Tuesday, September 7, 2010

FireFall Announced!

After many years of secrecy to the project, I can finally say what I've been working on this whole time. I've really have enjoyed designing for this project. I've been able to rub elbows with some amazing people (past and present), not mention amazing artist who have touched the project and without their help Firefall would not been as awesome as it is today. My team put in a lot hard work for the announcement and I'm proud of how it turned out. Red 5 are my peeps!

Here are few concepts that I can show for now...


This one was a mural matte for Red 5's GDC booth China in 2007, thing turned out to be 15ft wide or something to that size.
This was the Banner done for the announcement of Firefall at PAX 2010 in Seattle, A group calibration between Bin Zhang, J. Axer and myself. The Banner turned out to be 15ft wide by 5ft tall.  I'll try to post the image later.

Here is our cinematic done by Blur, ferkin kicks butt!!!
 

And Finally here is our Gameplay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-CdQmxH96M

11 comments:

Steven said...

Spectacular artwork.
Would you post about what computer tools you use?

Mariusz Kornatka said...

Very very cool

All the best,
Mariusz

http://www.mariuszkornatka.posterous.com

Jason Scheier said...

Hey brotha Jonathan! Your work for Fire-fall is incredible! Congratulations to you and the entire team on such a spectacular announcement! Best of luck to you, and I know its been a long road trucking, but its surely paying off!

JS

Jonathan Ryder said...

Thank you very much guys, I really appreciate the compliments.

@Steven: Thanks a lot man. I usually just use Photoshop to paint things out, I know others which love painter and sometimes I like using that program for different effects in the paint. Wacom 9x12 is definitely a comfortable size i like painting on. I hope this answers your questions man.

@Jason: Hey man! Thank you very much, I really appreciate the encouraging words.It has been awhile of working on the project and being able to show anything. Lol. But I think the team did awesome both past and present which contributed to the project. Congrats to you as well on your book signings at Dreamworks.

Thanks again man

Elephantiasis said...

Outstanding stuff, mister Jonathan!! Your skill with light boggled me when I started working at Red5 and it boggles me still. Finally the world gets to see the brilliant stuff you've been doing!!

Jonathan Ryder said...

Hey Ant!

Thanks man for dropping by and for the kind words. I'd have to say I was very fortunate to have you there man, you taught me sooo much along with you being such a good friend. I'm stoked for the new work on your blog man!

Jparked said...

absolutely amazing work Jonathan!!!!!

Anthony Francisco said...

Jonathaaaan!
All that hard work was worth the wait. The game is fun and all the images look really cool. I am really happy to see you can finally post stuff up.
Can't wait to see more man :)

sherbuH-Dur-ber-derbider!

Jonathan Ryder said...

@Jparked: Wow man, thank you very much for dropping by and leaving such an encouraging comment, that means a lot coming from you, your work is Nuts!

@Anthony: Hey DUDE!Yah it was definitely a long road to even show work from the project, but I'm totally glad we can show something, I was also stoked we got a chance to work together for the time you were there, definitely a lot of things you shared with me that I'm very thankful for. When are we going to grab a drink?

Tyler James said...

Wow this stuff is incredible! Thanks for sharing. =)

Sean Thurlow said...

Hey Jonathan Jason showed me a link to your art and I was just mindblown. I just got done taking a class with him.

Man...absolutely stunning work! Use of colors...strokes. Gah I'm drooling over your work here. Anyway just wanted to stop by again and let you know how incredible your work is. Can't wait to see more from you and all the best to you.