Knight Doodle V1

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.

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 built the costume, I'm documenting the process over on the replica prop forum. --click the link!

Beach Cliff Sketch/Study

Beach Cliff Sketch/Study, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

Photoshop doodle, Mountain Study 4

Mountain Study 4, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

Photoshop doodle/ quick study from reference photo. Drawn in photoshop cs5 with the wacom

Bill Portrait - Photoshop Doodle

Bill Portrait - Photoshop Doodle, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

Study of my brother.
Drawn in photoshop using a wacom intuos 3 tablet

2011 Demo Reel

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

LEGO Star Wars III - "CHARGE" TV Spot

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, projection mapping and environment modeling.



Here are a few photos I took while working on the project
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I'll updated this post with some making-of and some screen shots ASAP.

GoPro Goofin 2010

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. ;)

Panoramics

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

SkySnake Concept for CGHub.com

SkySnake Concept for CGHub.com, originally uploaded by gordontarpley.

Something I did a few months ago. for CGHub.com
I love that site. Lots of really fun challenges. Hoping to have time to do more of them soon!

Digital Set Replacement

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.

Renders in Use!!!

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 translator.

I was most proud of the "Rain Glass". The client sent us a physical sample to use for reference and it took lots of experimenting to get my material to match perfectly. Unfortunately it appears they didn't use the detail shot on their packaging. Bummer!








There were actually a few more packages with my images on them. I'll update this post with them when I find my original versions.

Medieval Alpine City

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

Photoshop Doodles/Studies

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

Zbrush Picture Frame

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.