Murph

beard

2012-02-13T01:08:00.000-08:00

tryptic faces of death

2012-01-28T16:52:00.001-08:00

this is an example of what happens when I start painting with nothing in mind. They never turn out how I want, and I wake up crying in shame, filled with regret.

but they're relaxing and a good way to mess around with color and all that stuff, i guess.

lunch monkey

2012-01-20T22:14:00.000-08:00

a random doodle done over the course of a couple lunches

Last of the weapon dumps

2012-01-17T00:20:00.001-08:00

Okay. This is the last of the weapons, hahah. Sorry some of them are super low-rez.

Doodle and Deathwing

2012-01-13T00:13:00.001-08:00

Just a quick doodle and a few Deathwing weapons from patch 4.3

a whole mess of stuff

2012-01-11T01:16:00.001-08:00

Just a few concepts and icons from when I first started at Blizzard last year. The Hour of Twilight patch for WoW just recently came out. There's a bunch more, I'll try and post when I'm not so tired. :D

Infinity Blade 2

2011-12-18T14:56:00.001-08:00

whoaaa it's been a while since I posted. Hopefully I can get back in the habit.

While I finished up school, I had the chance to work on Infinity Blade 2 with the guys at Chair. I did a few character turnarounds based on concepts by Adam Ford and the other artists there. It was a lot of fun and the game is amazing (it just launched so go buy it). Here's a sampling:

Throne of Tides

2011-10-26T20:59:00.000-07:00

Here's a (female) Worgen priest for the upcoming Throne of Tides TCG set.

zomborc doodle

2011-10-23T09:40:00.000-07:00

Blizzcon just wrapped up, it blew my mind with awesomeness.

girlface

2011-10-04T22:33:00.000-07:00

doodled this.

Sir Dumpsalot

2011-09-24T00:55:00.001-07:00

A dump of mostly random unfinished sketches etc. Also a robot I made for Spacetime Studio's Star Legends game, which is way fun.

Keeping super busybusy with work....... but enough about me... how are YOU??

TF2 soldier et al

2011-08-26T00:17:00.001-07:00

Well this has been sitting around for way too long, I just wanted to paint up the soldier from Team Fortress 2. I lost steam on it and it got too boring, but I figured I'd post it anyways:

In other news, I had the honor of having a little spread in ImagineFX! Aside from the fact that they 100% made up a quote that I said, it's a big honor indeed.

I also did a little 10 question interview for the Uber Artists blog, click HERE to read it

Also, some people have been asking for that pencil brush I made in photoshop. click HERE to download it.... hopefully that works. It might take a little tweaking on your own machines to make it look correct.

uhmmm no other art I've created is currently available to post. Due to terribleness.

Lumos

2011-07-24T12:49:00.000-07:00

quick painting of a sketch i did of Harry. Hopefully the colors look right, my Cintiq has a mind of it's own.

I read the first Harry Potter book when I was 13. The books and movies are a big part of my young adult life. Now that I've seen the final movie, I guess that means it's time to grow up and stop acting like a child, right?

Naaaahhhhhhhh

treasure pony and terraria

2011-06-28T01:16:00.001-07:00

Dearest friends!

This is a treasure pony. Don't see the treasure? LOOK AT HIS CHEST! Treasure chest!!1 get it? no?

Me and some of the office bros have been playing Terraria the last couple weeks. This is a tribute. (Also I practically traced this pose from someone else, but I can't remember who).

Also, I finally made a photoshop brush that looks something like a pencil. behold:

I left my sketchbook at work, but once i retrieve it I shall scan in some stuffs. Work is going great, family's doing good.

On a more personal note, and since some family and friends follow this blog expecting periodic updates on how we're doing, our little 3 year-old Max was just diagnosed with Autism, somewhere on the spectrum. He's always been a little behind, and has a strange savant ability with reading. So even though it hasn't come as a huge surprise to us, it's just relieving to put a name to his delays. He's really great and isn't a difficult child in the slightest.

AAAAnyways! be back in a couple days with more stuffs, hopefully!

new card, new life

2011-05-16T22:47:00.001-07:00

So from what I can tell, the new TCG set The War of the Elements is out, so I can post this:

I'll have at least one more on the way..... these are way fun and I'm learning a lot from doing them.

I keep looking around for more art to post, but mostly everything I see is still under some sort of NDA... once we get completely settled here I'll need to start doing a lot more!

Speaking of which, California is going gooood. The family is doing pretty good so far, and I'm back at Blizzard, where I belong..... it's an honor working with the incredible artists around me, and I'm definitely feeling the pressure to get better. Sempre em frente, AMIRITE?!?

Blizzard round two. FIGHT!

2011-04-12T15:04:00.000-07:00

I recently accepted an offer to work as an artist at Blizzard on the World of Warcraft team. I start next month and am extremely excited! It's a dream come true, I feel so lucky to have this chance. I owe so much to so many people at BYU, Blizzard, Avalanche, online, and to my friends and family.

moar doodles + wow card

2011-03-05T19:19:00.000-08:00

My first WoW card was just recently published, so I can put it up here now. I don't love it, but I learned a lot, so....yeeeeaaaaahhhhhhh. Plus, some doodles!

Trash

2011-02-24T20:22:00.000-08:00

well i've been pretty busy with school and freelance work, so I haven't had much time for dedicated personal projects. here's some trash I did between more important stuff:

a low poly ogre head:
some of the ugliest most awkward sketches I have ever done:

an art test, feel free to guess which studio:

AKIRA

2011-01-09T01:44:00.001-08:00

joined in with Jake and Anthony on some Akira fan art this week. This is takashi, the creepiest little man-monster-child esper in all of neo-Tokyo.

I got some 3d stuff brewing, should be coming up soonish!

also, I did a little interview for the folks over at 3D Coat: Click Here

cataclysm

2010-12-28T00:49:00.001-08:00

apparently deathwing has taken roost in my brain and all I see is magma and broken earth.

secret of mana fan art

2010-12-22T00:21:00.001-08:00

in honor of secret of mana being released for the iphone, I was compelled beyond my will to do some fan art of my favorite elemental from the game-- Salamando. He's so sassy!

I was 7 years old when Secret of Mana came out on SNES. the first drawing i remember doing ever in my life was copying concept art from the user's manual. This game is solely responsible for my desire to do art.

and something that i sketched after seeing tangled:

k done k

2010-12-10T12:26:00.001-08:00

well I think I'm pretty much done, here's some final shots and the texture sheet. That final sheet won't work for the competition, I need to fit the texture sheet and a wireframe shot in there. so i made this one just for YOU. yes, you. i love you.

finals are underway at school, so i'm hoping to crank out a lot of goodness over the christmas break. rawr.

edit- blogger has added a bunch of really great artifacts to these, if anyone knows how to get rid of that, i kiss you.

pre dominance war

2010-11-27T12:25:00.000-08:00

So i'm making a character for the pre-dominance war challenge. I'm maybe halfway done, but I thought I'd post my concept and my progress so far:

that's all for now!

*edit* I forgot, I made a little video just showing some of my process for the lunchcrunch blog :

Pre-Dwar-Paint02 from Tyson Murphy on Vimeo.

some new thangz

2010-11-11T12:38:00.000-08:00

k what do we gots here..... some environment quickies, a sword i made for my character below, and a turnaround of him with his sword and in a pose.

that's it for now, if school stays out of my way maybe i could get some cool stuff done :)

seru_turntable from Tyson Murphy on Vimeo.

hand painted tom foolery

2010-10-19T02:45:00.001-07:00

flat diffuse:

horrible temp lighting:

so I'm still working on this guy, but my blog felt eerily empty as of late, so i'm jumping the proverbial gun and posting him.

i was going for a hand painted look obviously inspired by WoW and the like, but I wanted him to feel a touch more illustrative. He still needs work so i'll post more when i'm done. I'll post the concepts i did as well... on the aforementioned date.

here's the flats:

kthxbye

robo gunner pet

2010-09-19T22:58:00.000-07:00

so i drew this:

then i made this:

i stuck close to the concept til i got it into zbrush. then i went hog wild.

just kinda messing around, getting a workflow down.

back to school qq

2010-09-13T00:48:00.001-07:00

well i'm back at school. Blizzard was amazing. human words can't describe the experience. It sorta feels like it was just a nice dream, and now i've woken up...... sweaty and scared and back in the real world. Hopefully blizzcon will remedy my postpartum.

okay so it's not THAT bad being back at school. i'm making plans to make the most of my last couple semesters, and hopefully i can learn a lot and beef up the ol' portfolio + demo reel.

here's my first assignment back at school: render this guy out using only one color. lineart by sam nielson.

p.s. new blog header! I'm shameless...

doodles

2010-08-25T12:24:00.000-07:00

a couple random doodley doodle painty paints

d3 barbarian

2010-08-06T21:47:00.001-07:00

never been so busy in all my lives. this is my wow style d3 barbarian. i admit the perspective on his sword is laughable :(

knight guy

2010-06-27T12:55:00.000-07:00

this has been sitting around for a few days, haven't had time to work on it anymore.

MOAR

2010-06-17T00:30:00.001-07:00

some sketches and warm-ups from the last couple days:

troll sketch

2010-06-09T22:17:00.000-07:00

this sketch taught me that I really need to think before I start painting. and while I'm painting, for that matter...

Blizzard is going amazing. I'm on the character art team for Diablo 3. I can't walk 5 feet without bumping into an amazing artist.
here's my fellow art interns!:
Paul
Jin
Gabriele

some paintins

2010-05-22T14:58:00.000-07:00

a little environment, still needs some work:

a manfishlizardbearman:

got inspired by some orc drawrings i saw recently and decided to spawn one of my own:

Blizzard Internship

2010-05-05T21:18:00.001-07:00

YAR!!!!@!

I got lucky enough to get an internship at Blizzard for the summer. I'm soooo excited to be doing what I'm most passionate about. I'll keep everyone updated on how it goes, K GUYZ?? Maybe I'll get twitter....... ... . . .. ... .. .. . .. .

also here's a generic sketch for you:

Film Festival in Portugal

2010-04-29T23:45:00.000-07:00

Had a fun couple weeks recently, I went to the island of Madeira, Portugal with Kelly Loosli to do some animation workshops for the Funchal Film Festival. It was awesome, Kelly took a bunch of pictures, he put some up on his blog: http://alooslimadeblog.blogspot.com/

here's some sketches from hanging around the theater and the festival activities:

(I had more, but I gave away a lot of them to random foreign directors)

how to train your dragon fan art

2010-04-02T14:33:00.000-07:00

totally, dudes.

portfolio e mas

2010-03-19T02:16:00.000-07:00

everyone lately seems to be "making portfolios" and "showcasing their art" and "being responsible"..... so I thought I'd make my contribution. Link to my new portfolio in the top right hand of the page.

ALSO!!! E MAS!!

a painting in progress:

Pixar

2010-03-16T16:08:00.002-07:00

okay one last picture of the imp:

me and my Dad went to pixar a few months ago. my dad just emailed me some pictures he took so i decided to put a few up here:

me and mi padre:

me and Kevin Chesnos

me and the famous Tia Kratter near the atrium

my dad in Andrew Gordon's famous Lucky 7 Lounge

seafood in san fran after the visit:

done-ish

2010-03-08T15:47:00.001-08:00

finished my imp. took about a week, working during the dark hours of the day. Next on my list is to finish putting together my 2d concept portfolio.

here's a screenshot of the maya viewport:

and a quick render with some lights:

painted textures in zbrush polypaint/ photoshop. normals sculpted in zbrush.

here's a quick run cycle test i made:

Imp run cycle from Tyson Murphy on Vimeo.

IMP

2010-03-02T19:17:00.000-08:00

*update* some modeling works in progress

friends

2010-02-25T01:36:00.000-08:00

the ring

2010-02-22T14:39:00.001-08:00

this is.......

2010-02-17T23:13:00.000-08:00

this is rafael, whom i painted in a brisk 30 minutes:this is paddy, doing what he does best:
don't even ask what these are:
this is a doggy:
this is a chair for the film:
this is a stone wall:
this is an unfinished painting where the referee is a small child:
this is a logo for the film:
this is a sculpted head that scares me:
this is a cat/kitten/elephant:
edit: i forgot. these are nintendo ds paintings:

any questions?

frog 2.0

2010-02-11T21:06:00.000-08:00

my little frogs now exist in 3d. now to get them 3d printed and carry them around in my pocket forever.....

some things

2010-01-27T21:45:00.000-08:00

these are some designs done for our current senior film project at BYU.

and here is a glimpse into my secret life of 3D art:

demo reel '10 from Tyson Murphy on Vimeo.

ye old sketchbook

2010-01-22T02:00:00.001-08:00

stuff keeps piling up in between posts....

couple of doodly doodlies

2010-01-11T00:29:00.001-08:00

i think my brain has officially stopped working.....

the hall of fame

2010-01-06T22:04:00.000-08:00

every year my dad gets shafted in the hall of fame vote, and the only person in my family who doesn't care is him:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/print.jsp?ymd=20100106&content_id=7883680&vkey=perspectives&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

the drawings have nothing to do with that.......

Rad is RAD

2009-12-23T11:20:00.001-08:00

The amazing Rad Sechrist http://radfordsechrist.blogspot.com/ was kind enough to break down one of my guys, to show how to go about posing and turning around. I'm really bad at all that, so his breakdowns will really really help. Figured I'd share them!

he also has a blog where he gives tips on drawing: http://radhowto.blogspot.com/

if anyone else has tips on posing/model sheet-type stuff, i'm all ears! :)

avatar was awesome

2009-12-20T18:46:00.000-08:00

gnome02

2009-12-10T22:22:00.001-08:00

another gnome here.

<3 school

2009-11-29T19:40:00.000-08:00

ah man those lucky vampires get to go back to high school. man. lucky.

done for the avalanche blog

Gnome

2009-11-20T00:24:00.000-08:00

what's that? Joe Olson who?

bleh

2009-11-18T18:49:00.001-08:00

this one needs some more time on it

paint

2009-11-16T17:23:00.000-08:00

stuff+words.

2009-11-14T12:37:00.000-08:00

sketchbook+painting.

life+things=busy.

sketchdump

2009-11-01T22:38:00.001-08:00

stuff i found on my computing device

2009-10-12T10:10:00.000-07:00

moar shtuff

2009-09-09T20:02:00.001-07:00

herder and prophet of bunnies:

design for Barry's 3D class

school FTL!!

2009-08-25T15:04:00.000-07:00

Hail, Adventurers!

Here's a work in progress for the Avalanche blog that i pooped out on. The topic was spaceman. I'll finish it after i learn how to paint. i've never had problems with blogger's colors until I posted this.

^^ more loose watercolor stuff. i like vehicles and props and environments. I will be doing more of them. School starts in a week. So say we all.

miami

2009-08-20T15:45:00.000-07:00

went to miami this last week to watch my brother play, it was the dolphins first preseason game. I brought my sketchbook but i don't think i drew once while i was there. i did these before i left.

procrastination vacation

2009-08-06T22:52:00.000-07:00

another quick sketch. messing around. getting out of a funk of sorts.

waters

2009-08-05T21:04:00.001-07:00

some sartorialist sketches, been switching up some drawings utensils, sketching without thinking. it scares me.

Fuelforart.com

2009-08-05T14:38:00.000-07:00

So it's become a pretty big trend lately for artists to sell their work online, either in prints or sketchbooks. A lot of people make some pretty good money off it. There's an ebook that Fuel for Art puts out that really goes over the step by step process of doing this. Reading through it, it has some really valuable information and tips, along with amazing lists of helpful websites.

I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to make some money with their talents and getting into the Art Business

again

2009-07-24T00:22:00.000-07:00

this is what i paint when my brain turns off

sketch

2009-07-14T01:43:00.000-07:00

a quick little whatever.

sketchbook and update just 4 U, QT!

2009-07-05T21:37:00.000-07:00

i get really lazy when it comes to scanning sketchbook pages lately. Most of these are from avalanche lunch sketches or open drawing sessions, or just random junk.

I haven't been sketching AS much lately, either- mostly cause I've been animating alot of stuff that I'm not allowed to show (QQ). But my animation internship at Avalanche so far is going great. better than great. better than butter. It's amazing to be around so many talented people, who have such a strong presence in the entertainment art community. Still a little surreal just to interact daily with them. I've been learning so much, I can't even tell you. k maybe I can. But I will not.

<3

Gesture Drawing

2009-06-16T18:16:00.001-07:00

Here's a tasty sampling of some gesture drawings. highly academic in nature.

ahead

2009-05-23T13:58:00.000-07:00

sketchbook stuff should be coming soon.ish.

here's a guy's head.

asdasd

2009-04-18T22:54:00.000-07:00

aasdasdasdad

finalz

2009-04-13T11:50:00.000-07:00

a bunch of horrible test animations

^_^

2009-03-30T00:47:00.000-07:00

don't ask

don't tell

hi

2009-03-25T21:22:00.000-07:00

i'm getting fat.

edit: updated version

time =

2009-03-19T20:07:00.000-07:00

i skip class on a regular basis so i can work on random stuff like this.

stuff

2009-03-03T01:12:00.001-08:00

for you.

ok

2009-02-23T16:02:00.000-08:00

rigg't

2009-02-17T11:35:00.000-08:00

decided i'd learn how to rig. this guy was a tough 1st character to do, cause of his fat, weird proportions, and the fact that he's completely naked.

i should have thought of a cool animation to do with him, I just wanted to see what all my controls did, so i moved them around.

my next goal is to make something that isn't ugly.

and some practice lighting things, and my line art for digital painting.

joe olson paintover

2009-02-06T01:19:00.000-08:00

not quite done... like everything else..

roundroundbaby

2009-02-02T23:47:00.000-08:00

yeah

2009-01-26T14:39:00.000-08:00

the search for an eye.

2009-01-18T22:21:00.000-08:00

gonna model this guy

2009-01-14T01:02:00.001-08:00

maybe.

wow

2008-12-18T00:04:00.000-08:00

I'm so embarrassed. wip. due tomorrow, but still. wip.

wip= work in progress. np.

wip #2

2008-12-12T19:23:00.000-08:00

unfinished. but in the meantime, call her corpse face.

wip

2008-12-10T01:55:00.000-08:00

Bombs

2008-12-06T15:22:00.000-08:00

Hi there. Bunch of random stuff.

f

2008-11-20T01:52:00.001-08:00

first attempt at a cheeks emulation. fail. i'll try harder next time.

just one

2008-11-14T00:46:00.000-08:00

i did part of my homework early. woots.

aminals

2008-11-09T23:30:00.001-08:00

some stuff from character design. sketchbook dump incoming shortly.

Cha

2008-10-23T22:03:00.001-07:00

I can put tangents wherever I want

you WHAA?

2008-07-11T09:06:00.000-07:00

yeah. had a baby.

Maximus Ray Murphy stopped growing in Mom's tummy, so they induced her 2 weeks early and he came weighing 4 pounds 13 ounces. He's awesome and sounds like a kitten when he cries.

2008-06-14T13:17:00.000-07:00

cycloptik

2008-06-05T21:02:00.001-07:00

Just an innocent.

scifidom

2008-06-03T13:13:00.001-07:00

no idea what I'm doing. 20-30 minutes each.

Radiohead

2008-04-15T12:53:00.001-07:00

'

Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom'

So radiohead is having an animatic/storyboard contest for In Rainbows. Never used After Effects before, but I thought I'd give it a shot. Here's the first 40 seconds of '15 step'. Half horribly animated, the other half not at all!

guardz

2008-03-22T06:39:00.000-07:00

monkey guard from oz? british guard? your pick.