TV Storyboards for VFX: Barbarians Rising - History with Guts

The sizzling new trailer is out for BARBARIANS RISING on the History Channel.  Some of my favourite shots I've ever gotten to draw - really brutal and vital history coming alive.
You can check out more on the History Channel official page. 

Sketchbook: Tudor portraits

A lot of writing and shooting lately, between matte painting, but I finally got a little time in for ink drawing.


Nearly finished:
Jane Seymour
Tudor Portaits gel ink and ballpoint pen
Inspired by: Holbein's painting of Jane

Theatre Projection Design: The 12 Trials of Hercules

The 12 Trials Of Hercules - projection design at the Pantheon, Greece from Konstantinos Koutsoliotas on Vimeo.

The 12 Trials of Hercules
Pantheon Theatre
Athens, Greese

Projection Animation by Melancholy Star
Collaboration with Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, Janet Lennon
Role: Shadow play design and matte painting

Sketchbook: Julius Caesar

Working on an illustration of the notorious Roman Dictator:

Sketchbook: Opera Illustration Series

Opera Illustrations created exclusively for The Metropolitan Opera

Das Rheingold

Framed inside the golden Ring is Freia, the Goddess of youth and beauty. 

To preserve her services in Valhalla the gods seek out the Ring that will shape their own demise. 

From: Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen 

Sketchbook: Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

By special request, I created this artwork for Sonnet 18.  Playing with Elizabethan lace as the graphic inspiration, I tried to weave elements from the visuals of the poem: flowers, wind, and the warmth of the summer sun.

The original sketch is worked with fine pencil, then overlaid in black ink.  I then work watercolour and Sennelier inks over the lacey  lines for the full colour finish.

This sonnet is a part of my ongoing drawings of Shakespeare in a series I call 'Immortal Longings.
You can see all the Shakespeare art at www.immortallongings.com

TV Storyboards: The British (Episodes 6 - 7) Victorians, WWII

TV: 'The British'

Documentary TV Series by Nutopia
2012 on Sky7 Episodes

UK

Storyboard Artist

For 'The British', I created storyboards for CGI and live action sequences across the entire series in pencil with digital colouring.

Episodes 6-7 Victorians, WWII, Suburbs

TV Storyboards: The British (Episodes 3, 4, 5) London Fire and Rebuild, Nelson, Drake

TV: 'The British'

Documentary TV Series by Nutopia
2012 on Sky
7 EpisodesUK

Storyboard Artist

For 'The British', I created storyboards for CGI and live action sequences across the entire series in pencil with digital colouring.

Episodes 4, 5, 6 : Trafalgar, Gutenberg, The London Fire, St. Paul's, Crystal Palace.

TV Storyboards: The British (Episodes 1-2) Ancient, Roman, Medieval

TV: 'The British'
Documentary TV Series by Nutopia
2012 on Sky
7 EpisodesUK
Storyboard Artist

TV Storyboards: Mankind - The Story of All of Us

'Mankind'
TV: The History Channel
Nutopia
Storyboard Artist for CGI

Built in parallel with their other ambitious history documentary 'The British', I arrived late in the process to help out with storyboards for the CGI sequences during the edit.  The shear scale of the project is incredible, covering human existence and achievement across the planet.

TV: Storyboards: 'Gettysburg'

For 'Gettysburg', I produced some (very) quick visuals for CGI sequences, highlighting marches, maps, and weaponry.

About the Show
'Executive produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, GETTYSBURG strips away the romanticized veneer of the Civil War to present the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg in a new light--a visceral, terrifying and deeply personal experience, fought by men who put everything on the line in defense of their vision of the American future. Cinematic in scope, GETTYSBURG is an information-packed look at the turning points, strategic decisions, technology and little-known facts surrounding the battle. Developed in collaboration with highly esteemed Civil War historians, GETTYSBURG reflects hundreds of individual accounts of the battle--the unique voices of struggle, defeat and triumph that tell the larger story of a bitterly conflicted nation.'

*'Gettysburg' won 2 Emmy Awards in 2011, including Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special

Images courtesy RSA/History Channel

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