

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[Jenn]

Congrats Feng

The image is really nice btw As your stuff always is

Whats the paper you use btw? I cant seen to find any thing like it around..

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[Flinthawk]

Yeah Frost, it is pretty cool here. We've got Mark Crowe working on the design for one title and our other main designer is Scott Youngblood, lead designer of Starseige:Tribes. It's a lotta fun sitting within earshot of the designer's offices, hehe. It's nice to start off in the industry with a bunch of veterans, too.

We didn't do the other two demos you mentioned though. We did, like I said, the real-time version of the robot trainer sequence, we did the butterfly garden, the ping pong ball room and a real time scene with a photorealistic computer desk full of little easter eggs that you could interact with like that office toy with the five steel balls that swing and hit each other to show how forces are transferred...well, we just just call it the klack demo. Unfortunately I was only hired on after these demos were completed so I didn't work on any of them but at least that means I'm working on actual games right now =) I'm hoping that our games get announced soon so I can finally talk about them in broad daylight. It can be fun to be secretive though, hehe.

-Flinthawk

[TheMilkMan]

Flinthawk how old are you..just wondering cause I am new also in the industry I am 22