MK9 Concepts & MK Redesigns

It's been a long time since I posted and the MK fans out there have been asking to see some of the concept art that I did for MK9.

I was only asked to do a few and with some very specific direction, but I also took the liberty of presenting a few concepts more to suit my own taste, hoping they would want to take the game in that direction. My redesigns.

The first three concepts I did (Reptile, Johnny Cage and Cryax), I had no interaction with the team and are the ones in which I branched out on my own.

I had just rolled off of another project and moved right to MK9 and these were the first pieces I showed to the guys. The first version of Cryax had a face that Ed Boon pointed out to look like Howard the Duck (he was right it did have the shape of Howard the Duck) so I changed that, but that was all I changed.

The next three I did (Milena, Sub Zero & Nightwolf) were directed by the team to look like what they did in MK2. I think they all turned out pretty good, but I was a little disappointed with what I did with Sub-Zero, he was always my fav of the MK characters and I think I could have iterated on him a few more times.

These were the last images I did for Midway Games before I left. I do have a bunch of earlier concepts from different MK pitches that have never seen the light of day. I will post them when the time is right I suppose...

To see my Mk Redesigns: Scorpion, Sub-zero, Kano, Sonya, &; Raiden:     

http://vincentproceart.blogspot.com/2009/09/here-are-never-before-seen-mortal.html

http://vincentproceart.blogspot.com/2010/03/hello-folks-i-promised-that-i-would-try.html

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=170314

check out my pages to see additional work:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vincent-Proce-Studios-Inc/104563609581400

http://www.vincentproce.com/

Magic The gathering_ Vampire Concepts

Hello, my last post was almost 2 months ago already. Unfortunately I haven't really had any time to work on too much more personal work because I have (fortunately!) been getting fairly regular freelance work.
The art I am posting is from the first wave of concept art done for Magic the Gatherings Zendikar release. I did a bunch of concepts for the 2010 releases that I will eventually post here. Below are only the concepts I was doing for the neo vampires. The direction was to make them less monstrous but still keep them in the natural world. The chosen direction was more tribal then what I have posted (which to me is a bit more Egyptian) but you can still see some of the below art influenced in the cards (none of which are posted because I didn't paint any vampire cards). I was pretty happy with what I ended up with even though it wasn't really used.
The art at the bottom of this post was the art that I did on site which had to be done very quickly because we had to concept a lot of stuff out in the two short weeks I was at the main offices.
Thanks for looking.

MTG Zendikar-My full art lands

Here are some Magic the gathering cards that I have done over the past year. I have done over twenty cards and a bunch of concept art for magic which I hope to be posting in the coming months when they are released by wizards. Most of the cards I have done have been lands. I have always concidered myself more of a charcter artist but the guys over at Wizards were able to pull the evironments out of me. All that trianing from Stephan Martiniere finally paid off!
Thanks for checking them out!

My Mortal Kombat Redesigns

Here are the Mortal Kombat characters I re-designed for a Mortal Kombat pitch I made before I left Midway last year. The basis for the idea was a re-imagining of the Mortal Kombat franchise from the original premise.

Scorpion as a wraith wearing the yellow blood of the demon that helped him resurrected to exact his revenge against his mortal enemy.

Raiden as a god who's feet rarely touch the ground.

Sonya, the daughter of a Texas Ranger who's sex appeal weakens her opponents while her Special Forces training kicks their asses.

Kano, half Japanese half US military bad ass. The game idea isn't going to happen now that I no longer work there. I'd still like to one day redesign all the rest of the original characters, if I ever find the time.

Find Sub-zero here:
http://vincentproceart.blogspot.com/2010/03/hello-folks-i-promised-that-i-would-try.html