The Art of SketchUp - part 2: Sci-Fi

Bryan K · 8 Feb 2015, 01:07

Remember that big Spaceship!
An epic challenge!

I remember the first time I saw it as well. I was very disheartened thinking I may never be that good. A few years later I was able to make my colony ship.

Bryan K · 22 Feb 2015, 20:17

@ken28875 said:

@bryan k said:

I remember the first time I saw it as well. I was very disheartened thinking I may never be that good. A few years later I was able to make my colony ship.

Keep up the good work, Bryan. It's all about doing what you love with passion and practice, practice and more practice because practice makes perfect I they say.

Have a great weekend!

_KN

Thanks Ken. You too!

ken28875 · 22 Feb 2015, 21:09

@bryan k said:

I remember the first time I saw it as well. I was very disheartened thinking I may never be that good. A few years later I was able to make my colony ship.

Keep up the good work, Bryan. It's all about doing what you love with passion and practice, practice and more practice because practice makes perfect as they say.

Have a great weekend!

_KN

ken28875 · 16 May 2015, 21:53

Hi there,

Long time no post. Got really busy with work. Our game ChronoBlade is coming out soon in the Asian mobile market. I will post some concepts in the near future. Stay tuned.

Here's a personal project called The Last of Them.

SketchUp + Lumion3d + Photoshop

Cheers!

_KN

Bryan K · 16 May 2015, 21:59

Incredible as always.

ken28875 · 29 May 2015, 10:18

@bryan k said:

Incredible as always.

Thanks for your kind words, Bryan.

Have a great day!

_KN

ken28875 · 6 Jul 2015, 04:31

Hello everyone,

Here's a concept of a Troll Helicopter used in Skylanders Trap Team.

Have a great week!

_KN

cotty · 6 Jul 2015, 17:10

pilou · 6 Jul 2015, 17:26

The new Meccano!

andyc · 6 Jul 2015, 20:06

Lovely modelling as usual Ken. And great designs of course. Looks like that was a really fun project to work on.

Cheers

A

ken28875 · 6 Sept 2015, 18:28

@cotty said:

:thumb:

Thanks for the , Carsten. Hope all is well.

@pilou said:

The new Meccano!

Haha, thanks for the comment, Pilou. Bonne journee!

@andyc said:

Lovely modelling as usual Ken. And great designs of course. Looks like that was a really fun project to work on.

Cheers

A

Thanks for your kind words, Andy. Yes, it was a blast working on that project.

When the game shipped, Activision gave me (and all the employees working on Skylanders Trap Team) a box filled with the game and a few extra figurines. My daughter and I have been playing it and Karoline is loving it. It's quite an experience to see your own concepts coming to life in 3D. It's kind of like when I was in architecture, it was great to walk into the buildings that I designed on paper (or SketchUp and Autocad).

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

_KN

pbacot · 6 Sept 2015, 18:56

Great to see this Ken. I wonder how the simple block shapes in SU become carved sculpture in the rendering. Cool work!

ken28875 · 9 Nov 2015, 04:16

@pbacot said:

Great to see this Ken. I wonder how the simple block shapes in SU become carved sculpture in the rendering. Cool work!

Hi Peter, some of the shapes are geos and others are just textures done in Photoshop.

Hello everyone,

Here's something quite different from what I used to do (e.g. environments and vehicles). These are concepts for guns similar to the ones you would see in movies of video games like Call of Duty.

Thanks for viewing.

Have a great week!

_KN

ken28875 · 2 Dec 2015, 17:36

Hello there,

Here are some more sketchUp concepts of guns.

I will texture and render the second image when I have the time.

Cheers!

_KN

hellnbak · 2 Dec 2015, 18:52

Very nice work, Ken. I would kill for your imagination.

I'm surprised that nobody has raised a stink because it's not "politically correct" to even think too loud about guns nowadays. Or anything else for that matter.

pilou · 2 Dec 2015, 18:57

Problem is that the French actualities don't incline to these sort of things!
And alas the following in maybe a real generalized world war!

tadema · 3 Dec 2015, 23:25

Brilliant body of work Ken. The longer I look at your images the more impressed I become! the detailing is fantastic

John

dale · 6 Dec 2015, 14:44

+1, John said it all.

ken28875 · 13 Feb 2017, 05:44

@Steve, Pilou, John and Dale: Thank you so much for your kind words and support. Much appreciated. Apologies for the late reply.

Dear Friends,

Wow, it has been more than a year since my last post.

I disappeared for a while, but don't worry, I am still alive and back with a bunch of new concepts.

In case you were wondering what happened to me, here a quick summary. The company that I was working for on the mobile game Chronoblade ran out of funding and they shut down the Art Department and laid off the Art Director and Concept Artists.

However, as someone once said, when one door closes another opens, I got a new job. But I had to move to Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks, to be exact). I am no longer working in the game industry, but in the entertainment/theme park type of projects. Indeed, the new company is Victory Hill Entertainment and I am currently doing concepts for Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N shows that opened in Paris, New York, Seoul, Las Vegas and Singapore. Check out the website:
http://www.victoryhillexhibitions.com/

I am also doing concepts for the upcoming Hasbro Transformers shows. I can't wait to share some of the latest concepts with you guys.

In the meantime, I can show you all the concepts I did for Chronoblade.

The concepts below are for the introduction chapter of the game.

Chronoblade is a mix of fantasy and sci-fi, therefore I will split my concepts in the fantasy and sci-fi threads.

Thanks for stopping and have a terrific week!

_KN

pilou · 13 Feb 2017, 08:18

Changements but always imaginative creation!