sam brown

Spacestation edit

2012-01-16T03:53:00.000-08:00

I edited this a while ago but forgot to post it up. Here's the updated version.

Brink bots

2012-01-16T03:48:00.000-08:00

Here are some early concept sketches I did of a robot for Brink. Unfortunately I think it got cut and I wasn't able to finish any of these out.

Imagine FX issue 76

2012-01-15T18:03:00.000-08:00

Here's a vehicle I did for Imagine FX. There's an earlier stage of the process with a different front end too.

Robot sketches

2011-09-13T14:05:00.000-07:00

I've been messing with some new ways to block out robot silhouettes. It was pretty fun doing these so I'll probably do some more at some point.

SF Workshop

2011-09-13T13:09:00.000-07:00

Massive black is putting on another workshop this November. It's an honor to be a part of this mega talented instructor list. Come on out if you can!

http://www.massiveblackworkshop.com/

Some more landscapes

2011-08-18T01:51:00.001-07:00

Here are some more studies I did from photo.

Landscape studies

2011-07-21T23:55:00.000-07:00

These are some landscape studies I did from photos. Some of the compositions are similar to the photos while I changed up things more on others. I'm learning a bunch from doing this stuff so I plan on doing more.

Spaceships

2011-05-15T15:11:00.001-07:00

Here are some spaceship sketches from not too long ago.

Safehouse Atelier show

2011-03-23T03:00:00.000-07:00

I have a painting in a group show over at the Safehouse Atelier. There's a lot of talented folks contributing work so if you're in the area come check it out!

Space station 4

2011-02-18T04:19:00.000-08:00

Here's another space station environment I've been picking at lately.

Robot assembly

2011-02-18T04:15:00.000-08:00

This is some promotional material I've been working on for a project at work. I'll have more coming from this. Hopefully soon.

More tanks

2011-02-18T04:12:00.000-08:00

Here are some more tanks I worked on over christmas break. Forgot to post them until now. I may or may not work on these more. I might just do some new stuff.

Space station 3 edit

2011-02-17T16:35:00.000-08:00

I worked on this image a little bit more to give it some more interest. I'll post up some more new work soon.

Photo blog

2011-01-23T17:49:00.001-08:00

I've been taking a photo everyday since 2006. I put together a separate blog to post them. Check it out if you have some time.

http://sambrownphotos.blogspot.com/

Hot like lava rocks

2011-01-03T04:38:00.000-08:00

Here's another environment sketch.

Imagine FX issue 65

2011-01-02T04:07:00.000-08:00

This is a Sci Fi vehicle I did for this months Imagine FX. The issue is Sci-fi A-Z. I got V.

Environments

2010-12-30T05:29:00.000-08:00

These are some new environments I did over Christmas break. I had fun working on these so I'll probably do some more.

Zombie

2010-12-30T05:25:00.000-08:00

Here's a zombie I did for fun. Hopefully I'll find more time to do some character work.

Old work

2010-12-30T05:15:00.000-08:00

Here's some old work from 2008. All I can say about the project is that it was a large enemy for a side scrolling shooter.

Mobility specs .

Space station 3

2010-12-24T11:12:00.000-08:00

Here's another one of those space station hallways.

New Tanks

2010-12-23T16:15:00.000-08:00

Christmas break! Here are some tanks I worked on recently for fun.

Motorcycles

2010-12-18T04:47:00.001-08:00

Here are some motorcycle designs I did in my spare time.

Old robot edits

2010-11-16T05:29:00.000-08:00

I re worked some of my older sketches. This was actually pretty fun. I'll probably do this to some of my other old work sometime. For now I'm gonna get back onto some more new stuff.

another vehicle

2010-11-04T05:58:00.000-07:00

Here's another vehicle. I might work on it a bit more. It's looking a bit weird to me at the moment.

Vehicles

2010-10-29T04:48:00.000-07:00

Here are some more vehicle I've done in my spare time. I hope to get around to some more soon.

Space station 2

2010-10-19T05:13:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple more space station hallways. I've got a couple more starts blocked in to do some more of these. I want to get into some more open spaces after that.

new bots

2010-09-07T05:02:00.001-07:00

Here are some new bots I've been picking at a little here and there. I might work on these a bit more at some point but for now I'm just gonna move on.

Space station

2010-08-03T02:03:00.000-07:00

Started these with a sketch up block in and went from there. I'm probably gonna be doing more stuff like this in my spare time.

Sketches

2010-07-09T05:57:00.001-07:00

Here are some new sketch pages. These were pretty fun to do and I'd like to do some more. I also need to get to some more environment and character stuff.

Environments

2010-06-04T01:18:00.001-07:00

These are some landscapes and environments I've done in my spare time. These were fun so I plan on doing some more environments as I find the time.

Tranformers 2 concepts

2010-06-04T01:13:00.001-07:00

These are some concepts I worked on for Transformers 2.

Bioshock 2 spear gun

2010-06-04T01:05:00.001-07:00

Here are a few early concepts I did for the spear gun in Bioshock 2.

vehicles

2010-06-01T05:05:00.000-07:00

Some new vehicle sketches. Like the tanks I'd like to do some more variations of these and try to get a greater variety. There are a couple that I like here too.

Tanks

2010-06-01T04:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some tank sketches. I'm going to do another round of these cause I'd like to try and come up with some options that are more organic. There are a few in here that I like though.

Characters

2010-06-01T04:48:00.001-07:00

Here's some personal work. These are ideas for protective bio hazard suits or bio hazard suits with added protective elements on top. Hopefully I can find more time to work on characters cause I had fun with these.

Process

2010-05-13T03:26:00.000-07:00

I wanted to post up some process work and explanation for this robot . There are some team color studies I posted up for the final direction three posts before this. The idea for this guy is that it contains a smaller turret gun it can deploy. Doing this makes him more vulnerable with less paneling and less effective weapons. But the trade off is having the smaller robot to strategize with. The smaller robot has various modes such as a suppressive fire, a defensive mode, and an attack mode that could be directed at specific targets. The robot could be recollected at any time too.

Here were a few different options to start with. There was more work before this but I just wanted to show stuff from this phase of the process.

And some ideas for the turret that gets deployed. The first one is corresponds with the second guy above and the next with the third.

Here are some iterations that show how the panels split apart and what it looks like after the turret is deployed. In the final I had i worked out so the robot would open its legs and panels and a compacted turret would drop out from the front. If you look back at the color studies you can see little feet dangling below the center of the robot.

And some detail shots of some of the faces with open panels. I had fun working on this guy. Good times.

2010-05-06T04:21:00.000-07:00

Some new sketches i did for fun.

Modo

2010-05-06T04:15:00.000-07:00

Here's my intro to Modo. My friend Chris Emond has been showing me how to use the program a little bit here and there. I like it so far. Getting a little bit more comfortable each time I use it.

Team colors

2010-03-27T05:07:00.000-07:00

Here are some color options for a robot from that same project. I was drawn more towards the first group having team colors as accents on black and white robots. Having robot characters bring up some good options for color customization too.

Control points

2010-03-27T04:34:00.000-07:00

These are some props for a project at work. They're computer terminals and platforms for control points. Pretty straight forward I guess. I thought the hanging ones were pretty cool. But the parts are meant to be pretty modular so that if we need one to be grounded it would still look familiar enough for someone playing the game to recognize.

Old sketchup bots

2010-03-25T04:44:00.000-07:00

This is some of my first work in sketchup. I can't exactly remember if the red faction stuff came before this or not. But I wanted to post them up cause I'm getting into learning Modo right now. I'm gonna try to re build one of these guys or try to build something that's similar in complexity. I hope to have something soon depending on my schedule and whatnot.

Red Faction Guerrilla architecture

2010-03-25T04:29:00.001-07:00

Here's some more architecture I did for Red Faction Guerrilla. I had fun working on this project. Sketchup provided to be a very helpful tool throughout this stuff. I'm not sure if all of these ended up making it in the game or not but I definitely remember seeing some of them get blown up when I played it. I have some more architecture I did for the project but I didn't want to post too much.

EDF Sensor Array Building

EDF Prisoner Processing Building

EDF Machine Shop

Dust Heli Pad

Eos Research Comm

Eos Research Lab

Eos Large House

Eos Sky Bridge

Some more robot sketches

2010-03-24T01:31:00.001-07:00

I was digging around on my computer and found some more robot sketches. I guess I have a bunch. Some of the stuff on the last page is from maybe 3 or 4 years ago. And some of those look kinda goofy. I'm getting ideas for some new robots so check back sometime.

InFAMOUS and Killzone 2

2010-03-24T01:22:00.000-07:00

This is some client work for MB. The first is a Junk Gang guy from InFamous. I got up to the point where these guys got introduced but got distracted with work so I still have to finish up that game. The second are some alien cockroach sketches for Killzone 2. And I don't think anything happened with the other sketches. But I had fun doing them.

InFAMOUS Junk Gang

Killzone 2 cockroach

Other

Vehicles

2010-03-22T04:59:00.000-07:00

Here are some new vehicles I did last week. I've been kinda busy with work lately so it was nice to take the time for some personal work. I'll probably work on these guys a bit more at some point cause they could use it.

Adidas Walkaday

2010-03-22T04:44:00.000-07:00

Here is some more Adidas stuff. This is the Walkaday, a Nordic walking shoe I got to work on while i was there. It made it to production for I think at least two seasons. I'm glad I was able to get something out while I was there. I just designed the upper on a pre existing out sole. I have some more work but maybe I'll post it later on cause I put up a lot just now. The last image is all the line art I did for the color department while I was there. I thought it looked kinda cool all overlayed like that.

2008 Photos

2010-03-22T04:27:00.001-07:00

Here are my photo a day photos from 2008. I was originally going to try and take all of them with 120 film. Holga or some old Yashica or Mamiya dual lens cameras my dad gave me. But realized how expensive that would be, defenately don't make enough money to handle that. I ended up just cropping square format from my little point and shoot. I'll get around to organizing previous years and post them up sometime.

More Adidas

2010-03-22T04:21:00.000-07:00

Here are some other side projects I did while at Adidas. I did these between projects to keep busy and get feedback from people while I was there. There are some more concepts I did from each group too.

Adidas CC project

2010-03-22T04:04:00.001-07:00

Here is some more stuff from when i was interning Adidas. I was on the running team during my second internship and this is a personal project I did while i was there. I ran cross country in high school so I wanted to design some shoes with a team in mind. Each runner might desire something specific but the team might want to also have a unified look. I did some shoe concepts for racing and some for training. Each one had catered toward a unique need. You could customize your materials and details according to your price range and also customize your shoe to match team colors if desired. Here are a few of the ones I got some uppers made for. I was able to find some existing out soles from other shoes to put the uppers on. At some point maybe I'll get around to taking some pics. It was a fun project and I learned a lot.

Cars

2010-02-25T03:13:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple new car sketches I did for a talk on vehicle design. I turned this side view I posted earlier in perspective. When i get some time I'd like to get into some more vehicle stuff. Maybe something a little more crazy. We'll see.

Old sketches

2010-02-23T23:40:00.000-08:00

I'm getting together some images for a presentation tomorrow and got to some of my old pages of sketches. Some of this is from about 5 years ago so some of it is pretty bad. I haven't done pages of sketches like this in a while though. Something i need to get back to for fun.

Hot Wheels Technetium

2010-01-26T23:39:00.000-08:00

Here's a car I designed during my internship at Hot Wheels. It was originally for the Silencerz team from Acceleracers but got re released a couple times. I guess that was back in 2004 so these are pretty old. I learned a lot, met some talented people, and had a good time while I was there.

2010-01-26T23:35:00.000-08:00

Here's another render of one of those sketchup bots.

Oil paintings

2010-01-12T12:30:00.000-08:00

Here are some oil paintings I did a few years ago. I'd like to get back into that at some point. I got an old beat up chainsaw to work from.
The pistol and grenade were studies from life. And the wrench and eagle skull were from photos. They were from a stock photo and something from a book. In future studies I'll take my own photos, I just thought those would be fun to paint.

2010-01-10T21:50:00.000-08:00

Here's another sketch up bot.

2010-01-08T11:18:00.001-08:00

Another vehicle sketch. I might end up re doing the front end.

2010-01-07T01:19:00.001-08:00

Couple more sketches.

2009 Photos

2010-01-05T21:55:00.000-08:00

I've been taking a photo everyday since 2006 and decided to post them up separated by month. Here are the photos from last year. I'll post up previous years after I organize them and probably post updates as this year goes on. It's pretty interesting looking back at all this. It helps me remember very specific things that happened.

2009-12-22T20:41:00.000-08:00

Here are a few photoshop studies I did from photos. I wasn't gonna spend much time but just kept picking on them every once in a while.

Red Faction Guerrilla

2009-12-22T17:03:00.000-08:00

Here is some more older stuff I did for Red Faction Guerilla. Thumbnails roughs and final for different buildings and a grenade. I did a lot more architecture on the project. I'll post some up later.

2009-12-15T18:12:00.000-08:00

Some old vehicle sketches along with a new one.

2009-12-09T01:01:00.000-08:00

Here are some more older robot sketches. I guess in progress. I'll probably work on them a little more at some point.

2009-12-05T14:02:00.000-08:00

Here's another one.

2009-12-05T13:24:00.000-08:00

Here's a vehicle done in sketchup. I've been picking on it here and there and decided to post up some progress.

Red Faction Guerrilla

2009-11-17T21:47:00.000-08:00

Here's the Scout vehicle I did for Red Faction Guerrilla. It was pretty fun to blow these up or drive them around in the game. I didn't design the mounted gun. That was done by Kemp Remillard and used for multiple EDF vehicles.

scrap

2009-11-16T21:27:00.000-08:00

Here are some more older bots. Done in SketchUp.

Adidas

2009-11-12T10:49:00.000-08:00

Here's some work i did during my internship at Adidas. I learned a lot and had fun there. It's from sometime in 2005. I have some other stuff I'll dig up an post later.

2009-11-08T17:45:00.000-08:00

Some more robot sketches.

First post

2009-11-06T17:11:00.000-08:00

I'll start by posting up some older work. I hope to update with new stuff fairly often. I'll probably put older stuff up from time to time.