Alice: Madness Returns Teaser 2

Second teaser for this upcoming EA game is online. Done at Passion Pictures and directed by Shy The Sun. I got my usual job on this piece - I did a couple of color scripts together with Stu Hall who supervised the look on the project and then I painted London backgrounds based on those scripts. I also painted the Puppet Theater cut-out set which unfortunately you can't see in full glory in the final cut ;). I hope I'll be able to post original color sketches and mattepaintings soon! Meanwhile watch the teaser at the game official website or at YouTube.

"Dog of Zone II" making of

The "Dog of Zone II" making of tutorial that I wrote for CGSociety has recently been released. I hope it'll be interesting read for everyone who asked me or was wondering how I created this image and other similar ones from "Postcards From The Zone" series.
Tutorial appearance is connected with the forthcoming release of Ballistic "Expose 8" artbook in which "Dog of Zone II" got one of Master Awards and is presented as a 2 page spread :)
Click the image below to read the tutorial or preview "Expose 8" book here.

Alice Teaser

Latest project I worked on at Passion Pictures is online. It's a teaser for an upcoming game "Alice: Madness Returns". I got to do a color script and a background mattepainting. Enjoy!

Exhibition opened

The exhibition opening event is behind me and it went very well. For me at least. Thanks a lot to everyone who attended. Here's a few pics of my works hanging:

Juz po wernisazu, ktory (przynajmniej dla mnie) wypadl dobrze. Dziekuje wszystkim, ktorzy przybyli. A ponizej kilka zdjec wiszacej ekspozycji:


A few pictures of the actual event by Jacek Topolski and Jakub Kaszuba:
Pare zdjec z wernisazu autorstwa Jacka Topolskiego i Jakuba Kaszuby:

postcardsfromthezone.com

I set up a dedicated website (using viewbook album) for "Postcards From the Zone" project. You can see all works from series here. Watching fullscreen is definitely recommended as is bookmarking it ;). I'm going to expand the site by adding new works as they come so there is a reason to come back to postcardsfromthezone.com from time to time.
I added a widget with "Postcards From The Zone" album to the blog as well (look to the right -------->).

Pocztowki ze Strefy - wystawa / Postcards From the Zone - exhibition

Moja pierwsza wystawa indywidualna bedzie miala miejsce w Galerii Miejskiej w Tarnowie (Rynek 4) w dniach 21 maja - 15 czerwca. Wernisaz 21 maja (piatek) o 18.30.
Ekspozycja sklada sie z 6 duzych grafik i 5 malych rysunkow. W programie wernisażu jest prezentacja pokazująca produkcję (tzw. making of) teledysku Gorillaz "El Manana", projekcja krótkiej animacji obrazującej proces tworzenia jednej z grafik oraz losowanie mini-albumów, o ktorych mowa w poprzednim poscie. Ponizej prewizualizacja czesci ekspozycji. Serdecznie zapraszam :)

My first solo exhibition will be held at the Town Gallery in Tarnow, Poland between 21st may and 15th june. The set consists of 6 big prints and 5 small drawings. During the opening event I will show a presentation on making of Gorillaz "El Manana" video and a short animation showing the process of creating one of the exhibition graphics. Also, a few of the mini-albums I wrote about in my last post will be given away to public. See a rough previz of a piece of the exhibition below. Please, feel invited if you are around :)

An artbook at Blurb

I put together a little album (40 pages) with my recent works using services provided at Blurb.
I received my printed copies just a few days ago and I have to say the overall quality is great, even on the cheaper paper. I've always been afraid of distorted colours and lost details but I'm really happy with the effect this time.
It's very interesting exprience to see a lot of your work presented as a whole piece. It was also a challenge to make it look as one. A good way to reflect upon yourself, seeing a couple of years worth of work on a piece of paper that you can browse through in a few seconds ;)
Here's a photo of actual printed copies and interactive preview of the book (fullscreen recommended).

Artbook by Lukasz Pazera | BOOK INFO

Dog of Zone IV

Fresh meat from the Zone...

Dog of Zone III

Yeah, I know, it's been a while since last update. So, without wasting more time, here goes one more Zone doggie to keep series alive. This time it's a bit more mixture of 3d (the creature) and 2d (background, ink on paper). Enjoy!

Liquidator IV

Something a little bit more human this time...

Dog of Zone II

Experiments continued...

3d experiments on animals - Dog of Zone I

I got back to using 3d as another technique for my artwork. Here's one of first experiments I've done so far. I hope it's going to evolve into larger series and be a part of bigger project in future.
A few years of gap in using 3d apps made for a nice surprise of what apps like modo are capable of these days. 3d is fun again! Now I only need to go 64bits to be able to push even more polygons into my images ;)

Crawl Back In

My artwork "Forest" will be used as a cover image for the swedish metal band Crawl Back In newest release titled "Hang all hope from the nearest tree". Yeah, I'm a fan of such nice and happy tunes too ;) so I'm looking forward to see the real thing. Especially that it'll be 10" vinyl record.
Check out the cover and music at band's official website.

Coca Cola Zero Happy Kingdom

New Passion Pictures project that I took part in is online. It's 60 seconds spot for Coca Cola directed by Pete Candeland and art directed by Mario Ucci. My contribution was rather small this time. I worked as matte painter on skies (yeah, again) for the "happy" section. I worked on layouts and color palette but most of the final look is done by Kim Frederiksen and he was the main painting guy on this job.
Some more info, video and full credit list are on Motionographer.

Sketchbook

I put a few little sketches and thumbnails in the new Galleries/Sketchbook section of my website. There are studies and original ideas for some of the finished pictures from personal gallery. Have a look if you like "behind the scenes" stuff.
I've never really paid too much attention to how I start my work so I found it quite interesting to dig those sketches out.