Casey Matsumoto // kein

NEW WEBSITE

2011-09-25T22:39:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I finally finished my website so here's the link: CASEYMATSUMOTO.COM
Head on over and check it out!

2011-09-16T15:28:00.000-07:00

Here's an awesome video of the RED ENGINE GALLERY that my friends and I contributed in.
Thanks to Steve Jung, Jung Park and the crews of Epson for sponsoring the show. It came out professionally amazing.

Imagine FX Issue 71

2011-07-12T01:02:00.000-07:00

I've been very busy with freelance and work at Konami but I have some good news for you guys! I've been fortunate to have one of my pieces issued as a step-by-step 2-page tutorial in the infamous UK digital art magazine, Imagine FX on their July 2011 issue 71. Check it out at your local bookstore (Barnes and Nobles, Borders, etc.)

ImagineFX Issue 71

RED ENGINE GALLERY SHOW

2011-06-07T20:21:00.000-07:00

I'm having a show with some of my amazing friends at a concept design school, Red Engine Studios. Come on by and enjoy the show!

July 16th, 2011 8PM - MIDNIGHT @ RED ENGINE STUDIOS
1820 Industrial St. #230 Los Angeles, CA 90020

2011-03-03T20:56:00.000-08:00

2010-10-14T17:28:00.000-07:00

I've been fortunate to take Bryan Wynia's class at Concept Design Academy and has helped me to model quickly and efficiently like never before. ZBrush is a great tool to create organic concepts right away to achieve details and understand how to make character more lifelike and dimensional. Here are some examples from the class. The bottom image is Angel of Death from Hellboy 2. I've been waiting such a long time to sculpt this.

2010-09-20T16:34:00.000-07:00

Quick 1hr speedpainting to loosen up.

REVAMP

2010-08-03T06:33:00.000-07:00

Thanks for stopping by!

I know it has been a long time since the last post. Freelance work has kept me busy. Good news is I'll be graduating this upcoming fall so keeping that in mind, I'll try to make some time updating this blog. For the following few weeks, I'll be posting new works and making few changes on this blog. This site will be a temporary portfolio showcase until my personal website is finalized. Sorry for the wait.

Once again, thank you for taking your time viewing my blog. :)

ENT

2010-03-18T07:36:00.001-07:00

Stuffs I did before bed time.
I've been revamping my website page lately and working on freelance works from Japan.
I'll be busy but will post some sketches if I have the time to do so.

Azazel the Corrupt

2009-11-01T15:50:00.000-08:00

I was watching Paranormal Activities and there was a topic about demonology occult in the movie. I'm not really into occult because there's a lot of hoaxes and conspiracy in spiritual entities. There was a lot random demon names like Azazel, Lucifer, Belial, etc. Each demon classifies the seven sins in which I did not know about. Lucifer as pride, Mammon as greed, Asmodeus as lust, Leviathan as envy, so on.

I did some trial-and-error designs for the eyes. The first one came unattractive; it didn't grab much attention. The second design attracts a lot in my opinon. I toned down a bit and gave a red eye on the third to see whether or not it improve from the previous one. The fourth would be what I called, "Standard version," in other words, the median of all 5 designs. The last was more like the Lich King with the flashy eye glow from World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King.

I'll probably do a turnaround for this guy if I have time. lol

2009-10-19T21:40:00.000-07:00

I had a lot of fun doing this piece. It may be my first armor design post on this blog. I've been putting up a lot of photoshop stuff. I need to start posting some pencil sketches next time.

*edit*
I miss painting figures.

Journey

2009-10-09T15:52:00.000-07:00

I did this on my spare time while currently interning in Japan. I'm pretty sure most of you designers and artist are aware that you have little time working on your personal project. As for me, I tried to spend this as much as I can and took me roughly about 5 hrs total rendering it on and off. :(

I'll post a newer draft of this piece later during the week (if I have time).

Here's a second one:

2009-08-28T16:14:00.000-07:00

Sketch for the day. Jungles are hard to paint sometimes. Especially the subtle lighting.
Note to self: I gotta throw in some character designs next time.

Tomb Raider

2009-08-12T19:30:00.001-07:00

This is my take on Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Pirates of the Carribean theme

2009-08-11T23:29:00.000-07:00

My teacher and friend, Jung told me that it's better to understand how to create a mattepainting because it'll be easier to go back and speedpaint without having trouble with lighting and perspective. I was watching Pirates of the Carribean this afternoon and somehow while I was creating a composition, it happened to turn out just like it. lol

Cheers!

P.S. I don't know if it's my monitor's calibration for my both my PC and Mac, but it seems a lot brighter on PC than Mac. The darks is totally washed out.

Note: Added ClustrMaps today.

Forest Walk

2009-08-11T07:10:00.001-07:00

I had the urge to do a quick speedie for about 5hrs. I was reading a small article based on "Lewis and Clark Expedition." It was quite intriguing that the expedition was to learn more about the Northwest's natural resources, inhabitants, and possibilities for settlement and that Lewis and Clark were not the first explorers to travel west. They did not achieve their primary objective of finding a waterway across North America. For this, I thought it'll be pretty cool to come up with some exploration or an adventure in an abadoned sacred forest.

2009-07-26T18:32:00.000-07:00

Some more speedies from CDA class with Cecil and Jung.
I should do a lot of these jumpstarts. From the class, I learned a lot by saving one comp then taking further until I hit another "bump." So that way, when I compared what I saved I should understand what worked and what didn't. Could it be the composition? the lighting? focal point? or even mood?

SF

2009-06-21T16:22:00.000-07:00

These are some rough speedies I did for Sunday night class at CDA with Cecil and Jung. I highly recommend this class for those of you who need to get their environment designs polished up. Everybody in that class is very talented and I feel like I need do more of these to catch up. I will be back later to post some character designs I've been working on. Stay tuned!

Cast Studies from INCREDIBLES

2008-10-25T06:13:00.000-07:00

Rendering studies of casts from the movie, Incredibles

thumbnails for vehicle design

2008-09-18T18:23:00.000-07:00

I did some random swirls with a pen on my left hand and came up with interesting shapes. Maybe I'll grab a few and put them in 3/4 perspective.

shiny

2008-07-31T14:12:00.001-07:00

20 min doodle. A random, weird shape I found on my desk.

2007-02-01T08:03:00.000-08:00

QUEEN MARY

2006-10-09T04:15:00.000-07:00

It was fairly an overcast day. Not much lighting. I didn't really like how my painting turn out because the whole value became really flat and turned out to be a difficult piece. I tried to pull it off by using a lot of different shades of grays and darkest darks and stayed away from using too much blings (highlights). Afterwards, I took a photo as a reference for the homework for Robh Ruppel's Digital Landscape class. Overall, it was a fun. Cheers!!