Blade Runner inspired

Brain study

Futuristic Red Light District

12/16

Zen

Avatarded!

These are not the Droids You're Looking for...

I'm a huge fan of the Uncharted franchise and am itching for the upcoming Uncharted 3.. So I decided to funnel all that enthusiasm into something productive...

Punkerz!!

A candid moment... dunno why, this just kind of sums up LA for me.

Stuff based on Disney/PIXAR's "BRAVE" (2012)

A couple months ago I worked on some paintings for an interactive pitch for Disney/Pixar's upcoming project, "Brave" with Arsonal Design... They ended up not getting the project but, lucky for me, I can now post some of my work!

slightly futurized Downtown LA at sunset!

I freakin' love downtown Los Angeles - both up close and from afar. But I also love sci-fi so this is my interpretation of a Los Angeles that could be.

Some recent stuff...

Somewhere between Blade Runner and Fallout 3...

This piece started out as a noir but ended up as a sci-fi subject... which seems to be a fairly common among most drawing types. Definitely very much inspired by the stagnant backgrounds of many adventure games and RPG's from the early to late 90's where the storage and computational power to render fully detailed backgrounds in real-time wasn't practical.

Red Engine stuff...

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Mike and for those that do... my name is still Mike.

A quick little explanation about the title... Rashomike (a riff on the Japanese film "Rashomon") is a nickname I earned in film school due to my affinity for everything Japanese. 'nuff said.

This blog is meant to showcase my stuff as a digital illustrator and sketch artist but also for fun things and random articles. I'm not sure how much of a blogger that I am but I'm very much excited at giving this a try. Comments are welcome on the artwork. Please be brutal. I'll try hard not to cry...

..I've been taking entertainment design classes at Red Engine in Downtown LA and the following photoshop renderings are some of my more successful homework assignments thus far... The first assignment was to create a garage with at least one vehicle and 3 people in the scene... The last two images are simply desert and ice environments.