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RynoZebz
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[2009-02-17 17:28:53 +0000 UTC]
"Illustrator/Concept Artist"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1393; Deviations: 123; Watchers: 369
Watching: 297; Pageviews: 34941; Comments Made: 566; Friends: 297
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: James Jean, Cory Godbey, Paul Richards, Wes Burt, Nik Klein, Ian McCaig, Brian Froud, Yukito KishiroFavorite movies: The Dark Crystal, The Big Lebowski, The Dark Crystal, LOTR, Star Wars, Ghostbusters and many more
Favorite TV shows: Game of Thrones, Lost, Fringe
Favorite bands / musical artists: Pedro the Lion, Sleeping at Last, Arcade Fire, Derek Webb, Yann Tierson, Cinematic Orchestra
Favorite books: Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Game of Thrones
Favorite writers: Tolkien, CS Lewis
Favorite games: The Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time
Favorite gaming platform: Xbox 360
Tools of the Trade: A quill and the blood of the innocents... pencils and paper work too.
Other Interests: Art, film, music, baseball and hockey
# About me
I’ve been making images for as long as I’ve been able to get my little mitts around a Crayola. Some of my earliest memories involve being face down in a pad of paper and scribbling like a wild man in the living room. When I let my mind take me back I can still feel the shag carpet imprinting abstract designs on my skin and the waxy smell of the crayon as I pulled it across the paper.It’s funny to think, looking back, that I’m still completely enamored with doing the very same things today. Sure, now I have a fancy desk and the tools aren’t nearly as crude. But the passion for creating stories and imagining worlds has always remained.
For the last five years I’ve been fortunate to have an outlet for that passion by working in the video game industry. The past year I have worked as a creature and character concept artist for an MMO developer in Las Vegas. Recently that studio unexpectedly closed its doors and now I’m looking for new places to continue living out that love for cultivating the imagination and creating amazing worlds.
If you’re interested in hiring me for my services (full time or contract) I’d appreciate you contacting me via email. I can provide a resume, references and additional samples upon request. I’m very much looking forward to sharing my passion and imagination with you!
Current Residence: Chicago, IL
Favourite photographer: My lovely wife, Sarah Jean
Operating System: Mac OSX
MP3 player of choice: iPhone/iPad
Shell of choice: Conch
Favourite cartoon character: Raphael of TMNT
Personal Quote: "Where is the food?"
# Comments
Comments: 155
Hey, man! It's Ryan from SDCC/Las Vegas. Y'kno, Kevin's friend. ;o) Just wanted to add you here as well as on Facebook to stay in touch. Keep rockin' those sketches, man! And thanks for the Hellboy compliment!
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I know who you are. I saw the image of the viking kid you did. It is also very nice.
I am going to be sending you the information about gigacon in a little bit, so be on the look out for that.
no problem on the hellboy. It looks great.
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Cool, cool! Just wanted to make sure! Which viking did you get a look at? We're still sort of playing around with silhouettes and stuff for that thing. But we're really excited to start unveiling it once it starts shaping up!
I got the info on the Con stuff. Let me look it over more closely and I'll have an answer for you in the next couple days. Would my flight be covered as well? It sounds like a great time but I'll be moving next January so I need to talk it over with the wife first. Y'kno how it is! Ha!
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I am looking forward to the story that they two of you are working on. I saw the grey scale one. Don't know if that helps at all but it was on my phone so I didn't see much
Yes the flight, the hotel and your food would all be covered. And, yes I understand how it is. Just let me know.
Thanks.
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Hey man! Lots of cool creature concepts in your gallery. And some quite original. Too bad you're jobless now. I wish you good luck! You're good at what you do so it will come to you, eventually.
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Thanks! I'm actually been working again for the last 11 months or so but I appreciate the encouragement none the less! I'm glad you enjoyed your browse!
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Here's another awesome artist I found: [link]
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Hi Ryan!
I saw your Game GUI interface design ([link] ) and was extremely impressed by it! It looks absolutely stunning!
I'm currently developing a 2D MMORPG with a team of developers and other artists, but we need more team members, and we are especially in the need of something with GUI skills as awesome as yours!
If you were to become our GUI designer, you can just create images of the GUI elements, no programming experience needed.
Here are some screenshots of the current game! (It's still early in development, and of course, if you were to join, all the GUI elements would be replaced by your awesome work)
[link]
[link]
If you're interested (and I really hope you are), please join our forum at [link] and submit an application! (Please mention that I have already invited you).
Hope to hear back from you!
- Quasar
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Thanks the compliment but I'm not interested. Good luck with your project tho!
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I suppose I should Lama you back. lol Now lets see... how do I do that... Ha!
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MY GOD you did not just watch me. I'm blown away that you take such an interest in my art, thank you thank you!
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lol I think I can follow who ever I like, right? Your environment stuff is good and I'm a fan of Aion. Keep up the great work! I'll be watchin'!
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Oh man I haven't played Aion in weeks, thank you homework. >< But thanks!
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Glad you like it. Thanks for stopping by!
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You are very welcome. I've not been very good at this whole DeviantArt thing. I'm more of a ConceptArt.org and CGHub dude. But there is a huge community here. Need to get to posting! Heh. Hope you're well.
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Thanks, I'm going to try and be better about it.
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Nice gallery. BTW, is your avatar an evil Bob Ross?
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ZOMBIE BOB ROSS! Heh. Thanks for the comment.
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Thanks for the inspiration, I started to get interested in weapon concepts, ui designs and icons. I'll work on something something simple like card layout and work my way up.
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Hope you're still rocking it. People love artists who do that sort of stuff because no one else wants to do it! Ha!
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I'm here to annoy you now~ Haha. >D
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We are working on DoTA Allstars Hero Concept Project , if you are interesting in, join us.
More information about this project at my dA Page:
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Awesome gallery! Your conceptsare really impressive. Greets
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welcome to the DA! I had a coworker that I *think* worked on Hero's Journey
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Oh yea? What was their name? We had a lot of people working remotely on it too.
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You are doing exactly what I just started school for! No idea how to get to where you are from where I am but you are now my Hero!
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I am now your hero? This was a long time ago. I imagine I'm not your hero any longer. lol
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Whats the Website for this title?
Im loving all the fine art you've done
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Thank you. You can check out more info on the game at play.net but I don't think it will ever see the light of day now. Sad, sad.
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