Front cover illustration for West One Music’s Electro Swing album, inspired by burlesque and art nouveaux design.

CD cover design for West One Music’s compilation of production music tracks. The CD was a direct pitch for licensing music to TV stations, so the artwork needed to communicate the theme of history. I decided on the heraldic theme and included references to the music on the CD in the elements surrounding the shield.

Composer and Producer for TV, film and advertising Jay Price commissioned me to create his showcase website. The site uses a fixed masonry layout grid and streaming HTML5 video and audio for iPhone and iPad compatibility.

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Inspired by a misspent youth of entire Summers spent indoors playing videogames in darkened rooms and countless 10p’s lost to amusement arcades, this piece is heavily influenced by the first wave of classic 8-bit videogames on the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and classic coin-ops.

The image was modeled, lit and textured with my own custom shaders in Cinema 4D, with some minor post production in Photoshop. The stars and falling pixels and particles were setup as an animation in C4D using dynamic physics properties with the MoGraph module, so the final render is actually a still frame from a 30 second animation. That way I achieved the realistic motion blur and movement of the falling objects.

MacUser invited me to be interviewed and talk about my work, influences and process in the August 2011 issue of the magazine. Download the PDF

Digital illustration created for Jesper Kyd, the composer behind videogame soundtracks for Hitman, Assassin’s Creed and Borderlands. The illustration was created entirely in Photoshop using matte painting techniques.

UK author Shaun Othen commissioned me to design the covers of three of his books, starting with Taxi. The books’ plot is about the owner of a taxi company who behaves like a modern day Caligula, and treats his employees as slaves.

We wanted a feeling of grimy sleaziness to come across in the book cover illustration, so we went for a burned out neon sign 3D typography treatment, composed with gritty urban surfaces and grunge textures. The type was created in Illustrator and imported into Photoshop for texturing and lighting, the fine details were added with lots of brush work and plenty of adjustment layers.

Digital illustration created for Fired Earth Music’s Biowars, an album of industrial cues for motion picture advertising. Created entirely in Photoshop.

This album of evil and menacing trailer cues demanded something epic and dark for the cover, and also needed to communicate the concept that the album is a toolkit for movie trailer producers. I came up with the idea of an epic steampunk illustration that looks like it was constructed from futuristic junk, fused with organic elements and mechanical parts.

My signature Photoshop lighting effects over a digital mashup of futuristic techno cityscapes for this album of hard-edged, pumped-up, dance classics.