Concept art portfolio

Hey guys! SnowCastle Interactive  just released Hogworld: Gnarts Adventure in English for an international market on the appstore! We’re pretty stoked about the English voice acting! We have Michael Dobson as the Narrator voice! (The guy that voiced Deathspank! Just sayin´;) )

It’s optimized for iPad2 but it will run on iPad1 and iPhone 4 and 4S as well!

Check it out at the US AppStore! Now go and hang out with Gnart, Bibi and all the others!

3D model, textures and render by Hans Kristian.

Hey guys!

Just swinging by with a quick post. 0One Games released the expansion to “Venture” a little while ago, so I guess I can show these now :)

Here are a few of the character and creature designs I did for the game.

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Hey guys! I posted this over at the company blog as well, but I wanted it up here as well. It’s a concept art piece I just finished for Hogworld. I had a ton of fun doing this one!

Hope you dig, and thanks for checking in!

Hey guys! Just another piece from the Winds of Edéa project. Environment concept art from the main world. Entrance to the Queen’s Garden

Hey guys! I got the greenlight to post some concepts from “Winds of Edéa”, the game we have in production!! Yay!! The game will be presented in proper at Nordic Game in Malmö in May this year.

I do various stuff on the game, so I’m posting a character, some buildings and an environment.

These were all done relatively early on after I started at Snowcastle, so some of these are like 9 months old now I think. My AD has posted some stuff over at his blog as well, so head on over there if you want to see more stuff!

Anyway.. less talk, more art! Hope you guys enjoy!

Oh! Click them for larger versions!

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Hey guys! Just a little bit of happy news!

The studio I work at, Snow Castle, recieved a Nordic Game grant for our passion project “Winds of Edéa”, which is awesome! We’ve gotten a bit of press about it as well, in Norwegian, mind :) Read more over at pressfire, gamer.no and arcticstartup!

We’re very proud and excited! I’ll keep you guys posted as soon as I can talk more :)

My AD let me publish a little concept sketch as well: (click for larger version)

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Hey guys! As always it’s been too long since I posted last. Busybusybusy.. looks like I’m gonna have a little breather coming up soonish though. Gonna pack in some personal art when that happens :)

I’ve been happily making concept art at Snow Castle while freelancing a whole bunch for FantasyFlight Games, an unannounced 3d animated short, visual development on a game for Virtual Game Worlds, and some art for an iPad sci-fi game. All the while functioning as an AD-light for a PC point’n'click in pre production. It became a bit much for me for a while there.. haha.. I’m off the point’n'click adventure as it is now, which feels good actually.. gonna get some time to hang with my girl, do some personal art and like.. not burn out :)

Anyways; here’s some art! I’ve rendered a bit on the pirate dude, and some quick morning sketches I do while on the bus and subway on my way to work :) Still playing around with more toony stuff.. it’s interesting working in such a different style than I’m used to! Having a bunch of fun with it :) Hopefully sometime in the future this stuff will evolve enough to look good too ;)

Hope you enjoy, and thanks for lookin’!

Hey guys!!

It seems like forever since I made a blog post…  sorry about that (and to you guys that have been naggin’ me about posting new stuff; thank you! It helps me keep up! )

I did art on a table top game called “Venture” from Øone Games a few months back, and now it’s out!! It is always awesome to see the product with the art implemented! This is the first time I’ve worked on a table top, so I was pretty stoked to see the images of the finished thing!

I did characters, item cards, a screen for the game master and the box cover!

Here is the box cover:

The Evil Keeper Screen (click for full image):

And some of the characters:

All of the above images are © Øone Games

I had a great time working with Øone Games! Doing fantasy art like this is always fun, and one of the reasons I got into the business!
I’ll be back with more art from Venture later on!

Hope you guys like!

I haven’t blogged since April about what I’ve been up to lately..Jeez..

In May I started working at a game developer called Snowcastle in Oslo. I was hired on to do concept art on their first full length game and I’m having a blast these days! I’ve only been with them a couple of months, but it’s a great studio to work at! Lots of laughs and I’m learning new ways to work (I’ll show you guys results when I can! Promise! ;) ) and the guys I work with are great!

So I’m working full time for them, while doing freelance art like I posted now, collectible card games, and all kinds of cool stuff. Kinda eats into the time I have for blogging, but I’ll try to be good and post more!

I’m also on twitter, if you want more inane day to day stuff.. ;)

Thanks for stopping by people!

Hey guys! I was told yesterday that I hadn’t updated my blog in too long by one of the guys I’m working with on a game, and he was entirely right!

I have been working my ass off on three different gigs lately so there hasn’t been much time for anything but working and sleeping. I really wanted to share something though, and I got the green light from Cosmic Apple to show one of the character designs I’ve done for a movie they’re producing in collaboration with Rowbot Street.  Doing concept art for movies is great! I’ve had a lot of fun working with Dan Rowbottom who is writing and directing the thing. It is currently in pre-production, and it’s already started to pop op on various movie sites around the net, which is awesome! Cosmic Apple is also doing a podcast series during the production. The second one is out now and I’m in it stumbling over words and trying to be coherent about what a concept artist does on a film.. haha.. have a look at it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcz5ly_raven-waiting-podcast-episode-2_shortfilms.

Anyways.. here is the character/creature design I was allowed to show:

Thank you for letting me put it on here, Dan!

It’s gonna be awesome to see the guys I’ve designed walk around on screen!

And the title promised a photoshop tip as well; I was thinking about composing pictures and placing focal points. So I wanted to make a way to get the rule of thirds as a guide when I’m doing the composition sketches and such.

Some of you guys might have already found this one out, but I wanted to share nonetheless.

So here it is; the rule of thirds tool type thingamajig:

Step 1:

Step 2:

And you’re done! You can turn off and on the guides by pressing CTRL+’

The beauty of this thing is the guides will readjust regardless of your canvas size or pixel count :)

Hope some of you found it useful!

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Hey ya’ll!

(Kine; good going with the dry throat there.. made me post again.. hehe… )

the Naica mines in Chihuahua, Mexico that are filled with these awesome huge crystals, so I painted in a few of them to give the images a bit of a supernatural feel (which was kind of the idea about ‘em ;) )

Technical mumbo jumbo follows: They were painted in 140x100cm (like 11000x7000px 200DPI) in PS, and the layered WIP files weighed in around 1.2gb pr image, so they were pretty taxing for the system to work on… Big, dual layered, complex brushes are not a very good idea at those sizes ;)

I made a whole mess of thumbnails for this as well that the customer chose from. Below are some of ‘em…