yakonusuke's blog

Coop-Artwork: The Heroes of the Valley

2011-11-17T00:09:00.006+01:00

Florian and Simon (links in the side bar) and me did this painting over a couple of weeks together. Step by step it was passed from one to another without a plan, so it shaped up almost by itself.

Here you can see how it developed from an abstract thing to this artwork:

Stevie's Place - teaser

2011-10-26T20:38:00.003+02:00

I thought I could post a little teaser. So here you go!

Stevie 2

2011-09-18T18:40:00.001+02:00

Another version of Stevie .

Hideout

2011-09-16T20:43:00.000+02:00

Another image for a personal project I'm working on and off in my spare time.

Steam Achievements for Pirates of Black Cove

2011-08-06T15:12:00.002+02:00

Fun fact: I am a steam achievement!

http://steamcommunity.com/stats/PiratesOfBlackCove/achievements

Pirates of Black Cove ingame video

2011-08-03T21:53:00.002+02:00

Here is a clip from the demo which shows some graphics I did for the game.
For example the menue background, UI icons and the first cutscene at the beginning, which was a beast ... I finished it in 2 working days. There are more of them in the game. I'm curious to see how all turned out, as I didn't animate them, just provided the layered images.

Pirates of Black Cove was released today!

2011-08-02T22:14:00.002+02:00

Yeah it's out now and I'm happy to finally get this game started and see what happend to the many hours and days which rushed by so fast in the last few months. My fellows at Nitrogames did a great job from what I saw in trailers and screenshots and the first few reviews are quite positive too.
If you're interested check out this website which refers you to all downloading plattforms which provide the digital copy of the game. Have fun! >>>LINK<<<

And here's the cover artwork with the pirate whom all pirates fear.

Pirates of Black Cove- main character 3: Long Shot Jack

2011-08-02T22:10:00.002+02:00

And here comes the last of the three main characters called Long Shot Jack!

Hope you like these guys!

Pirates of Black Cove- main character 2: Jolie Rogers

2011-07-26T16:03:00.002+02:00

Here comes the next character for Pirates of Black Cove.

Next up: Long Shot Jack

Hiker

2011-07-24T19:38:00.002+02:00

Trying something different.

Book Cover

2011-07-20T18:47:00.003+02:00

Before I post the next pirate character, I'm gonna post a little commission first I finished today. It's for the novel 'Subject 47' by Chris Kramer.

There is also a facebook page for news and updates around the book, which was launched recently.

Pirates of Black Cove- main character 1: Walker de Planc

2011-07-18T22:40:00.004+02:00

Hey folks, long time no see!
I was pretty busy with moving house and ... not having internet... but now I'm back online and want to share some of artworks for the upcoming PC game "Pirates of Black Cove" which will be released August 2nd.
I showed you some concept art several weeks ago. This time I'll show you ingame artworks which have been used for ingame graphics for UI, loading screens, etc.

It's the first of the 3 main characters called Walker de Planc:

Next one will be Jolie Rogers!

Swamp Bird

2011-04-15T00:28:00.005+02:00

I uploaded a horrible doodle yesterday night, which I just had to delete again this morning. But I gave it another chance and invested more time in the doodle bird. Now it's a speedy bird.

3D Version of Mastema

2011-04-12T09:46:00.003+02:00

Maybe you remember my artwork for the Dominance War 4 in 2009 which is showcased on my main website. Well, some weeks ago Jit Chun Khiew from Malaysia asked for permission to take my concept further and make a 3D model from it for his reel .
Now it's finished and turned out pretty cool. Check it out!

Mastema Modeling Reel 2011 By JcCreation from Jccreation on Vimeo.

Link to my concept art on yakonusuke.com

Artbattle 2011

2011-04-10T22:08:00.004+02:00

Once again I will participate in the artbattle on digitalartforum.de.

The basic rules are:
-Design a character
-Paint a picture how your character beats the character of another artist
-The community votes for it's favorite fight
-The best artist wins.

Well and here comes my little fighter. Kushi. She's from Mongolia and is pretty good in training birds!

Siedler 7 / Settlers 7 Cover

2011-03-08T23:29:00.003+01:00

I haven't much spare time for private paintings, but I recently found something maybe worth to post here.
This Cover for the Gold Edition of Settlers 7 was a commission I did in fall 2009 for Bluebyte/Ubisoft, though with a landscape as background. So only the characters and the stuff on the ground is painted by me.

Pirates of Black Cove

2011-02-14T23:51:00.015+01:00

The upcoming game "Pirates of Black Cove" from Nitro Games has be announced recently at the Paradox Event in New York. I had the pleasure to define the visual style and do concept art for it. Some of which I may showcase here now.

The next 3 images depic the captains of 3 of 4 different pirate factions:

Some of the sketches for the pirate units and buldings in the game:

Hope you like 'em. More to come.

© 2011 Nitro Games Alpha Ltd. “Pirates of Black Cove” is a trademark of Nitro Games Alpha Ltd. All rights reserved.

Today's Output

2011-02-09T01:08:00.004+01:00

I got here 2 little paintings. For the first one there is only Tron to blame, which I finally saw today. Fantastic art and design. So I wanted to do some shining stuff as well.

And the secound one just happend, while I didn't know what to paint.

Lonesome Cowboy

2011-02-06T16:31:00.003+01:00

The Collector

2011-01-23T16:46:00.004+01:00

On digitalartforum.de Daniel Lieske offered the chance to publish fanarts on his blog and also a favorite of these in the credits of the first chapter of his webcomic Wormworld Saga. So I made the following artwork. Check out his blog for the other great entries by some fellow artists!

Stevie

2011-01-02T15:44:00.003+01:00

This is a little teaser for a private project I'm working on in my sparetime.

Ho-ho!

2010-12-24T13:54:00.004+01:00

I think this year needs one last post.
First, here are 2 images from this years Secret Santa on digitalartforum.
The upper one is done by me for Chinasky / Holger Kirste who did some cool fan artworks for "the Song of Fire and Ice" , also known as "Game of Thrones". I illustrated a scene from the first book which I thought was one of the more important scenes and also because it had this christmas feeling to it... but with more blood and dead animals... erm..

In return a received the following image which was made by digitaldecoy/ Daniel Lieske , showing my steampunk Blackbeard as Santa. A great surprise and present.
By the way- you better go check out the first chapter of Daniel's brand new online graphic novel on daniellieske.blogspot.com . There's some magic going on there.

So have some nice holidays and a happy new year, guys!
2011 will be very interesting, so stay tuned.

Pirate Sketch

2010-11-17T20:46:00.002+01:00

...formerly known as brush test!

Wiley

2010-11-07T23:28:00.002+01:00

The harpoon supplier.

François

2010-11-07T00:31:00.004+01:00

This one's for the weekly challenge on digitalartforum.de

Subject is to paint a member for a whaler crew. Florian Biege is the initiator and provides the background. The character François is done by me- he's responsible for filleting the whales.

Jack-o-Lantern

2010-10-29T18:42:00.004+02:00

I thought it would be fun to try a jack-o-lantern once. So I went for it today and am quite happy with the result.
I also made a small step by step for the lantern and the soup a made out of his brain. :)

approaching winter

2010-10-27T11:53:00.002+02:00

A humble header I made for the digitalartforum.de weekly challenge.

Ugly as a mud fence

2010-10-13T00:25:00.001+02:00

Monster Speedy

2010-10-10T20:30:00.003+02:00

Executioner Speedy

2010-09-22T00:12:00.000+02:00

Birthday Present

2010-09-21T12:16:00.005+02:00

I made another little present for my nephew Elias, who yesterday had his first birthday.
It's an measuring block ( I hope this makes sense ) where his parents can mark every step of his growth.

I bought the gecko at an art supply store, colored it and wrapped it in multicolor yarn. Took me quite a while to accomplish that... ^^

Me at GamesCom 2010

2010-09-05T01:33:00.003+02:00

Just wanted to post this picture of me at gamescom 2010 in cologne. I was pretty surprised when I came into this hall and saw that one of my recent job artworks was showcased there. :]

Droidsong Cover

2010-08-30T17:06:00.000+02:00

Lately I had the chance to do a cover for a droidsong release. A little commission that will be released in november or december, but already can be seen here.

A present for my nephew

2010-08-29T19:32:00.009+02:00

Today my nephew Elias ( 11 months young ) was christened. For this event I wanted to do something special and memorable. So I spent the last few days for these 5 little 3D artworks which together form the letters E L i A S. A bit tricky to recognize if you don't know, but I don't mind.
Main thing is that some day he hopefully will enjoy them. : )

Credit goes to Vicky for helping me with the frames!

And an overview with no specific order.

Gunner

2010-08-18T00:02:00.002+02:00

A little speedpaint

Study

2010-08-17T01:36:00.002+02:00

Random Zombie

2010-08-06T15:51:00.001+02:00

..for a change.

Abstract Study

2010-08-05T22:43:00.003+02:00

Abstract Study

2010-08-04T23:30:00.006+02:00

My daily studies are kinda evolving into color and abstract form studies... I like it though. :)

It's not like I didn't try, but the study I wanted to include just destroyed this abstract background, so I just removed it and left it as it was.

Fruit

2010-08-04T01:05:00.005+02:00

I recently finished a small animation which was lurking on my hdd for some weeks.

Fruit from yakonusuke on Vimeo.

Daily Study

2010-08-03T20:00:00.002+02:00

More stillifes, but
less colors than the
last one. Will do more on the
next one again!

Goomba!!

2010-08-02T23:06:00.004+02:00

Today I recieved this awesome handmade goomba keyring from my superbestfriend.
Jealous? I know you are.

Daily Study

2010-08-02T22:39:00.001+02:00

Daily Study

2010-07-30T16:01:00.002+02:00

A very quick one I couldn't finish now. Because the light wouldn't be the same later today I won't finish it, so I post it as crappy as it is.

Daily Study

2010-07-29T21:20:00.002+02:00

Today I decided to do a quick study everyday for... ever... or as long as it takes.
At least I did one this evening. It took about 1 hour then the daylight was almost gone.

My tv and some furniture.

Overpaint

2010-07-01T17:02:00.000+02:00

Today I made this little overpaint of my own creature for a thread on Digitalartforum.de.
I remember how I was in dispair giving this creature a slimey and half translucent skin back then in 2007. It was very satisfying to achieve today where I failed 3 years ago.

Tribute to Syd Mead

2010-07-01T13:36:00.001+02:00

I participated in the NVart contest "ACCELERATE
Images of future transport : In the style of Syd Mead" on CGSociety.

I wouldn't have guessed how hard it would be to do such paintings like Syd Mead does...
Great artist. I learned a lot just by studying his awesome art.

B-Movie Winners Announced!

2010-06-17T22:59:00.002+02:00

Guess what! :)

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5718&page=3

Night of the Living Geek

2010-03-22T14:51:00.000+01:00

"With the golden age of computer people started to disappear. Only a few in the beginning but increasingly more and more. Nobody knew what happend to them. But now they are back! Risen from their dark basements they came to format all. It's the night of the living geek."
A shocking horror-comedy you would die for to watch.
Directed & Produced by Jakob Eirich
Starring Gerry Kasparow, William Gates & Albert Onestone.

Another big challenge on CgSociety.org came to an end a few days ago and I couldn't resist to participate. The theme was "B-Movie" and again many high class artists joined in and brought us a very broad range of ideas and style. I reckon the results will be announced end of april after the deadline of the video part of the challenge. I'm very curious about that, but the fun part for me is over anyways. :)

2 Speedpaintings

2010-03-17T12:11:00.000+01:00

BumBot

2010-03-16T13:10:00.000+01:00

Hi there!
I created this blog to gather all my stuff in one place, no matter what medium or how small or big and stuff I maybe don't show in my online portfolio.

To start off here is a speedpaint I did yesterday just for fun. It's clearly inspired by Goro Fujita's happy bots, but I tried to give a twist. It's the secound one in my little Bumbot-series.

Enjoy your stay! :)