chris_grun

Planes of the face

2011-10-11T08:08:00.000-07:00

A quick lighting setup and a little gouche. Still needs work, blacks aren't quite balanced yet.

Quick Paintings

2011-10-08T08:13:00.000-07:00

I did these 3 while watching a movie last night.

R&H people 2

2011-09-29T13:45:00.001-07:00

DeadKnight

2011-08-12T17:21:00.001-07:00

Blowing off some steam.

Quick Sketch

2011-08-11T18:45:00.001-07:00

around 40 minutes

Xmen First Class

2011-07-25T09:33:00.000-07:00

Here's a render from one of our shots from the latest X-men film. I worked as Art Director for Emma Frost, Angel and Mystique for the film. It was used as the cover of the latest Cinefex magazine. I was involved from the start of this character on some of the earliest concept art. I continued on as art director for Rhythm & Hues designing the facet layout and working on her effects development as well as working on individual shots, delivering the final look seen in the film.

Mammoth Head @ the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles

2011-06-29T10:22:00.001-07:00

here's an image showing the main steps of the construction process.

I made the design to go with a foam model based on the time and cost limitations imposed on my by the commission outline. It would have been nice to go with a full clay model and casting a resin head shell but budget alone restricted the reality of such a methodology. I had two weeks to manufacture the head in time for the bookstore opening

One of the main factors in designing the armature was weight and stability. I had to make sure I could mount this in aluminum studs spaced 16 inches apart and break this down for transportation to and from the bookstore.

I purchased a set of mammoth tusk replicas from bone clones. These became the foundation for the sculpture. I chose to buy these instead of sculpt my own based on the space limitations of my work space and the looming deadline.

The location for the head mounting is in an old bank at 5th and Spring in Downtown Los Angeles. The owner wanted to have an antiquated head mount reminiscent of old Victorian/Steam punk style.

The tip of the trunk is about 12 feet off the ground and the top of the head comes to about 20 feet. The Head is approximately 9 and half feet tall 4 feet deep and 4 feet wide.

spaceship

2011-03-27T11:53:00.001-07:00

robot orthos

2011-03-27T11:52:00.001-07:00

game locations

2011-03-27T11:44:00.000-07:00

rough env

2011-03-27T11:43:00.001-07:00

showdown

2011-03-27T11:40:00.001-07:00

unused cards

2011-03-27T11:34:00.000-07:00

rough concept

2011-03-27T11:29:00.001-07:00

Pteranodon Baby

2011-02-19T04:04:00.001-08:00

Land of the Lost character Design. This one slipped out pretty quickly. Only 3 revisions.

Pteranodon Head

2011-02-19T03:58:00.000-08:00

This was a head study eventually used in the final model of the pteranodon. It was in 2 shots of the entire movie.

Crabby

2011-02-19T03:53:00.001-08:00

I only seem to be doing sketches in meetings.... This was cleaned up in a couple of hours over a 15 minute sketch.

dino sketch

2011-02-19T03:44:00.000-08:00

Meeting Sketch done soon after Land of the Lost.

Meetings = Life Drawing

2011-02-01T18:41:00.000-08:00

Nothing better than trying to nail down a moving target. Especially when they notice you staring at them and totally shift positions away from you.

Goat Boy

2010-08-31T09:11:00.001-07:00

Another meeting sketch which I touched up a bit. It's still a little rough on the details but wanted to put it out there before it stagnated.

Old Work

2010-07-26T13:21:00.001-07:00

I did this for Comic Con about 5 years ago. There are some problems with it but I thought I should get it out of the closet.

Wolfman 10/06

2009-10-06T09:34:00.001-07:00

There are some anatomy problems but this was from a long meeting so it's a little more finished than usual. I'm art directing on wolfman so I've wolves on the brain lately.

meeting sketch 10/06

2009-10-06T09:31:00.000-07:00

Rough color sketch off of a random meeting sketch.

Mummy 3 artwork 06

2009-10-01T19:22:00.001-07:00

One of the final iterations of the dragon design. We went through many....

Mummy 3 artwork 05

2009-10-01T19:13:00.000-07:00

I painted a lot of fur concepts to try to get the right balance of fur over anatomy. This was about midway through the process.

Mummy 3 artwork 04

2009-10-01T19:05:00.001-07:00

We had to really detail out the skin underneath the fur so it would come through in the renders.

Mummy 3 artwork 03

2009-10-01T19:01:00.001-07:00

This was an earlier incarnation of the Dragon design. I made expression sheets based on jet li's face.

Mummy 3 artwork 02

2009-10-01T18:56:00.001-07:00

Some more concept art from mummy 3. Trying to see how molten bronze would animate on a running horse. We went through many ideas/versions.

Mummy 3 artwork 01

2009-10-01T18:52:00.001-07:00

A set of facial expressions I created for the animators to draw from.

blue monkey 08/24

2009-09-24T09:32:00.001-07:00

More polishing of the turd.

design doodle 16

2009-09-23T18:51:00.000-07:00

here is some random doodles coming together into a shape. I bring a selection of markers to meetings these days so I don't get bored. There is some bad drawing in some of these, quality is sometimes affected by the way the meeting is headed...

meeting notes/sketch time

2009-09-23T10:14:00.000-07:00

A little more finished meeting note. about 30 mins. She was relatively still so I could spend more time on it. I'm leaving it untouched in photoshop to remind me of what I need to improve on..... I didn't do the 'model' justice, she is a hard one to capture.

20 minutes this time

2009-08-21T09:22:00.000-07:00

20 minutes worth of work, even though it looks like 5.

more characters

2009-08-20T18:45:00.001-07:00

Trying to add a little story to the crappy sketch

10 minutes more

2009-08-12T18:20:00.001-07:00

I swear, no matter how much time I have set aside, I only get to spend 10 minutes at a time on this. Distractions abound.

a little more morning time

2009-08-07T09:34:00.000-07:00

Trying to put this into some kind of composition. I'm sure this is one one of the worst ways to try and design a picture, start with some crappy meeting sketch and bvuild a whole painting around it. Absolutely no planning involved just screwing around in PS.

changin' it up

2009-08-06T18:25:00.001-07:00

adding more to the body

another 10 minutes

2009-08-06T09:40:00.001-07:00

I wish I could spend more than 10 minutes a day on this. Work keeps getting in the way.

10 more minutes

2009-08-05T18:49:00.001-07:00

adding a little more color before heading out.

morning sketches

2009-08-05T09:36:00.001-07:00

Another meeting sketch that I'm slowly cleaning up. 10 minutes a day in the morning.

meeting sketch 07/31/2009

2009-07-31T18:37:00.000-07:00

a quick sketch from a boring meeting

Bat

2009-07-29T13:31:00.000-07:00

Bat Sketch done at lunch. about an hour.

New-ish doodles

2009-06-16T13:37:00.001-07:00

These were the last set of sketches I did while still in school. These haven't seen the light of day since then.

Crickett Design

2008-09-18T13:00:00.002-07:00

Here's a vetoed design for a commercial.

Mantis Heads

2008-09-18T13:00:00.001-07:00

Here are some quick lunch sketches. The top one is just a study trying to figure the crazy colors , the second is a redesign.

Gamestop Commercial

2007-12-09T14:38:00.000-08:00

Here are two characters that I whipped out in a day for a Gamestop commercial.

It aired on G4 recently. The client wanted something remenicient of Unreal Tournament.

Sci-Fi

2007-08-15T09:24:00.000-07:00

Here are some pieces that I recently completed for Gary Meyer's illustration class.

Recent Work

2007-06-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

Here are some recent pieces from my tenure at Artcenter.

Gallery Work

2007-06-27T12:37:00.001-07:00

oil approx. 12 hours

acrylic approx. 5 hours

acrylic quicksketch 90 minutes

oil 20 hours

acrylic quicksketch 2 hours

These are recent paintings from class and personal work.

Creatures

2007-06-27T11:08:00.001-07:00

These were all designed for the Monkey King storyline.

character designs

2007-06-27T09:52:00.000-07:00

Recent Characters from classwork. A Russian fairy tale and Treasure Island.

3d work

2007-06-20T14:33:00.000-07:00

Here is some of my recent 3d tradational work.