tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68398788051462241172012-01-22T22:16:34.210-05:00Where I try to keep more in-depth coverage of my art projects.GordonTarpleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154503679791915571noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839878805146224117.post-82126594371829823122012-01-19T16:41:00.003-05:002012-01-22T22:16:34.218-05:00

Scribblescrabble, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.A couple half-way-done concepts for some matte paitings. Wanted to save a version before I change them more of a night time look

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Deus Ex Costume I just finished work on. It's being use in this..http://kotaku.com/5877407/whoah-what-is-this-deus-ex-movie-it-looks-incredible As soon as I have a chance I'll update this post with a link to a work-in-progress page, probably on the replica prop forum. Moe Charif, all suited up!

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Knight Doodle V1, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.Noodling around in Photoshop for the first time in a while. I'd like to do a little more to this so there may be an update in the future if time permits.

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Sorry for the hiatus. I've been nerding-out and building an Iron Man 2 "War Machine" costume. Now that Halloween past and the mad-rush to get the suit to a wearable level is out of the way I'll be posting some more art. My wife got me an iPad and I'm learning some of the drawing/painting apps right now and they seem really fun so expect updates on that. If anyone wants to know more about how I

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Beach Cliff Sketch/Study, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

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Mountain Study 4, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.Photoshop doodle/ quick study from reference photo. Drawn in photoshop cs5 with the wacom

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Bill Portrait - Photoshop Doodle, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.Study of my brother. Drawn in photoshop using a wacom intuos 3 tablet

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I put some of my clips together here. I'll add a shot list soon.

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This is a Lego Star Wars III commercial I got to work on. Being that I am a HUGE Star Wars fan this has been one of my favorite projects.Thanks to Chris and Chad from The Core LA for hiring me for the job and David Luong for recommending me. Also, thanks to LucasArts for posting this on youtube!  BTW, looks better set to HD and full screen!  For this project I did the matte painting,

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This isn't exactly art related but I did take all the video and edit the footage so figured I would share A small sample of the ridiculous amount of clips taken with the GoPro during 2010. 2011 resolution, get away from the gulf coast of Florida and get some better surfing vids. ;)

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I've been digging through all my old photos and stitching up lots of panoramics. many more to come, i'll update this post regularly!The images link to my flickr page right now but if you want to see where they are on the map, check out www.panoramio.com/user/gordontarpley

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SkySnake Concept for CGHub.com, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.Something I did a few months ago. for CGHub.comI love that site. Lots of really fun challenges. Hoping to have time to do more of them soon!

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Scene was match moved, then entire background and contestant podiums were recreated in 3d studio max and rendered with vray. keying and roto done in after effects.

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Saw a few images I made at Lowes. Renders in Use!!!, originally uploaded by gordontarpley. This is the actual image. This was done about 4 years ago but was one of my better images at the time. Everything was modeled in 3d Studio Max with the exception of the shower unit, which was supplied by tthe client and made in Pro Engineer, sent to us and merged into 3d studio max using Npower

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Alps Cottage 08-25-09, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

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Quick doodles/landscape studies drawn from reference images using wacom tablet and photoshop

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This was something done really quickly for work. The frames would be all the way across a room from the camera so i didn't go all out with the detail, just enough to give an impression of carved frames. The actual final frames used in the scene had a few more details added as a bump map in 3ds max but were so far from the camera and eventually tiny in the render that this ended up working nicely.

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Haunted Chateau Matte Painting, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.another older work done almost 2 years ago. this one is all photo manipulation and some light hand painting to create some details such as holes in the roof with rafters showing and reflections on windows and a few hand painted reflections as highlights here and there... Quick build-up of my Haunted Chateau matte painting

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Another one being posted out-of-order. someday i'll be all caught up and my posts will become chronological... maybe i can change the date on this or something.. This is my (winning!) entry for CGChannel.com April 2010 matte painting challenge themed "Alice in wonderland" my work-in-progress forum is here CGChannel April 2010 Matte Painting, originally uploaded by gordontarpley. here's the

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Based on the time constraints, I'm probably getting in a little over my head with this one. I've got some plans to work out still with a few elements which right now seem like the method of execution may be slightly convoluted. I'll see if I can work out something better and try to explain it all when I'm finished. This vid is still a work in progress but I'm putting it at the top of this post

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Submitted Final took on a little too much this month and didn't have the time to give this the TLC it deserved but overall, not the worst thing I've made so I'll go ahead and post it! Port Concept 1, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.CGChannel.com Matte Painting Concept/Work-in-Progress, here's a quick concept made by doing a paintover of a photo i found online. another challenge

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Final (and winning!) submission for the cgchannel.com digital sculpting challenge for August 2010 Low res test. i'll be rendering more frames for this over the weekend but i need to processors for work right now. probably updated sunday night.. done for cgchannel.com august, 2010 digital sculpting challenge titled "struggle" work in progress thread here... http://forums.cgchannel.com/

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3d integration into photo on Vimeo by Gordon Tarpley, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.Original plate is a photo I took at Ruby Beach in Washington. 3d elements were created in 3d studio max, rendered with vray. composited in photoshop. How it was made... I started with a photo I took at Ruby Beach in Washington state The background image was dropped into 3d Studio Max where the number 3

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Island Temple Matte Painting, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.This is my entry and runner up for www.CGTantra.com May,2009 matte painting challenge titled The Ancient TempleCreated using 3d studio max, vray, mudbox and photoshop. Entry and runner up for www.cgtantra.com "Temple" matte painting challenge for May, 2009skull model, started in 3d studio max (top) and detailed in mudbox (bottom)

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The 5 fugitives of the Shoalin Temple Matte Painting on Vimeo by Gordon Tarpley, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.My entry for cgchannel.com june matte painting challenge. not as much time this month so this was done really quickly. Done for CGChannel.com June, 2010 Matte Painting Challenge concept 3d model overlay

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MadMax Pano Matte Painting, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.This is the Pre-Effects version of this matte painting this is the original plate supplied by Jonathan Berubeand a screen grab of some of the 3d elements the video clip is a work in progress that will be updated as soon as possible CGChannel Matte Painting WIP from Gordon Tarpley on Vimeo.

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Winning Matte Painting for cgchannel.com matte painting challenge see more of the process here forums.cgchannel.com/showthread.php?t=11987 Tony Stark's Mt. Pilatus mansion, CGChannel May matte painting FINAL, originally uploaded by gordontarpley. Camera Move UPdated WIP from Gordon Tarpley on Vimeo. Original sketch for the architectural layout of the house. Since this image was to be based

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Gordon Tarpley Accelerate FINAL 06-29-10, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.my very quickly done entry for the www.cgsociety.org "accelerate", syd mead inspired challenge. entry post is here http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=309&t=896965 this was done with a base model in 3d studio max then painted over almost completely by hand using a wacom and photoshop.

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It's Easter Sunday and I'm hiding out in the office drawing a beastie for the www.cghub.com creature planet challenge. I have what I think is a pretty good idea but I ended up getting off track and overworking the background causing my subject to get lost in all the detail. It's always painful for me to cover up drawing that I'm relatively proud of, BUT it's for the sake of the piece so I'll have

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I'm hoping this will become a more in depth way of keeping up to date with projects. art, music, etc... than the random Twitter blurbs.At the moment I'm working on a cghub creature concept challenge. i'll post updates for this as i have them. at the moment, this is what it looks like...

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