The Spy In Your Car

Here's a juicy Reader's Digest commission for a feature called 'The Spy In Your Car' about the ease with which your automobile's technology could be hacked and potentially misused by abusive partners. The brief required four illustrations based on the, quite terrifying, case studies in the article and covered the themes of vehicular location tracking, virtual stalking and data privacy. The illustrations were created with 3d models that were digitally collaged with textures and photo reference then rendered with an eye-scorching orange/blue palette. Thanks to Karen Matthes for a really satisfying commission to work on. See more work for Reader's Digest on the site here. 

Goin' Hollywood South

A new cover illustration for Atlanta Magazine on the current state of 'Hollywood South' and will it rise again? Atlanta's movie and TV industry has struggled recently so the brief called for a dilapidated Hollywood sign approach for the title with an identifiable Atlanta skyline behind it. I set about building a Hollywood sign in Cinema 4d, see the clean model shot above, as a starting point with the plan to add the levels of distress in Photoshop. For the roughs I proposed two approaches with different framing devices for the central sign/city scene, one featuring a cinema audience and the other a bustling studio set. The studio direction was chosen so I worked up the digital collage and created elements to interact with the Atlanta strap line. Had a lot of fun with this one and am happy with how it came out. See it on the main site here also.

Are We Special?

New work for BBC Science Focus' current issue on the theme of 'Are We Special?' and the origins of Earth and life itself. The brief was to create a cover that could be adapted for a spread illustration featuring Professor Brian Cox. I've done quite a few space-themed illustrations for Focus by now and wanted to try something a little different so had some fun with an eye-popping colour treatment that could be applied to the supplied Cox photography. The main elements of the cover illustration were created in Cinema 4d such as the planets and explosive line design with the stylistic work achieved in Photoshop. Thanks again to long-time collaborator Joe Eden at Focus for the commission. See more work for Focus here.