sciam editorial illustration

I was lucky to have an opportunity to paint a digital illustration for a cool article in Jan 2010's issue of Scientific American. Here's a link to the article.



http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=local-nuclear-war

percy jackson and the olympians:the lightning thief

Finished up matte painting for this movie! Go watch it!!

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!

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!

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!

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.

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/

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

wip

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. =)

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.

really different from what i usually do....

quick speedy for the day..finally my stuff arrived from Chicago

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

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.

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. =)

establishing shot for a loading dock

Floods

3 seasons in one location

One of the most fun I had working at Midway. This painting started off half as wide, then Stephan came on over and it got wider and wider and wider. Oh yeah, then the seasons started changing as well. =)

Stranglehold 3d paintover pass

soar like an eagle??

ORTHOS !!

I put this up just to show people that sometimes its not all about finished paintings at work.

squat squat squat

wrecking ball

Destruction

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.

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

MK vs DC Universe painting

busy busy

old paintings I did a while back....

quick little piece

Something I did just for fun

speedpainting for the day

Landscape painting. Just for fun, based off a real place somewhere.

Finished version of the piece below below =)

Changed quite a bit.

Night shot

Here's a painting I've been working on that is an experiment. Basically I built the shapes in 3dmax, and wanted to animate the painting by using projection maps with the original 3d max file. Video clip will be added when I figure the thing out.