Yesterday, Apple finally announced the iPad tablet that people have been speculating about for several years. I have created a number of concepts based on the rumors and conjecture, amongst them is this one I created for MacFormat magazine back in March/April 09.
I just struck me as very close to the new iPad with keyboard dock!!?
Maybe a gift wrapped, full spec iPad with a not from Steve Jobs and Jonathon Ives would be in order!? 
Wishing a Merry Christmas, and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year to all! 
This image, or at least one like it has been in my mind for literally years now. Probably inspired by a couple of NASA’s space colony concepts of the 70’s, definitely by Ben Bova’s novel ‘Colony’, and obviously to an extent by Greg Bear’s ‘Eon and Clarke’s ‘Rama’ series!
Here is a link to a larger version
At any rate, after getting the newest version of Cinema 4D, with render instances, and speeded up sub poly displacent, I did a couple of tests with large amounts of trees, and then started to put this idea to the test.
Commissioned by MacLife magazine, this is the latest conceptual version of an imagined Apple Tablet, believed to be coming soon.
Sunday Times used one of my Apple Tablet concepts for the front page, as well as an insert of their InGear section on Sunday 16th of August.
My current project - 3DWorld asked me to create a tutorial on animating a spider for a future issue…
I was given the option to simply find a suitable ready made asset to animate, but instead decided to dive in to ZBrush. The final 2 million poly model was exported at a lower poly count to Cinema 4D, where the high poly displacement map was added, and the texturing and animation were then completed! - I’m just wrapping up the tutorial now, and when the issue goes live, I’ll also add the animation to the site - it’s looking creepy! 
Finally, after a few weeks without time or inspiration, I have finished my first full digital painting on the Wacom Cintiq. I am very pleased with the final result, although I am having some indecision on the background colour - either cool grey as here, or the original warm orange tones!
Watch this space for more paintings soon
Recently commissioned by MacFormat magazine, this Apple NetBook concept is based on the belief that the innovative company is working on such a device, and assumed to be coming out this year.
The illustration has been doing the ‘blog’ rounds this last couple of weeks, and like other concepts I have developed, seems quite popular overall!
I have advertised in various source books for a few years now (American Showcase, PLAY), and have decided to give Directory Of Illustration a go this year. The book won’t be released until early next year in fact, but hopefully it will open up new client possibilities. This is my page!
Feeling the need to explore old skills, but using the digital tools I have become so familiar with, I have been trying out a Cintiq 21UX from Wacom. This device works like any other Wacom pen tablet, but with the enormous advantage of also being a screen that you can draw and paint directly onto within the likes of Photoshop and Painter etc…
… this thing really is stunning, and has had me so convinced that I am really painting again (after at least 10 years not doing it!), that I even tried to smudge the paint with my finger tip at one point, and blow away any dust (from pastel/pencil) on another!
This is a crop of a full body portrait I have been wanting to paint for a number of years - still a work in progress, but the face & hair are mostly done now.