Tom Swogger

The Gallery Was Lacking…

swogdog — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:04:10 +0000

…So I added a bunch of random stuff. Check it out!

The Obsession of Some People

swogdog — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:25:29 +0000

Wow, I’m just amazed at how persistent and organized people can be about something I would find so tedious. I occasionally come across some stuff from past projects here an there that have been dug up from various portfolios and revealed on the web without much subtlety. It’s kind of a running joke that I’m responsible leaking some stuff about a past project at SVS on my portfolio. I just came across a recent blog post about this project, which I thought would have lost interest by now but people keep posting about it. The weirdest thing about it is that it has screenshots of stuff I’ve never even seen! So props go to all the gamers out there who are scrutinous enough to find and compile all this stuff. Consider me amazed.

http://www.unseen64.net/2009/12/19/wizard-wii-cancelled/

Because I’m In A Classic Mood

swogdog — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:19:33 +0000

Yup, another old thing I just felt like posting. I think I did this in Lightwave and it took about 2 hours to render. Ahh Lightwave, how I miss thee. I don’t miss the old slow computers though.

Some FX Stuff etc.

swogdog — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:03:55 +0000

This is just a video of some FX and environment work I did at SVS. The characters, their animations and a few environment elements are the work of other artists.

Sorry for the poor video quality.

The Warehouse

swogdog — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:14:07 +0000

This is some Freedom Force fan art. I rendered the shadows out separately and applied a sloppy cross-hatching effect to them and baked them on. So here’s the result of the poor man’s version of pencil drawn shadows done in Max. I could apply any type of pattern I want for the shadows to get different effects. It’s a little more time consuming, but way cheaper than some fancy render package. I might mess with this some more down the road and see if I can get a quicker pipeline.

I Should Post During The Day

swogdog — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:56:31 +0000

I think my posts get drowned out by the morning Twitter/Facebook news. Ah well…

Here’s another sneak peak at my side project. It’s still just a paint-under like the last one. I promise I’ll have one with a more traditional approach next time. Unless I don’t.

It Burns

swogdog — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:35:43 +0000

This is a tower I did for a side project I’m working on. It burns. There really isn’t much else to say. I just did a quick model in 3DS Max to get some outlines, then the color and details were done in Photoshop. I’m still a little weak on setting up perspective by hand. I guess I’m still in my training wheels stage. My goal is to do it all by hand.

This is what happens when you learn to 3D model before you learn to draw! Draw first, dummy!

Something Old Made New

swogdog — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:44:21 +0000

Sometimes, it seems more often then not, you work really hard on something and it ends up buried in the archives never to be seen again. Well this is one I wanted to rescue.

I made this flamethrower sometime last year from concept for an RPG which was shortly thereafter canceled. This was dropped onto my storage drive to be cleaned up in a nice render sometime down the road. I finally got around to it, so here it is.

Tools used – Photoshop CS3, 3D Studio Max 9

An Art Blog It Is

swogdog — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:27:53 +0000

Well here goes my new experiment. My Art Director at SuperVillain has a pretty sweet art blog cookin’ and he highly recommended I do one. Now, I have a tendency to procrastinate on such things, but this is something that can motivate.

This is gonna just be a place where I can put up some stuff I’m working on from time to time. There’s no real goal or rhythm that I’m planning. My only hope is that I become a better artist and you, the reader, don’t fall into the depths of boredom during the process. I suppose if you do, I’m not improving.

I don’t have any misconceptions about my artistic ability. I struggle in certain areas just like many others out there. I hope you feel free to tear my art to shreds if you so feel inclined, because I promise I’ll post something bad.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you come back!

~Tom