Visual Garble

Hi Guys,

It's often hard to realize things while you're still a part of it, but I gotta say I wouldn't have gotten to where I am today without all the wonderful friends, instructors, and coworkers that helped me along the way. So, over the last couple years I have been constantly thinking about how I could give back to the community.

Recently, I started working on a big personal project trying to create some video tutorials for the community. it would be great if I could get some general census from all artists and designers. I made a simple 11 question survey that shouldn't take more than a couple minutes to go through.

It would help me figure out what people want to see the most and what is lacking the most in the market right now.

Please also pass this on to your friends and anyone you know that's involved in the design/art world. The more feedback I get the more accurate I would be able to pinpoint what everyone really wants to see. (here's a link to post around: http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=KHIMKF_aeb233cb)

thanks!!

Kwik Surveys

4/29/2010 01:50:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

I got inspired to do this image on my way to work a while back when Lake Washington was covered with fog. Seattle really is one of the most beautiful cities to live in.

3/12/2010 12:11:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my Halo artwork. The magazine cover I did was well received enough that GameInformer did an interview with me. The article covers some of the things I did at the studio, some of my work methods, and a brief walk through of how the cover was completed.

Click here to see the article!

Also, the studio's been slowly revealing more about the game to the public, and that means more concept art for the fans as well. Here are two pieces of concept I did for one of the new multi-player maps in the game. Enjoy!

Also, don't forget to check out the Reach blog for regular updates and awesome artwork by our other concept artists!

3/01/2010 09:34:00 PM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

1/26/2010 07:39:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

The guys at Bungie gave me an awesome oppertunity to work on Halo Reach's first magazine cover. I worked hand in hand with art director Aaron LeMay to create this final image that game informer used for their Feb. 2010 issue. What made this image more challening to execute was the fact that every detail needs to be rendered out for print. It was definitely interesting to see how far I can take the painting in the given time. I will try to give permissions to post some of the thumbnail and sketches to show the though process of creating the picture.

I hope all you Halo Fans like it :D

Link to Magazine: http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/01/08/februarys-two-gigantic-features-revealed.aspx

1/08/2010 08:48:00 PM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

figured to give this a go since i haven't done one of these free form exercises for a while.

12/11/2009 12:27:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

I've decided to work on subjects that I don't normally get to work on at work to balance out my continuing self education. Anyways here's a vehicle sketch I did while watching some wacky chinese talk shows. It was a fun exercise and I learned a couple things while working on it.

12/08/2009 02:11:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

This started out as a joke between me and my friends a while back. We talked about doing concepts of MJ as Peter Pan and Prince as his nemesis Captain Hook. I never really got around to doing it until recently. Too bad now MJ passed on, there's no chance for something awesome like this being realized.

Here are some work in progress shots ,MJ as Peter Pan, Prince as Captain Hook, and Danny DeVito as Smithy. I'll clean these up and keep the updates coming. Oh yea, if anyone knows any good web designers and programmers please throw them my way :)

12/02/2009 10:13:00 PM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

It's been more than half a year since I moved to Seattle. The Seattle rain is definitely a change from the sunny Cali that I've been getting used to since I moved to the states. Work has been keeping me busy most of the time but I'll be posting regularly again from now on.

11/20/2009 12:29:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

After 4 long years at art center. Things are finally coming to an end. Graduation is just a couple weeks away.

here're some establishing shot wips for a intro sequence I'm working on.

3/30/2009 02:05:00 PM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

Trying to be a little more painterly and more speedy. Environments are always a challenge for me.

2/05/2009 11:35:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

Here's a little preview of what is to come in 11 weeks. I've been working on a indie game project leading the concept development for the past couple weeks. We're looking for character modelers. We already got the talented Jason Lin on board. Let me know if anyone's interested!

1/27/2009 06:32:00 PM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

What a crazy term. I'm glad I pulled through in the end. here are all the works I did in the past couple of weeks. I strongly recommend James Paik's environment class for those of you who want to focus on Environments, he's great at both doing it and teaching it.

These three pieces are for a personal project I'm currently working on; creating unique alien worlds.

I did this as an experiment to do something more cartoony and animation oriented. It was a refreshing change from all the dark and moody stuff i've been doing.


These are costume designs for my version of the next Stargate movie


These are costume designs for a female version of the Long John Silver character from Treasure Island.


Fashion illustrations - I haven't done life stuff in such a long time, feels good to figure draw again.


I also got the permission to post some of these older pieces I did when i worked at Crystal Dynamics almost 2 years ago.

12/11/2008 05:24:00 PM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

Here are some quick paintings I did for James Paick's environment class. James taught an amazing technique that is just very fast and efficient. I really enjoyed doing all these exploration pieces.

11/04/2008 02:14:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

Here's an image I'm working on on and off.

Concept: In the future the human face ran out of viable space on the surface of the planet they build huge platforms to have a second layer of real estate. As time progressed into the future, the disparity between rich and poor became wider and wider. The middle class working men has been completely eliminated as a result. The structures underneath this platform would be for poor people who cannot afford to live on the top where there are sun light. Only the extreme wealthy have the money to facilitate living on the surface of the structure.

On the technical side, I'm trying out some new things I've learned from James Paik's environment design class. It's a real eye opener to check out his demos.

11/02/2008 12:59:00 AM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

Minor update with some character / creature concepts.

Here's a preliminary sculpture that was roughed in quickly so I could potentially paint over it on Photoshop.

This rendering was done as a paint over on a photo of another basic sculpture I did. Sculpting the creatures was awesome. It's hard to find times to create tangible artwork these days.


Here's my first stab at photo real car rendering. It was a lot of fun.


a gladiator inspired character I did for costume design class.

10/28/2008 01:44:00 AM
Categories: concept art, costume design, creatures, roman, sculptures, warriors. Author: Alex Chu

Two of my new freelance pieces were recently released on Eddie Yang's site. Oh yea, be sure to look at Eddie's character works, they're bad asssss.

10/03/2008 03:41:00 PM
Categories: Author: Alex Chu

Wow, Finally back to school. It seems like Art Center is such a happier place compared to when i first entered the campus back in 2004.

here's a giant lizard that will appear in my next project. Oh yea, this isn't a dragon, it's just a really big lizard. Come on, didn't your parents tell you that dragons don't exist?!

9/29/2008 01:30:00 AM
Categories: concept art, creatures, dragon, games, illustration, lizard. Author: Alex Chu

I've finally got the time to catch on the blogging trend. Anyways, here are some work that I have been working on recently. They're designs of my version of the sequel to a vintage PC game called Anachronox.

6/28/2008 12:16:00 AM
Categories: anachronox, concept art, games, illustration. Author: Alex Chu