My Oven Tea

Tidy-up

2012-01-30T23:53:00.000-08:00

Here's a couple of old speedies, given a slight tidy - the topics were 'Bathtime' and 'The Chef'.

K.D.A.

2012-01-21T09:59:00.000-08:00

Here's some concept work from my time on Kinect Disneyland Adventures (the images in this post are copyrighted by Frontier Developments Ltd.)

Adrift

2011-11-24T14:46:00.000-08:00

So, over the last couple of years, i've been working on a few different game ideas in my spare time - most of them are just collections of quick sketches, but i've decided to take one of them - a space combat/adventure game, and spend a bit of time on some proper visual development.

Smoosh.

2011-11-16T11:30:00.000-08:00

Here's a few random things that have been sitting on my hard drive for a while...

Canacta-wha?

2011-10-30T15:01:00.000-07:00

Here are some miscellanous bits of art from Kinectimals (cheers to Frontier for giving permission to post these)

Woop!

2011-10-12T06:04:00.000-07:00

*Gasps*

You'll never guess what happened...aliens...*pant*...kidnapped...nine months..!!!

Aaanyway - some doodles!

Handlebot!

2011-01-12T14:45:00.001-08:00

Here's a 3D model that I've been tinkering with for a while, and finally managed to wrap up: some kind of steampunk-y post-apocalyptic survivor riding a half-scrapped army robot...

I had fun with this one - no normal mapping or anything, just a diffuse texture; the cel-shading look was achieved by taking the ambient occlusion lighting pass and putting it through the cutout filter in photoshop, then painting back into it by hand. Anyway, hope you like!

Handlebot (v2) from Mayavan Thevendra on Vimeo.

Happy New Year!!!

2011-01-04T15:16:00.000-08:00

Happy 2011 everybody! Here's a lunchtime speedie to start the year off right - today's topic was 'Resolution'

Apple Juice! For half price...

2010-12-01T11:35:00.000-08:00

Here's some art - A speedpaint, and a page of doodles (must doodle more!)

'Get 'im, Bozo!'

2010-08-02T14:30:00.000-07:00

For you! Some doodles, speedpaints, and an animated gif.

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya...

2010-05-10T15:23:00.000-07:00

You killed my father. Prepare to die.

...On a side note, here's some more art.

Lostwinds Art

2010-03-28T15:49:00.000-07:00

I know, I know, it's been a while, but look - I brought goodies!

Here's some art from a game that I was fortunate enough to work on in 2009 - Lostwinds: Winter of the Melodias.

It really was a dream project for me, getting to work with a small, talented team of people, on a project that really inspired us. I think a lot of that passion came through in the end result - the game went straight to the top of the Wiiware charts when it released, and we scored 9's out of 10 from a lot of reviewers.

It's an awesome feeling knowing that your efforts paid off, and that people are enjoying your work, but you can also recognise that there's still room for improvement...

Anyhow, enough blab, here's the art - three pieces of concept art that I did during production, as well as a piece of promotional artwork. (Thanks to Frontier Developments for giving me permission to post these.)

Third time's a...

2009-06-03T13:43:00.000-07:00

So, the dust has settled (more or less); i'm now living in Cambridge, and for the past three months, i've been working at Frontier Developments (the guys who made LostWinds for the Wii).

The project i'm on is a lot of fun - but it'll be a while before I can show any work from it. So in the meantime, here's some more personal stuff:

2009-03-08T07:47:00.000-07:00

So...anyone keeping up with the games industry news will know that Free Radical went into administration last Christmas - I was one of those made redundant (which means i'm now two for two as far as companies go..!).

I was there for almost three years, and had the pleasure of working with some of the finest guys i've ever met - the Free Radical character art department. I'm not really sure how to do them justice: Imagine a group of people who are developing themselves artistically with such force that you can't help but be swept up along with them, who can make your sides split with laughter on a daily basis, and who make you glad to get up in the morning and go to work. That's them.

So here's another batch, including some work done for the Timesplitters 4 project.

2009-01-12T15:40:00.000-08:00

Here are some more speedpaints, plus some personal work...

Daily Speedpaints...

2008-12-28T04:41:00.000-08:00

I had a great time at Headfirst; it was far from perfect, but I got to work with some really fun, talented guys on a project that was very interesting from a creative standpoint. We researched Georgian architecture and experimented with fusing it with Lovecraftian shapes and motifs, and spent a lot of time developing the look of the project as a whole - it was my first experience with actual production design.

So after the demise of Headfirst, I went to work at Free Radical Design, where I joined in with a daily speedpainting group:

Call of Cthulhu...

2008-12-26T14:11:00.000-08:00

Here's some concept art/3d work from my time at Headfirst Productions, when I worked on a follow-up to the game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - it was called 'Tainted Legacy', and would have been a great game, i'm sure, if Headfirst hadn't gone belly-up. Seriously, it had tentacles, deep ones, giant fish women, these big crab things...

Did I mention the tentacles?