This may be more than a little late, but I figured I’d do a post on CONvergence. I did take some pictures from my experience, and I have two pictures by the wonderful Bryan Humphrey of my costumes. Those are below.

So first of all, this was my second time attending CONvergence. While it was slightly less fun than last year, I think that is probably do to the fact that the people who run CONvergence divided into two different groups between the 2009 and 2010, and that caused some planning issues. The biggest thing I noticed were the party rooms were somewhat lacking. For instance, there was no Tardis Tea Room, no Romulan Consulate, no Serenity Room, and no Ghostbusters Room.

The Smackdown was as good as ever. Smackdown is a panel on Thursday night that involves a panel of “experts” debating which character would win in a fight, and they go through several rounds giving often ridiculous reasons for their votes, and eventually a winner is crowned. This years theme was Super Villains, and after several rounds, the victor was The Master from the Doctor Who series. This was rather ironic, since one of the panelists was CONvergence Guest of Honor, Paul Cornell, a Doctor Who writer.

We didn’t make it to Villification Tennis this year, which was saddening, but we did get to see Tim Uren and his gang perform a hilarious skit called Macbeth: The Video Game Remix. Tim Uren, along with his pal Joe Scrimshaw, are basically the heart of CONvergence. They are both regulars on the Smackdown panel, and their small series Spooky Spooky Scary Scary is always aired on Sunday in the Cinema Rex.

It also felt like there were less costumes than usual this year. This was particularly noticeable during the LARP tournament in the Garden Court. Last year nearly every contestant was in costume and performed their fighting as their character would. This year most of the contestants were not in costume.

I went in costume this year. Thursday night I wore my black and white Amidala dress:

Photo by Bryan Humphrey

On Friday and Saturday night, I dressed as Leeloo from The Fifth Element.


Photo by Bryan Humphrey
That was really fun, dressing as Leeloo. I got a lot of people stopping me for photos, and it was particularly awesome because I was the only Leeloo there. Last year there were three or four of them.

Anyways, here are some more photos, mostly other people’s costumes, from CONvergence:

Indiana Jones


Knight in Armor


Jafar with Iago from Aladdin, and a Cybergirl (Doctor Who) on the side


Princess Leia’s Bounty Hunter disguise, Boba Fett, and Zam Wesell from Star Wars


The Spies from Spy vs. Spy


David Bowie’s Jareth from The Labyrinth


Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty


And the Connie Cake. Connie is the mascot of CONvergence…but this is Connie Mark II (the evil twin of Connie)

Tags: CONvergence, costumes, photos

Hello again!

First and foremost, CONvergence was an absolute blast. I had a ton of fun dressing up as Leeloo, even though, as I quickly learned, it came with people shouting “Mooltipass” at me everywhere I went. But a lot of people stopped me to take a picture ( a few of which have been posted on Facebook), which was really fun.

I’m already registered for next year’s Con, and I’m already planning new costumes.

Anyway, the real reason for this update is 1) I posted a new piece on my illustration page, an actual work sample from a commission I got through DeviantART. The client was Kossmoe and they had me do an illustration of a character named Zave. Here’s Zave:

And 2) I have finally updated my concept art page, which now contains several samples of my concept art work – including my contest entries. Some of these have never been seen before on the internet, so enjoy the awesomeness that they are.

I will be working on some more pieces within the next few weeks, including a couple more contest entries, as well as a piece for an Assassin’s Creed art book. And on top of that, this coming week I will be spending many hours at Caribou Coffee giving my Legend of the Orbs screenplay its much needed rewrite. So I’ll be keeping myself busy.

Until my next update!

Tags: commission, concept art, CONvergence, illustration, legend of the orbs, screenwriting

Just updating here really quickly with another contest entry I completed a couple days ago. This one was for the Fantasy Earth Zero “Create a Character” contest on DeviantART.

You can check out the actual entry on my DeviantART gallery here.

On another note, CONvergence is in just over a week and I am so psyched for it! If you are going too, be sure to check out the Artist’s Alley and Art Show, I will have some art prints on display and for sale in the show. And I will be working in Artist Alley on thursday (I think), so come back to visit!

Tags: contest, CONvergence, DeviantART, fantasy earth zero, illustration

Hey guys!

I just thought I’d quickly throw this up here, this is a sample of some texturing I did for a friend for his senior project. This is Jamie McNeill’s model, Sam, which I did the skin texture.

You can check out Jamie’s final animation here. I also put together the musical composition for the animation!

Enjoy!

Tags: animation, Jamie McNeill, model, senior project, texture

Just updating to share a new painting I did for DeviantART’s “Splice” Create a Creature contest. Take a look at the contest here, if you are interested.

You can also take a look at the actual submission on my DeviantART page here. Enjoy!

Tags: contest, DeviantART, illustration, Splice