ShimmeringSword

Summoner Prototype

This one still needs a few edits done, but a prototype was made anyway so I thought I'd share it off. Skipping showing renders of the 3D model for now due to its unfinished state.

I don't thi...

Nova Prototype

And here is the Nova prototype print made by Dale Eadeh. It's super awesome having him print off these models as soon as they're ready. A quick ink wash and they show off details nicely.

Anyo...

Nova 3D Sculpt

Here's the finished 3D model for the Nova, sculpted by Alan Blackwell, his first official 3D model for Battletech.

It came out quite nicely.

Nova Design Sketch

Sorry for the lighter levels on content this month everyone. I had a heavy work schedule at my side job. The great news is that with your support, next month I'm having my schedule reduced at said ...

Welcome New Patrons!

I've noticed a little burst of new patrons in the last few days. I'm curious where you are coming from / being refered by? Guess that can be a general question for all too. DA, My/BTI/BT/CGL FB pag...

City Trio

Dale wanted me to post a picture of the Shadow Cat with the paint work finished on it, as it was still a little work in progress when revealed.

Enjoy.

Timber Wolf Prototype

Concepts, modeling, and now the real deal!

Still deliberating a bit on the arm pod sizes, but overall I think this came out great.

This is also one of the few designs that has a lot of ...

Timber Wolf 3D Sculpt

Here's the 3D sculpt that Alex Immerzeel finished up a few days ago.

Fun piece of trivia that might blow your mind. I'm the first person to ever design/depict the Mad Cat in the default/prime...

Timber Wolf Concepts

Ok here we go, the Mad Cat! Of course you should have seen this coming, and the Forever Faithful novel cover artwork has been public for a while. I made sure while working on that cover to give the...

Soon

I have a lot of "soon" coming soon haha. You might have noticed this Cat around though.

A Request

Loving the response so far everyone. Your patronage has grown so fast these last two weeks that I've already put in a request to reduce my working hours at my side job. That'll take a month to go t...

Shadow Cat Sculpt

It took us about 4 years to make the journey from "lets redesign the classics" to boxes on shelves. A lot of factors played into that, many out of my control, but what was placed in my control was ...

Shadow Cat

I have a Binary of these omni's lying around, how fast should I be giving them up? :D

Another common theme story here. The Shadow Cat has always been a generally good looking mech, and once a...

Summoner Concept Sketch

Ask and you shall receive, sometimes. Here's your new Summoner / Thor.

I've always thought the Thor looked fine, depending on what version you looked at (I like the Mech Commander era art), s...

Dire Wolf Concept Sketch

Kerensky did create the Atlas, but he also created the Clans, Here's something big with autocannons, lasers, and long range missiles :)

The Dire Wolf is a mech that has generally looked good ...

Misdirection

I feel like I've somewhat mislead you guys with the Orion tease, very soon I'll post another mech tied to Aleksandr Kerensky, something bigger, likewise with a mix of energy, ballistic, and missile...

Archer Lineart Gif

I think this was one of the final pieces of lineart I did before switching over to the method of starting lineart with a finalized 3D model, so you can still see the basic proportion model in play ...

Archer Concept Refinement

Like a handful of redesigns going into this project years ago, the Archer already had a fairly solid design that I had whipped up for the NGNG crew way back, so I could take that art and enhance/ad...

Catapult K2

This is what happens when one of your sculptors has too much time on their hands and access to a 3D printer. Nothing official here of course, but he slapped together a Catapult K2 with arms from th...

$200 Goal Hit!

Thank you everyone, you guys are awesome!

First thanks to the patrons who have stuck around so long and remained for the new focus in my art lately.

Now welcome aboard to the 25 (and st...

Orion Concept Sketch

First look time! CGL has always been very adamant about keeping this kinda stuff secret, so enjoy the early peek.

This is one I kinda started of my own initiative, but was obviously going to ...

Orion References

I don't think it's too obscure of an idea to think that I'm working on more mech redesigns for Battletech, so here's some process work on the Orion to show you all :)

For references I typical...

Ostscout Lineart Gif

Have another Gif. Tilt and more tilt.

For those wondering about my smoke and explosion effects. Instead of hand inking those lines, I use a black edge layer effect in photoshop letting me jus...

Ostscout Angles

Another big upside to using 3D for non 3D art is along with perspective and lighting assistance, you can explore poses and camera angles with very little effort, all without having to worry that yo...

The Oddball

The Ostscout is a mech that was almost impossible to screw up on an improvement level, but I actually enjoyed working on it. Often it's the goofy ugly mechs that are more fun to come up with redesi...

Fat Marauder

Anything else Marauder related that people want to see? I'm not sure how excessive I should go haha. Also, favorite other mech I should cover?

This is an old Marauder design I whipped up for ...

3D Sculpting Overpaints

The art dumping continues.

Here's what my general feedback and enhancements look like during the 3D sculpting stage for mechs. One good piece of art, nor even a set of orthos, can really accu...

Marauder Lineart Gif

First time making an animated gif, decided this would be a nice way to show off the lineart progress/iterations that I used to go through on our old production pipeline of "lineart before 3D". Thou...

Hard Edge Shimrauder

Here's an initial concept for a Marauder miniature. I took this one pretty far before it was decided some fundamental changes were needed that I didn't thing would force well into this existing loo...

Marauder Concept Sketch

Another opinion time. I've got a mountain of previously behind doors production pipeline content I can show off here.

Would you guys prefer I slowly go through mech by mech and break down how...