The Energon Pub

by **Joshua Vallse** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:52 am

agentdc7 wrote:You got a great gallery here. Sorry I never replied earlier. Your drawing style is very unique. It has a water color-esqe look to it.

No apologies needed, and thank you for the compliments. You know it's funny, you mentioned a watercolor look to my style, and for some reason I never noticed it till now, good eye. I'm still working on trying to get more artwork posted here, hopefully I can post something very soon.

Thanks again for the compliments.
Josh

by **KingScallop** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:08 pm

...

I think that's all i need to say.

by **Joshua Vallse** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:05 am

PaskyTheLad wrote:...

I think that's all i need to say.

Thank you, now if only I could make the ladies drool......
Anyways, here's my latest. Actually this still is rather old, but again, computer issues I had back in 09 ha ha ha. These are pen sketches I did for a treatment of Unicron. I kept a sapien look only because it strikes me as more ominous, this giant human form walking towards your planet, like an ancient greek myth or something. I also kept some of Jetfires beard structure to form Unicrons, but made it more menacing like Saurons Helm in LOTR....luved that design.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... hstudy.jpg

And here is the sketch treatment I posted earlier here in this thread. The finished sketch treatment, now I am currently working on it in PS, which is coming out pretty interesting. I'll post it as soon as I'm finished.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... file01.jpg

Alright hope you guys like. Post any comments you might have being these designs are in their early stages. So I'm still kind of playing around with stuff.

Josh

by **KingScallop** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:07 pm

Ominous look Unicron you got there! :shock:

You said you've worked on some games before.
Please, do, enlighten us.

by **Joshua Vallse** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:50 am

Ah, my finished Unicron for all who are interest.

I did two versions, this is mostly a bust piece really, but one I kept the classic eye color, and the other I did more of a reddish color, surprisingly I prefer the classic better but I posted both to get your guys opinions. Also, if you look closely, you'll see a guest star in this piece of art as well ^_-

Anyways, I made this piece with Unicron kind of forming this environment around him, being he's so big he would have his own gravity per say, and therefore an atmosphere of lunar dust or meteor dust or whatever would enter his orbit. I also used actuall pictures of Nebulas and stars for most of the lighting effect, including the crab nebular I used for his chest.

Anyways I hope you guys like.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... icGalv.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... edGalv.jpg

I might do another full body piece for Unicron, and perhaps a treatment for Grimlock. Time will tell.
alright let me know what you think, and which version you prefer.
Laters,
Josh

by **Joshua Vallse** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:54 am

PaskyTheLad wrote:Ominous look Unicron you got there!
You said you've worked on some games before.
Please, do, enlighten us.

Thanks again, hoefully you'll enjoy the colored PS versions I just posted.

Games, oh wow that was a while back when I was in college. Most of the time I worked on FPS, one in particular which has a robot theme. Soon after though I went on to film and design, I'll have to dig around to find something from way back then though. I'll let you know if I find anything.

Laters,
Josh

by **Joshua Vallse** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:41 pm

So I got around to doing a treatment for Unicron's transformed self.
first off though, I realized the pics I have hosted are kind of small being you can't really see all the detail there is in each piece, so here is a close up of Unicron's Head:

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... loseup.jpg

And a close up of the guest star featured in the palm of Unicron's hand:

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... loseup.jpg

I've edited the older pics from this page because i got better pics! See latest post for details ^_^

by **Joshua Vallse** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:15 pm

UPDATE!

So, I took down alot of the other Unicron artwork because, well I really didn't like it. I mean it was neat, but wasn't doing it for me. thankfully I did newer artwork to replace it. So, to recap here's the older piece I had up before....

OLD:

And here are the newer versions. I replace the BG, put alot more detail into the design, and toned down the saturation as well. and it just looks better too, this one I am happy with.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... ampWEB.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... mpBust.jpg

And finally I re-done space version of Unicron. Basically I retouched some of the lighting and blended the more detailed drawing into this piece, so so so much better.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... ampWEB.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... mpBody.jpg

Alright so I hope you enjoy these. Sorry about taking down the other art, But I had replacements ready. And again, would love some feed back from you guys.
Laters,
Josh

by **Joshua Vallse** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:58 pm

More artwork I found, mostly of the video game stuff and older film stuff I had worked on back in the day as requested. Some matte paintings and robot designs and Helmet soldier renders and stuff. Some done in watercolor or pen or render pencils or digitally, all fun pieces.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... vision.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... Resize.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... bot_JB.jpg

More coming soon

by **Joshua Vallse** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:58 pm

Recently made a new website to host all my art, they hosts for free so take a gander if you want to create your own:

http://www.wix.com/JoshuaBallze/Art-Website

And more of my previous contract work as requested:

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... loseup.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... tArt03.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... tArt04.jpg

There's more floating around, but till I find it I hope you enjoy these.
Josh

by **Joshua Vallse** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:16 pm

Ah,
Found two more pieces form that V-Game contract I did way back when. And yes, I drew this waaaayyyyy before ROTF and their fubar contructicons, 7 years before in fact....wow I feel old.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... oboJox.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn12 ... tedweb.jpg

Alright, till my next monster-piece
Josh

by **zenosaurus_x** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:33 am

DANG is all I can say.
Amazing artwork here...I like Unicron's guest, and I find it kinda funny how he's on fire.

by **Joshua Vallse** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 6:53 am

zenosaurus_x wrote:DANG is all I can say.
Amazing artwork here...I like Unicron's guest, and I find it kinda funny how he's on fire.

Hey thanks Zenosaurus!!!! Sorry I haven't replied and posted more art, I've been drawing dinosaurs for a mag called Prehistoric Times. It's been fun, hopefully I'll be back to robots soon enough though and I'll have something more to post.

Yeah featuring him with Unicron seemed fun, like a easter egg ya kind of notice after you've taken a few glaces at it ha ha.

Laters
~Josh

by **Joshua Vallse** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:48 am

New project coming up which has me building me more giant robots. Right now I'm working on a mechanical to scale replica of a Sabertooth Fatalis for a science show pitch. I'll be loading images and work progression here for the duration of this project. Here's some concept art and pic of the work-in-progress skull (60% complete).

Mind you the teeth are placeholders, I need to find 1 ft blades to retro-fit onto the head so we can cundust alot of fun tests....for science ha ha ha.

Hope oyu guys enjoy!
Josh

News Credits: 1 · by **MightyMagnus78** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:16 pm

WOW!

Unicron, really looks like a bad ass supernatural Norse God or something. Truly amazing work my friend. :APPLAUSE:

by **Joshua Vallse** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:14 am

MightyMagnus78 wrote:WOW!

Unicron, really looks like a bad ass supernatural Norse God or something. Truly amazing work my friend.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I really wanted to carry this mythological presence to Unicron, and I think giving him his own nebulous atmosphere (Due to his sheer size) really helps interpret this. I'm glad it carried out well. Thanks again for the feed back. Keep a look out being I'm building yet another giant robot. Ha ha ha
~Josh

by **Joshua Vallse** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:51 am

Alright, another update on what I'm now dubbing as Project "X". First some artwork and renderings on what I'm planning to do.

As you can see, unlike the pervious two robots which were used for props or were workig suits, this one for the most part will be functional. Meaning the claws and arms have to be functioning enough to take a swipe at something and hold, along with fold onto and transform out of the front of a working motorcycle for various test reasons. And the head, well the head has to do alot of gruesom stabbing. As for reasons why, I have them...reasons that is...but I'll disclose them when this project is close enough to finished.

Anyways I finally got the working blades for the front saber fangs as pictured here:

Which were then fitted into the mouth of this bot, code name "Fatalis", along with other functioning blades for the lower mandible as illustrated here:

The end result is a wicked mouth full of pain. As pictured here:

Anyways the skull is about 85% complete, I just need to set up the optical LED's which will make up Fatalis' eyes. Then it's on to constructing the arms and claws. Here are a few more pics of the head to enjoy, when the eyes are installed and the head painted I'll be sure to post more pics :grin:

Alright I hope you enjoy.

Project Status: Ongoing_

by **Joshua Vallse** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:44 am

More fun updates on Project X muahahaha!

First off, I've aquired a Bike which will serve as host to project: R4V4GE, also known as Fatalis. Here are some pics of the bike as well as the Fatalis skull so i get a feel of rough placement.

The owner of the bike is very excited to see what I build. Also here's a few pics of he LED eyes I've recently installed into the Fatalis skull, as well as the eye casings themselves which will go over the LED's.

And finally, here's how the Fatalis skull looks with it's newly installed eyes, I luv how this project is turning out so far!!! XD

by **Joshua Vallse** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:46 am

Here's one last pic of the Fatalis skull, I just liked how the lens flare looks ha ha. Alright, I'm on to working on the chest cavity and arms/claws. I'll post updates here of things as they..ahem..."Transform"

I hope you guys enjoy.

Project Status: Ongoing

by **Joshua Vallse** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:07 am

New pics of Fatalis, as you can see I have the skeletal structure for the chest, neck, and arms all worked out and built as well as the neck fleshed out in terms of armor and mechanics. So far, it's turning out very very very well indeed.

Here's a closer look at the nech, the armor segments mimick the actual skeletal structure of Smilodon Fatalis, the animal this bot is being modeled after.

Next I'll move onward to the shoulder blades and chest..and so on and so forth, I plan to be done with construction by this week. Hopefully ha ha ha

Project Status: Ongoing

by **Joshua Vallse** » Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:16 am

My first viral vid of this ongoing project is up on youtube.
The purpose of these vids are to give a behind the scenes look at how myself and many others make this teaser tralier possible. There are more of these vids coming, I have two made but only one up and posted, I'll post the other sometime Monday with footage of the bike and the stunt rider.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL7Xzz0Q ... rofilepage

Enjoy!
~Josh

by **Joshua Vallse** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:23 am

Hey guys, so here the 2nd Viral vid i was talking about highlighting the motorcycle that will be used for this project and the stunt rider Steve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Za3NoRwSgU

Now, these vids aren't the same as the finished vid/trailer itself. But they're something fun to watch while things progress. Here though is a still shot from the actual trailer footage we shot today, which was our offical day of filming. Note one of my old creations makes a cameo in the back ground.

Fatalis is pretty much done, the arms and claw mechanics have been fabricated and sorted. I'll post more pics of those so you can see up close how deadly this thing is becoming. I'll also be posting more viral vids from the set, our prop room, more of my wacky staff and camera people, so be sure to check out the you tube channel here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ProjectR4V4G3

Enjoy,
~Josh

by **cgfelker** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:27 pm

What's up Josh. Very good work. Your sculptures are really impressive. I stumbled across your Voltron art while doing research for Robeasts. I'm going to attempt a painting of my own design. Any way congrats on your art man. Very talented.

by **Joshua Vallse** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:42 pm

cgfelker wrote:What's up Josh. Very good work. Your sculptures are really impressive. I stumbled across your Voltron art while doing research for Robeasts. I'm going to attempt a painting of my own design. Any way congrats on your art man. Very talented.

Hey thanks man, yeah the Voltron gig was fun, a bit rushed but fun. I had to pump out those designs pretty much over night, alot of it was for toy desings too so I had to figure out mechanics and how it would all stick, character turn arounds, role play items, lots of nonesense. It would be fun to work on the franchise again sometime in the future.

Thanks again!
~Josh