SOOO much! DZ promo work, Game Art Direction, and Illustrations

My buddies DZ asked me to help out with some art for their upcoming Single Launch. I did about a million ideas but these are the two that we went with in the end. The first is the tour poster design (sans text), and the second is the single sleeve. You can hear the single hereThe guys have had a pretty massive 12 months. National Tours, much acclaim, EP releases ect. To give you an idea of what they are like, this is their last music video- Teeth'. Its pretty fantastic.


A personal illustration -

I spent the last few weeks helping out my friend Bill Northcott and studio I Love Biscuits with an up coming game release. Bill has produced some really successful flash games off his own back and with the amazing organisation/programming power of Biscuits things came together quite quickly.
I was asked to define the art direction and design the backgrounds and props. Bill took care of the character work and animation.
These are a few examples of frames from the very long back ground. (in game all layers paralax)

And these are a layout of some of the props that I designed
And last but not least- These are a few illustration/doodles that I played around with between projects as well

Anyway, thats a slice of what I've been up to in my downtime! Would love to hear some feed back on it, so let me know what you think :)

Hopeyoure all well
Alex.

Ever get that feeling...

heya friends,
I've got a week or two downtime at the moment so I thought I'd spend a bit of time on personal projects. This is a photo I took off Hindly street in Adelaide recently. Hopefully I'll get some more time to keep exploring this idea. Would love to know what you think :)

For those of you playing at home, you may have noticed an increase in photos on this blog lately. I bought a new camera over the christmas break it has been a great companion for the last few months. I wont bother you all with my happysnaps and photo nerd specs, but I thought I would mention it in my blog because I know how useful i've found it in my animation endeavours. Panasonic Lumix LX3. Alex stamp of approval.

I am off to Sydney tomorow. If you are a sydney kid, please come on down to the Blank_Space Gallery in Surry Hills sometime from the 13-19th of march. -Smirnoff Black Room Public Exhibition 374 Crown St, Surry Hills, Sydney NSW
One of my pieces is exhibiting there as part of a commision I recently did for the launch of Smirnoff Black. I would love if you stopped by.

Lots of love

Alex.

Libertyn

Hi Blog,
So following my scanning sesh last week, i had a few sketches on my hard drive that i was keen to colour. This was one of them. A drawing that was inspired by an australian Muso, whos name escapes me. the colours are influenced by the photography of Hedi Slimane. Photography is something that always inspires me. Especially portrait photography and photo journalism.

Shhakke

Heya blog,

This is a little sketch i did a while ago, but only just scanned and coloured this morning.

In other news, our film -The Cat Piano won audience choice award for best short at the Adelaide Film Festival. We were very excited. Animated shorts are often over looked at Film Festivals so we were very proud that it picked up the honour, especially on its first festival entry.

Here is the recently released teaser.


The Cat Piano - trailer from PRA on Vimeo.

Check out the HD version on Vimeo.

In other news, Im about to head back up to Brisbane, after my stay here at PRA in Adelaide.It has been great, and Im looking forward to working with these extremely talented individuals again soon.
Big love Blog

Alex

Suday afternoon

I guess I've been thinking about doing this for a while, but Ive always felt a bit weird about it. It took a few hours to get down, and it looks nothing like the subject. Actually I'll give you 5 points if you can guess who it is. Its a pretty obscure reference. the part i liked most about the exersize was looking at the way light changed the natural colour of surfaces. its pretty dramatic.

Speed Paint- Ice Queen

Heya guys, firstly thanks for all the ideas on the last post. The opinions and crits are much appreciated!
This is an idle doodle that i spent a bit of time on this evening. i guess i wanted to play with a lighter and cooler colour pallet to the last one. and for some reason i really wanted a red nose like santa. i should really plan out these things better though, i could have put as much work in and got something A LOT better if i thought more about composition and stuff, but i guess it was just a doodle...

Lotsa Love

Alex!

More of the same

heya blog.
just a more finished version of the last WIP. I guess i feel like this could be better, but im not really sure how to pull it off.

Also, ive started using Vimeo over Youtube. I really like it. you can control a lot more aspects, and you can even host HD. It really seems like a site designed for film/video makers. If your into video hosting and communities, check them out! This is just a more polished version of the ball throw animation I did a couple of weeks ago. the other animation i have mentioned gave me too much head pain, so its taking a holiday. for now :)

Ball Throw from Alex Grigg on Vimeo.

Much love

Alex

WIP Swamp Grazer

Sup blog!
this is a work in progress for an activity over at Satelitesoda. I guess this has about 6 or 7 hours all up. I'd like to pollish it up a bit further, but im a bit stuck at the moment. maybe I'll give it a bash tomorow. 'd love to hear thoughts about it before it take it further though.

lotsa love

Alex

Take that eyeballs!!!

all this concept art stuff is a bit stiff. my reason for focusing on it has recently evaporated, so now i just wanna loosen up a little. this guy was a doodle i did while waiting for some of my students to turn up. i spent a bitta time throwing some colours on it. tell me iff your eyeballs bleed!

anyway, ive had a good friend staying with me in my little hiroshima home for a couple of weeks. it was a good break from arting.

this is something i was working on before she came-
theres only so many times you can paint over something before you you loose the original idea completely. this guy is pretty redundant now. maybe ill pollish it into a finished piece some time.

love
alex

Jungle time

this is me playing with some brushes in photoshop. i originally had a creature design in the center but i pussed out. i was too caught up in how the light would play and the design of the creature suffered. its a hard business trying to think of light, design, composition and pose all at the same time. i need to practice!!

i might take this further soon. if i can think of somewhere to take it. i was thinking of putting a giant stone sculpture/ancient city where the mountain is now, or maybe a hunter in the middle ground looking into the distance. we will see!