Justin and the Knights of Valour

BIG NEWS: We're very excited to tell you that we've been working with eOne and Timeless Films to design and produce the international creative for Justin and the Knights of Valour.

So, without further ado here's our lovely quad poster!

Behind the Candelabra

It's been busy and exciting times recently at the studio! After successfully winning a recent pitch, it's been all hands to the deck at Big Picture Studio, but we can finally announce that we're proud to have designed the domestic marketing campaign for Behind the Candelabra. Watch the great new trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas.

FUN FILM FRIDAY FACT

If you follow Big Picture Studio on Facebook you'll be familiar with our Fun Film Fact Friday posts, if not follow us on Facebook for your film FFFFACT each week.

FFFFACT: Man of Steel a.k.a Superman had a gun made of Kryptonite. The first time Kryptonite was ever mentioned, was in 1940, when merchandisers decided to sell a toy gun called the "KRYPTO-RAYGUN". Why would Superman ever need a gun?

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Mini Iron Man!

We've finally been able to convince our little boy to take his Iron Man suit for a test fly - it's hard work being Iron Man!

Big Picture Studio - Site update!

It's been a busy few months but we've finally updated our site with new campaign materials for THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS and BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, there's still more to follow.

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New company mailer

A sneak peek of our new promo mailers, en route to all good film distributors in the UK!

Creature sketch

It's been quite some time since I've opened ZBrush... 

how does it work again!?

Happy holidays!

Happy holidays folks!

SWAT

Speed painting from a while back - Photoshop

Batman

Retro Batman - ZBrush sketch

Long claws

Following, the dinosaur theme of my last sculpt entitled Long legs is another idea I was keen to explore  entitled Long claws - not a particularly original name folks!

Skinny legs

 

I have a Tyrannosaurus Rex model on my desk in work which I'd bought some time last year. So, with a couple of hours spare today it inspired me to sculpt 'Skinny legs'. ZBrush + Photoshop

Orc Warrior

Works been busy over at Big Picture Studio but I've finally found the time for a ZBrush speed sculpt - Good to be back in the land of Zeeee!

Supers / Identities

Once again it's all about Superhero's in the cinema folks. Retro Iron Man, Hulk & Fantastic Four identity concepts.

Roy Batty / Blade Runner

With the announcement that British director Sir Ridley Scott is to make a new instalment of his 1982 cult sci-fi Blade Runner, I decided to watch it last night for the first time in a while. Like a good bottle of wine Syd Mead’s production design just keeps getting better with age. Future (Perfect) an upcoming exhibition at BravinLee Programs in New York is showcasing the work of Concept designer Syd Mead. So, inspired by the film I decided to paint the leader of the replicants ‘Roy Batty’ played by Rutger Hauer – Great Sci-Fi stuff!

Toy Rocket Ship

Made by my wife for our son Dylan.

Watermark Monster

I stumbled across this unusual image today, It's a photo of a watermark I took it some time ago that reminded me of a dragon - will design a creature based on this one day.

Monster warm up

This week I'm mostly be designing monsters... GRRRRRR!!! Here's a warm up monster to get me in the mood.

Speed painting

Book cover design

I hadn't painted anything from scratch for a while and quite liked the idea of using the Chalk brush in Photoshop. This is what I came up with.

Apple folk

Had to pick up a Magsafe Power Adapter from the good folk at Apple this week, they don't come cheap!

In-cinema advertising

Every wondered who designs the oversized pop up displays in cinema foyers? Here's one I recently worked on for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. To see the complete film advertising campaign for Ghost Rider visit: www.bigpicturestudio.co.uk

Noodling & Doodling

Waiting for feedback this morning on a new film advertising campaign I'm currently working on called Nativity 2! left me time to doodle up a Cosmic Slug!

Horned beasty

I designed this creature a few weeks back but didn't have the time to add the finishing touches in Photoshop.

Big Greeny

It's been ages since I've been able to doodle a design or even write a new post for my blog since Big Picture Studio has been up and running. To dip my toe back in the water I decided to sculpt the head of a kick-ass big green lizard - It's good to be back!

Retro Jet

More lunchtime doodles.

Retro Rocketship

Had a few hours spare in the studio this week so decided to illustrate a retro Rocketship in spired by the 1930s science fiction TV series Flash Gordon, complete with low tech FX.

John Carter book cover design

Since launching Big Picture Studio in June my focus has been on designing film advertising campaigns and we've been snowed under! So, it's been quite some time since I've been in a position to design for myself and post anything new on my personal blog. As excitement builds for Andrew Stanton's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'John Carter of Mars' and inspired by the latest movie trailer which features the work of Ryan Church and Iain McCaig, I decided to design myself a retro 'John Carter of Mars' book cover with the few hours I had spare this afternoon - Good fun too.

Speed painting

With the recent launch of Big Picture Studio  and the current Musketeers and Ides of March campaigns it hasn't left me much time to paint. As practice I started this speed painting the beginning of the week in my downtime - not sure if I can call it a speed painting really?

The Three Musketeers

Since launching, Big Picture Studio's been busy, and is currently designing the domestic marketing campaign for Paul W S Anderson's The Three Musketeers, due for release later is year. The campaign is currently in production phase but BPS looks forward to sharing more exciting artwork on www.bigpicturestudio.co.uk 

Thark Z sketches

I''d Just finished reading Princess of Mars and as a result was inspired to design these 3D Z sketches of Thark, the initial idea being to explore a variation of designs.

Big Picture Studio

Over the next few months I'll be launching my new company website: www.bigpicturestudio.co.uk I'll still be keeping my personal blog for sketches and ideas so keep stopping by! 

Big Picture Sudio What we do?

'From pre-production to promotion, concept art to launch campaigns and merchandise ideas, Big Picture Studio helps entertainment companies make the most of their movies'.

PUNCH

Featured Artist

Shameless plugging - This week I've been chosen as one of the Featured Artists on the Hire an Illustrator site.

Test Pilot / Sketch

Little & Large / Speed painting

Cityscape - Invasion

A quick personal piece, posting these is a good way to motivate myself to complete a painting.

John Carter of Mars - Woola concept

John Carter of Mars - Thark concept

Monster of the day

Monster of the day

Monster of the day is a new challenge I've set myself, as the title suggests I plan to sketch, paint or sculpt a monster each day to keep the skills sharp. So, without further ado introducing the 'Mouthless alien'. ZBrush sculpt

Alien quadruped - Speed sketch

Bugs!

Quick form design using the Lasso Tool in photoshop to quickly block a series of creature silhouettes.

Space storm

Speed painting. Photoshop

Gnomeo & Juliet - Movie soundtrack design concept

When I stumbled across the Gnomeo & Juliet movie soundtrack design recently (my artwork files but not my doing) it reminded me of an idea I'd had to design it. So,  here it is.

Pixar toy packaging concepts - The Incredibles

I designed these two packaging concepts for 'The Incredibles' action figures back in 2008, as the Lou Romano's production design for the movie was so iconic I think these designs have stood the test of time quite well - Cheers Lou!

Skull Valley - Alternative design

Following the theme of the last painting I decided to try an alternative layout.

Skull Valley

I hadn't painted an organic environment for some time so set my self the challenge of designing a 'game art' style painting.