tonyholmsten

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Facebook page

I now have a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/tonyholmstenart/

You can follow me there as well! :)

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Got myself a Ipad Pro with the pencil, just playing around with brushes and settings, did some silly ships in Procreate. Really liking it so far. 

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I worked as Color & light Art Director, and Colorscript artist on the Welcome to Monster High reboot movie ! Animation house was Axis Animation, and Monster High is a brand by Mattel. Was a great and fun project to work on. Hopefully in the near future i can share some concepts and color scripts!

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Poor district of Verona City , Concept Art

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Some more practice. I like this sketchier, charcoal style more.

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More practice from photo ref.

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Havent posted in ages. Just a photo reference study, spent too much time detailing the face of her but I just could not nail the likeness. Characters are so HARD!!

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/priorgames/verona

Very excited to share some of my concept art that I did for the firefly inspired game Verona, which now has a kickstarter at at the above link. 

If you want to just check out the rest of the concepts that i am allowed to show, you can see them on my homepage: http://www.tonyholmsten.com/#/verona/

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Working freelance, you end up with downtime often and for the last half year I have gotten very interested in learning more about 3D, mostly about the visual part; rendering, shading, texturing with the end goal of it helping me in my work.Been really getting into Architectural Visualisation :) 

 I’ve been diving deep down trying out a lot of render engines, comparing, evaluating which one i should learn. Even been starting to learn Unreal Engine 4, which can produce some amazing results in realtime. Anyways here are some still-life tests , based on photo reference.

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For the last 3 months I have been Art Directing three TV ads for a game called Good Game Empire. The first ad is running now. If you want to see some of the concept art made for it, head on over to my webpage! http://www.tonyholmsten.com

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Some concepts done for upcoming indie game Scrap Mechanic. Their early alpha footage can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3VsYrsvePI

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Oh wow this is lovely.

Torbjörn fanart from Overwatch, super inspired after seeing Jana's fanarts, check them out!  was a lot of fun to start the day

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some quick color & light composition practice during downtime with work, two of them are ghibli painting referenced (can you spot which?) 

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1 hour life drawing of steampunk coffee machine.

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Another personal piece i did for my "Flight of the pelicans" project.I took suggestion nr 4 in my previous exploration of ships, and wanted to put it into a environment. 

Very Porco Rosso inspired, and a bit of Nausica with the aircraft. I love the idyllic italian archipelago setting in Porco Rosso. And subconsciously , it ended up looking a lot like an old game i worked on, Sinemora. 

This one was collaborated with the magnificent Hans "Hanzo"Steinbach, providing me with the foreground mechanic boy. Check out his other awesome character illustrations on his tumblr!

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Exploring different ship designs for my flight of the pelicans project

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Trying to get back into painting after a month's vacation in Sweden. Just a fairly quick warmup piece, inspired by.. .well if you don't know what game it is, then we are truly lost!