friendly monsters

 These little guys were done ages ago, as an idea for vinyl toys of native New Zealand animals...

thomisus stoliczka

Your new desktop! I photographed this little crab spider by a beach in Ko Tao in 2004. If you like this you can check out the exhibition series it was in here, and some jumping spider pics here. Cheers!

Beck Kustoms

hey all!
when i'm not drawing robots, i can be found working on my '73 plymouth barracuda. check out my build blog if you like! BeckKustoms

Castle BrainSkull

Hammer Time

here's a close quarters weapon concept for the Devil Helix Viper. the blade is retractable into the handle, and the front of the weapon and the base of the handle have hardened striking surfaces. ammunition consists of double-stacked, electrically fired, caseless slugs. the attachment at the base of the handle is an articulated arm that connects to the wrist of the viper, steadying recoil, enhancing aim, and allowing the gun to swing out of the way if needed.

wrapped up

here's the clothed Devil-Helix Viper™

linear motor rifles

a.k.a: rail guns. a quick concept for a rail gun system. the upper is an anti-material or sniper type weapon, with two (of the same) batteries and a p90 style projectile magazine, it could also go full auto if the firer was a robot or modified human up for the recoil. the lower one is a cqb assault rifle/smg, with single battery and burst fire capacitor, and a standard style mag.

heavy weaponry

Devil Helix Viper

engineered-dna synthetic organic fighting unit. custom grown from tailored dna and outfitted when fully developed with nano-engineered mechanical augmentation. 20mm caseless cannon in head, with multifeed ammunition system. spider silk protein skin armour...

here's an older bit of concept design / production illustration, one of my first pieces at weta that required drawing an environment. that scared the shit out of me at the time, i hadn't really ever drawn anything with a 'background' and 'lighting' before...

more avatar stuff...

here's a few more old avatar designs

Avatar screen graphics

here's a little bit of the screen graphics i did for avatar. leri greer and i spent what seemed like months working on all the various screens. leri's a genius at this shit, you should see his stuff!

Moar AVATAR gunz

here's a couple more nerdy gun designs for avatar.

Avatar design: Mo'at

here's a radical departure for this blog...
concept art for the headdress Mo'at wears.
and unintentionally this nailed the look of the actual character according to jim.

AVATAR concept art

well, we here at weta have finally been cleared to show some of the design we did for avatar, a quaint little film you may remember, it came out last year and had blue hippy cat people in it. so over the next little while i'll be uploading some of my concept designs here.

this one was my first and really the only design we did for the cannon the amp suit carries. my thinking was that it's based around a 20mm aircraft weapon, that's been modified for use by the robotic humanoid AMP suit. hence the somewhat fabricated appearance and the big welded grab bars. this design was modified, according to jim's needs, to the final thing seen in the film.

2010 'Rumble in the Jungle' design.
this is a nationwide dnb mixing competition that, for the last 5 or 6 years, i've done the posters for.

www.rumblejungle.co.nz

repost!

done a few tweeks to this guy.
probably my favourite personal design of the last year or so...

AVATAR concept design

here's a little bit of the concept work i did for avatar.
these are weapon designs for the RDA security forces on pandora.
i really went super nerdy designing these things, and worked out all the little details, like the reloading process (pre-packaged plastic magazines that you tear the top off and load, complete with e-ink ammo counter on the sides. then you twist the top dial to chamber and cock the first round), how the modular pieces form various weapon types (the under barrel grenade launcher on the assault version forms the base of the shotgun/20mm munition launcher) etc etc etc good fun! these versions are the original caseless designs, but the finals in the film had cased munitions, and ejection ports, as jim wanted brass flying. he also asked for the shotgun to be pump action, which was fucking awesome cause pumping the final prop (with norinco 12 gauge pump internals) is a highlight of my time at weta.

another blog!

hey, in case anyone likes cars, or more specifically chrysler 'E' bodies, i have started a new blog!

http://ebodies.blogspot.com/

puku nui

a scribble of a happy dragon. i wanted to use all the colours.

a scribble from the last meeting i was in...

potential cover design for a personal book of drawings of 'red pencil' mecha.

i still draw with the col-erase red pencils that animators use, just seem nicer to me.

my scribbles with regular ol' graphite pencils are even more crap than these...

here's a link to some old-as red pencil mecha drawings

snake for a face!

was doodling a picture of a mean-as bat/owl/cat faced mecha, and thought it would make a nice cartoon guy...

here's the initial sketch

anatomy of a...

went a different direction with this guy... (or gal?)

synthetic self-evolved nano-engineered warrior mecha posing for an oil painting to go over his mantle piece...

quick render of a quick sketch...

most of the mecha/creatures i have on this blog are the product of putting pencil to paper with no idea of what i'm about to draw. i used to call it 'stream of consciousness mecha', but now i think it's probably just laziness. here's a perfect example. what is it? i don't really know... at least it only took 20 minutes

evil karate-master robot?
or robot with smashed plate for a face?
hmmmmm...

ThinkTank

here's some old ghost in the shell 'fanart'...
the section 6 think tank was always my favourite. see if you can guess why.

i do actually draw stuff that isn't robots you know.
honestly.
like cars, i draw pictures of cars too.
see, way different.

this sketch is something i'm pretty excited about. it's the first real solid vision of a character i've been thinking about for a while. he's an analogue of an old kung fu master, with gnarly joints and swollen chi-belly...

ok, so i have a blog now...

my website is so badly out of date it's a liability, so now i have this here blog to show anything new i've done lately. and whattaya know it's the same old shit! robots with swords!