Friday, September 25, 2009

matte painting

Sorry everyone, I had to edit this post due to nda and not being able to say which film I'm working on. I'm currently matte painting on a feature film, and I'll be a bit busy, so I'll try to post some stuff when I can. Thanks everyone!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

new personal painting


Had some free time inbetween my vacation and upcoming holiday weekend, so I worked on a personal painting for myself. =) Updated my website with a few new paintings as well. Comments, crits, anything all welcome. Have a good one!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

United States Airforce commercial for Massmarket TV





Hey everyone, this is a commercial I worked on about 3-4 months ago. Commercial just started airing, which is pretty cool. People have been emailing me asking how I work, so here it is. I posted my thumbnail stages all the way through color variations to the final thing.

The final concept painting was the final image used by the matte painter to make this commercial come to life. Thanks for looking!

Monday, June 29, 2009

quick little doodle




A little warm up doodle I did today before I started the grind of a long work day. Hope you guys enjoy it, its really sloppy.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

painting featured on 3d total's frontpage


I'm very excited to be awarded the 3d total excellence award for my loading dock piece, along with being featured on their front page and concept gallery. =)



Take a look.

http://3dtotal.com/

Thursday, May 7, 2009

PAINT RICHARD PAINT

Hello Everyone,

I have a new website.

I'll be posting all my finished professional paintings on my new website, and I will be posting my speed paintings, personal work, and processes here on my blog.

Check out my new site!

www.paintrichardpaint.com

Thanks everyone!

Richard

Friday, May 1, 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

colorful bright place


A very close friend of mine told me I don't have any "happy paintings". This is what I have so far, and hopefully I can take it to a finish real soon inbetween projects. The national geographic image is reference for the palette I'll be going for. Colorful right? Btw, he runs a very well known sushi restaurant..so if he gives me any lip...I'll go in there and tell him how to cut sashimi. =)

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

speedpaint of a sunset




Had some free time inbetween projects, so I wanted to paint a sunset hitting some water, and this is what I ended up with. Hopefully I can take this to a finish later. Some parts of the painting I don't really like, so we'll see when I have time.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

BACK IN LOS ANGELES

BACK IN LOS ANGELES!! Been away from home for 4 years, doesn't feel like home. As soon as my cintiq and rest of my belongings arrive, I'll be able to resume freelancing.

I'm currently open for freelance at the moment. Thanks.

richard1214@gmail.com

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Moving back to cali

So its official, I'll be back in Los Angeles March 14th to freelance from there. I love Chicago, and I'll visit here as much as I can ( except the winter) I have great memories being at Midway for 2 years. I told myself I'm only going to take a full time position if I really believed in the company. I don't know how long I will stay in Los Angeles, because Seattle and Vancouver is tempting me.

Oh also, a close friend of mine launched a record label. If you like house music, check it out.
http://homeschooledmusic.com/ I'll be doing his album cover as well, which is pretty sick.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

speedpainting of the day



kind of annoyed right now because my cintiq and my new monitor contrast is totally off..arrghgg
pretty big update the day before this one. =)

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Southeast Asia



Had to come up with a hidden lair/base of an evil arms dealer in south east asia. It was suppose to have a huge airfield along with military training facilities.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009


This had to have been one of the most challenging paintings I have ever done, usually I'm used to spending 3-5 days for a painting and I never see it again....not this one. This one seemed to never end, being given the size and res for this piece, when I found out how wide it was, I almost jumped out of my seat!

Sorry the painting is so small on here...its the widest Blog allows to post.

Prague panorama in game skydome/matte painting



I did a concept of a painting that was a lot of fun..and after the concept...they wanted me to make a matte painting of it....

Black/white speedpaintings of caves




I love doing these, straight to the point of what I want and makes every art director happy.

country side highway


Had to create a highway in the countryside of Europe for a game.....how boring right?? Had to make the best of it. =)


speed painting of a base I did a little while back