Moving to Tumblr

I moved to Tumblr! Click the link to see some more recent work:

https://matthirengen.tumblr.com/

Video Game concept work Pt.1

I decided it's finally time to post some of my character design work from my time at Page 44 Studios.  To start things off, here's Grizbane.  He was a mystical caber tossing creature from a game pitch for an ESPN game that was shelved.  He was fun to develop for the few months we worked on it though.

Island Life

I love pirates. An image I painted in Photoshop for a contest that I didn't win. Oh well, it was fun and a great learning experience. I can't wait to delve deeper into my digital painting and get better at it. I regret diving into the render pass too soon on this one. I should have focused on getting the values right with broad passes. Comment with any crits you have. I appreciate it!

Mr. W.

Growing restless at work. So a 15 minute dabble with Painter's Oil Pastel brush. Just to keep things loose....

Smithy

He made the hammer....and he knows how to use it.

Boom Chuck

Meet the Boom Chucker. He'll explode you. This one needs some values to clear up my bad composition. A colored 3/4 view would be much better. I'll have to revisit this fella.

Archer

Archer is a great TV show. Just sayin.

Elder Wizard

Here's another character from my oft-thought about, seldom worked on project. He knows hocus pocus.

Turtle Tank

Another fellow from my personal project. I almost broke Flash drawing this one!

Half Pint

Wow, sorry for the LONG lag between posts. Life got more crazy than usual..but we're back! This is Half-Pint with his special libation "Firebeer". He's one of the fellows associated with my super secret personal project. Maybe I'll post the rest of em if I can get the idea to go somewhere. Or.... I suppose if it crashes and burns I can post all of his little buddies :D

Spring Plz

My sketchy expression of groundhogs day. This fellow and I really would like an early spring, but since it snowed today.....I am not hopeful.

Legend

Last year I created this short little story for a compilation comic book that was published by a friend of mine who wanted to put together a comic for the Feed the Children charity. I held back on posting my contribution for a while, but now I'm posting it here. This is just my contribution. The real value is the work of the other incredible artists, and you can still buy the book (remember, all proceeds go to charity) here:
http://fragmentscomic.org/

Legend Cont.

Doodle Do

A quickie while I was waiting on my computer to do it's thing at work today. I'd like to think they're covering something epic like The Czar by Mastodon.....but lets face it, they're probably playing Journey.

Waiting for the Bus

Formative years.

Rooftop WIP #3

Another pass on my rooftop animation. I still need to polish up some portions of this, and then I can get going on a face pass.

Questing

I should win an award for my lazy backgrounds.....OR I should start staging my characters in more realized spaces. hmmmmmmm......

Rooftop WIP #2

Here's another WIP post. I'm not getting as far along with this as I'd like (isn't that always the case), but it's coming along bit by bit.

Sneaks

Here's a playblast of my personal reel project that I'm working on. It's just the opening shot of what will hopefully be a great chase scene. This is my progress WIP on the first part with one round of polish.....much more needed. I'll update here with more of these as I complete em!

Back to basics

Graphite, uncombed hair, canvas jacket. Earthy stuff.