Illustration: Reserection Corps CD Cover

I'm pretty proud of this piece because it was for the album cover of my verry own little bro's band: Ressurection Corps (http://www.myspace.com/resurrectioncorpse)

Sketches: Aztaka Ennemies

Here are sketches of some of the many enemies that made Huitzilo's quest a living hell! Center is the notorious wizard Ehecalk. The aim here was to create a universe of characters based on the Aztec culture and mythology, but with a splash of modern day fantasy.

AZTAKA: Level concepts

Here are a few level concepts I did to help create the evil wizard Ehecalk's temple. The whole game is a side scroller based game and the backgrounds where initially supposed to be done in 3D with a painted feel, but after many trials an errors, we soon realized that making these environments in full 3D demanded allot more work to really make them capture the essence of what we had in mind. So, we reverted to painted backgrounds with multiple levels of parallax. The end result looked good, but the only level that lacked the depth given by parallax was the temple, because of the initial direction, and we sadly didn’t have that much time to rethink or redo too many assets.

I learned allot from this experience, in this case;  I think it is better to give more time in pre-production and test out small sections before going on to too many asset productions, otherwise you can get to a point where it’s too costly to go back on an idea and you have to compose with what you got.

AZTAKA: Dracatek

The dreaded Dracatek, the evil wizard's pet dragon that terrorized the villagers and took helpless victims to the wizard so he could transform them into the mindless half-men, half-beast warriors of his dark army. I really had a blast doing this concept!

Sketches: Aztaka main character

Here are a few rough sketches I did in 2006-2007 when I had the privilege to work as Art Director on a small independent game project named AZTAKA for CITEREMIS (http://www.citeremis.com/). Working with limited resources and trying our best to make a dream come true, those where the days ;)

The sketches where the first concepts to help identify the main character of the game, a young half Aztec god named Huitzilo, on a quest to save his people from the grips of the evil sorcerer Ehecalk.

Speed Painting: Nightmares

Theme: Nightmares
Done in 30 minutes in Photoshop

I always found that the thing that scared me the most (and I’m not easy to scare) are freaky children who don’t belong in scary places. I mean, an abandoned house can be scary, but imaging that same abandoned house in which you could see a pale faced, almost emotionless child passing by the doorway... That just makes it sooo much more troubling, don’t you think?

Speed Painting: Insect People

Theme: Insect people
Done in 30 minutes in Photoshop