The Art of Jamie Burton

Mental Ray samples

2012-01-14T14:31:00.000-08:00

Getting around to rendering in mental ray, another step closer to making amazing illustrations. I also wanted to post an old cart I made for a fanatsay style game like FAble, this was just a fun side project. I also dug up my old flying creature to test organic forms, next step digging into materials and textures! Retro game show going down tonight , cant wait to see everyone elses art!

Space Invaders!!!!!

2012-01-08T22:09:00.000-08:00

Heres my contribution to the upcoming retro video game show coming up at the pirhana gallery Saturday. This is my first attempt at printing some zbrush guys with the giclee process so looking forward to getting those back from the printer. Rich has put together a great line up and I can't wait to see everyones work,so come out and say hi.

off to the printer!

2012-01-06T20:43:00.000-08:00

I polished up these guys a little bit and now their at the printer!!!! gettin giclee prints made and trying the canvas printing as well. I couldn't resist spit shining them first though, I think they look much better now, although I could still adjust a few things.

sketches from work

2011-12-17T00:05:00.001-08:00

A compilation of sketches I had around the ol office cube.

Say hello to my little friend........

2011-12-06T08:30:00.001-08:00

New zbrush sketches!

2011-12-06T08:26:00.000-08:00

Had fun recreating some plants versus zombies characters .

Festival of Blood screenshots

2011-11-21T22:25:00.001-08:00

Yea! I can finally share my FOB work with everyone.... I was teamed up with a very talented texture artist Don Joon and these are the areas we created together. We were part of the underground environment team tasked with building the tunnels underneath New Marais in this quick turnaround DLC project for the Infamous franchise.

2011-11-21T22:15:00.000-08:00

2011-11-21T22:12:00.000-08:00

Casket design from the Darksiders game

2011-11-19T14:36:00.001-08:00

This is the zbrush version, will post game model shots real soon!

Ulthane!!!

2011-11-14T23:58:00.000-08:00

Ulthane from the Darksiders game, built him for my character class with Katon Kaloway on CG talk.

Tattoo design for my good pal ryan.

2011-11-14T22:32:00.000-08:00

This was a request that was made about five years ago from an old pal and I finally got around to designing it for him. Ryan wanted a bunch of skulls done in black and white , but I talked him into a color version. He could not resist after I showed him the two versions next to each other.....HA! This will be a lovely addition to his on growing "skull" leg , looking forward to seeing the finish product!

"Crossroads"

2011-08-28T23:00:00.000-07:00

Finally wrapping this fella up, I have been working on him on and off since the beginning of the year. Just having some fun with character design , imagining this crew starting off on a grand adventure.

heres some design work I did for Well played games

2011-08-12T16:12:00.000-07:00

Helping my pal Chris Orth with some logo and mascot design work, had a great time working with this little set. Keep an eye out for his start up, should be making waves real soon!

Infamous 2 screenshots!!!

2011-06-20T22:34:00.000-07:00

Lets get started with Destruction Park, I had to do two versions of this area, one in fine working order and a second version destroyed by "The Beast"

everything looking good so far....

Ahhhh finally at the end of a two year long trail, was a pretty exciting ride and were all pretty
proud of what we have accomplished. I was a modeler on the environment team the whole project and I worked with various texture artists and layout artists to develop these areas.

Destruction Park

2011-06-20T22:31:00.000-07:00

Texture work in this area by Don Joon.

2011-06-20T22:27:00.000-07:00

Was a a little tricky figuring out how this bridge would open and close, but we did it. I did the modeling and Paul Wu did the texture work.

Boat textures by Morgan Hill.

flood town and fort

2011-06-20T22:18:00.000-07:00

Flood town was made from the set pieces from the neighborhood from Island one, so we had to sprinkle a little bit of doom onto their sad little town.

Don Joon did the texture work on these buildings.

a little sneak peek of the fort!

2011-06-20T22:16:00.001-07:00

This area was created with Don Poole doing layouts, I did the modeling and then Harold Lamb followed up with textures.

Fort St Phillipe

2011-06-20T22:12:00.000-07:00

French Quarter buildings

2011-06-20T22:09:00.000-07:00

2011-06-20T22:04:00.000-07:00

I got to have some fun making some graffiti for the train park!

I modeled the ice. Emelio G modeled the tower.

Industrial area

2011-06-20T22:01:00.000-07:00

neighborhood set

2011-06-20T21:55:00.000-07:00

Textures by Harold Lamb.

props and neighborhood screens

2011-06-20T21:49:00.000-07:00

newer version of "Canary Teaching"

2011-05-04T11:07:00.001-07:00

WIP alien guard

2011-05-04T11:01:00.001-07:00

Heres a little alien guy Ive been working on over break, hes about two thirds of the way done, but I thought Id post to share some goodies.new digital painting coming up next!

2011-04-09T10:58:00.001-07:00

front shot

work in progress shots of the Mosquito Fighter

2011-04-09T10:53:00.001-07:00

just wanted to post some quick shots of a spaceship I built in maya. Hoping to get around to wrapping this up soon, contemplating bringing it into z brush for detail work.

couple more renders.....

2010-09-14T12:52:00.001-07:00

boss battle contest at cg digg!!!!

2010-07-31T17:17:00.000-07:00

this is a minion guy I wanted to have guarding the boss , he would be a lot smaller showing scale , but Im not sure Ill have enough time to finish him up. may go back after the contest..

the hero design!! ya cant have a bad guy without his counterpart.

and heres what our hero is up against........

heres some concepts for a boss Im designing, gonna whip him up in zbrush next.......

syd mead tribute design

2010-06-28T23:14:00.000-07:00

just finished this up for the NVArt accelerate contest over at cg society. http://events.cgsociety.org/NVArt/05/ theirs a ton of really cool designs , stop by and check them out. I wanted to start getting involved with the community a little more and thought this might be a great way to start. I didnt find out about this contest until the half way point , so I only had a month. Im pretty pleased with how it turned out, but Im itching to get a nice organic model going next!!!! concepts for the Boss Battle contest on the table now, will post soon..

My first book cover

2010-06-03T22:38:00.000-07:00

my book cover finally arrived! Im quite happy with the printing, the colors really hung in there.

2010-05-29T15:31:00.000-07:00

a few more sketches

2010-05-29T15:30:00.001-07:00

2010-05-29T15:19:00.000-07:00

I just finished up a sketchbook and scanned and compressed the best of the batch. I wanna try to get into the habbit of documenting the stuff I like as most of it just piles up in cabinets and flat drawers usually never seeing the light of day. Its also nice to be able to give the drawings a final scrub and throw some color in there at the last minute. A lot of the work is really abstract and machine based, at one point I was thinking about doing a series of 12 paintings in that style but abandoned the idea wit my growing interest in digital tools. Ive got a few cool models half way done and will polish them off shortly after I finish a current model Im trying to finish up for the syd mead tribute contest. I found out about it mid process so Im not sure what im gonna end up with, wish me luck!

heres my paper design for the "Thought PProcessor" show

2010-03-10T13:29:00.001-08:00

a few more!

2010-01-04T21:24:00.000-08:00

Atomic Lead illustration completed!!!!

2010-01-04T21:19:00.000-08:00

This year I went with a double page spread illustration, its called "Monster Migration ". This years theme for the book is monsters and I wanted to work on my digital painting, so heres what I ended up with. I wanted to do a handful of the fellas as stand alone illustrations so Im throwing those up as well. enjoy!!!

beetle collector page

2009-11-12T00:06:00.001-08:00

the Beetle collector!

2009-11-10T23:34:00.000-08:00

a new member has been added to the family!!!

bits from the sketchbook

2009-10-25T13:44:00.000-07:00

few more paintings

2009-10-12T20:51:00.001-07:00

heres a couple older favs.

concepts and wakeboards

2009-10-12T20:45:00.000-07:00

heres a variety of 2d work Ive rounded up. It always starts from the sketches no matter what project or medium it is, always nail your idea in a sketch. Theirs something about the rawness of the drawing that allows it to hold life and its important to reference that throughout the process.

z brush models

2009-10-12T20:39:00.000-07:00

This year one of my my main goals was to take the time to teach myself how to use z brush. Ive been at it for 6 months and heres where I'm at so far. I felt like I've learned a lot, but still have a long ways to go! just wished their were more hours in the day. I just need a job that pays me to design monsters all day!!!!!

last of the screenshots!

2009-10-12T20:34:00.000-07:00

round 6

2009-10-12T20:30:00.000-07:00

round 5

2009-10-12T20:14:00.000-07:00

round 3 remix

2009-10-12T20:08:00.000-07:00

Round 4

2009-10-11T10:51:00.001-07:00

Round 2

2009-10-11T10:46:00.000-07:00

okay, looks like I can add five images at a time so here we go..........

Round 1

2009-10-11T10:36:00.000-07:00

My first blog!

2009-10-11T10:30:00.001-07:00

Well here I am with a first post, I just finished up a three year project working on "Infamous" for a studio called Sucker Punch and just finished cleaning up all the screenshots and thought this might be a good place to share some of that work with others. I’ve added detail notes at the bottom of the pages to reference the work I did in the scenes and I'm quite excited to be able to finally share everything as I've had to keep everything under wraps for quite a long time. I’ll be adding new stuff as frequently as possible, thanks for having a look.