Tuesday, January 5, 2010

New Years' Update

Happy New Year All!
And what better way to start it off than with some work I am moderately happy with.



This was a really fun project. Taking an new franchise and establishing a public space consistent with the style. In this case all of the materials used would be natural or at least appear to be. I imagined this being built in Descanso Gardens when working on this project. I'll post more sketches on optic vine later.






I really think I made a leap in designing and drawing vehicles in these past few months.
The prompt for this project was to create fighter plane using the materials and the technology of the period. In my story extension to this prompt our planet has been bombarded by outer space comets, thus drastically changing the earth crust causing continents to divide into separate islands with flight becoming the most practical form of transportation. With devastation so close to the promise of a looming apocalypse, religious organizations become a powerful force in controlling world resources.



This is part of an extension to Terry Gilliam's version of the Adventures of Baron Munchousen.
I noticed that the movie borrowed allot from the 1940' German film version, so this scene of the Baron traveling underwater fits right in. Here, you see our hero about to make a bargain with a deteriorating Neptune for his lost horse Beusephelus. I will post some sketches from this project on my sketch site when I scan them.
Anyway! Hope everyone had a pleasant holiday!

24 comments:

A. Riabovitchev said...

Happy New Year Rustam! Brilliant bunch of work!:o)Great post!

Jack Chang said...

Awesome work Rus. Happy New Year.

Víctor P Corbella said...

Really great stuff!

Josh Kao said...

nice man, dude you should be teaching ME instead.

Jason Scheier said...

very sick, very sick indeed!

Helen Chen said...

GO Rus!! I love seeing your personal work, keep updating!

Desiree said...

Everything is amazing!!!!

James O'Shea said...

wow! really great stuff especially the Where the Wild Things are! great mood. The last one reminds me of a palette from Sharktale. nice.

jbachdesign said...

Great!! The Rumbus Room, Templar fighter and paiting for the Adventures of Baron Munchousen are all so inspiring. I really enjoy visiting your world.

Annis Naeem said...

damn Rus! these are awesome. I remember you mentioning the planes- they look great!

Alfonso de la Torre said...

dam Rus!! Love it!!!! all of it. I want to be like you when I grow up. :)

Ian McQue said...

So much good stuff. Tremendous.

M said...

incredible work. keep posting, please.

Tom Zhao said...

Hey Rus,

Just checked out your portfolio blog--FANTASTIC!!! So much awesome work, it's very inspiring.

Cheers,
Tom

Jason Scheier said...

hey rustam!

it was nice to finally meet you last night! keep ripping shit up!

Luke said...

so good you son of a bitch

Jparked said...

sooo kick assssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss go RUSS GO!

Marcos Mateu said...

Nice work Rustam!

Ben Mauro said...

So cool man!

Richard Hwang said...

Kick Ass, Rustam! -RHent-

Kendra Melton said...

Hey Rus I just found your blog, AWESOME stuff man, Overwhelming even. haha
I'll try and figure out when will be a good Zoo day here in the next few weeks hopefully. I think I'm going Wednesday but I remember you saying you have school/work during the week. Hopefully I'll see ya one of these Friday's and we can figure something out. See ya around :]

tunamunaluna said...

Rust! Update!

milind said...

great work!rustam!

Unknown said...

Рустам Привет!Великолепные рисунки!!!