Mark Tompkins blog

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2012-02-05T14:45:00.000-08:00

Just having some fun playing around with the cool 3d program Vue. Quick works in progress which I may work up later on..

water spell pt1

2012-02-01T01:15:00.000-08:00

1st part to the water spell within the room of requirements scene when up against the fiend fire

Pirates

2012-01-26T01:26:00.000-08:00

Again, based off of an earlier concept. This was a matte painting concept that I made for one of the London scenes in Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides.
Tim Hollyman did a great job at almost keeping it exactly as I made it here, for the final matte painting in the film.

quidditch pitch

2012-01-25T01:18:00.000-08:00

Based off of some earlier concepts, I produced these as a guide for the vfx

2012-01-22T14:50:00.000-08:00

a couple of study sketches from movie stills

Deathly hallows

2012-01-18T01:28:00.000-08:00

A rather quick water spell that Harry casts within the room of requirements scene

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2

2012-01-16T11:13:00.000-08:00

here's an example of some of the preliminary stages that I would go through when designing some fx concept on a sequence.
For this particular shot the last frame was then passed onto Andrey to add some character design to Nagini's Death and the release of the Horcrux

2012-01-15T15:01:00.000-08:00

a view of our courtyard

2011-12-12T15:34:00.001-08:00

ireland clouds

Andrey

2011-12-05T14:31:00.001-08:00

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2011-11-03T14:59:00.000-07:00

this weeks quick pose session at work

life drawing

2011-10-29T10:44:00.000-07:00

sketch study

2011-10-17T15:19:00.001-07:00

sketchbook pages

2011-10-17T14:07:00.001-07:00

Toy maker

2011-09-11T23:31:00.000-07:00

jar critters

2011-08-28T10:05:00.000-07:00

paid a short visit to the Hunterian Museum and Archives yesterday for a quick catch up and brief sketch. They have some great things in jars, highly recommend going if you haven't been before

sketches

2011-08-25T15:12:00.000-07:00

a handful of sketchbook pages and some life drawing sketches. very bad at updating frequently, shall try harder!

2011-06-21T23:37:00.000-07:00

2011-06-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

View from boston airport

2011-05-28T15:21:00.000-07:00

Sketch on the ipad

2011-05-10T16:32:00.001-07:00

photo studies

2011-03-10T15:13:00.001-08:00

sketchbook pages

2010-11-06T10:56:00.000-07:00

study

2010-09-07T05:54:00.001-07:00

New Job

2010-05-18T01:30:00.000-07:00

From next week I will be working within the concept department at the Moving Picture Company

http://www.moving-picture.com/index.php/film.html
Very excited and can't wait to push my skills to the next level!
be back soon...

sketchbook pages

2010-05-18T01:19:00.000-07:00

Sneak peek

2010-03-30T12:14:00.000-07:00

A sneak peek at what I am working on at the moment, updates soon.

*Note to self* Need to update new images to my website

Office life

2010-03-19T11:08:00.000-07:00

Office life. Surrounded by monitors. I would like a studio one day :)

Sketch

2010-03-10T06:10:00.000-08:00

V&A sketches and sketchbook page

2010-02-04T14:17:00.001-08:00

Sketchbook out and about

2010-01-10T07:34:00.000-08:00

life drawing

2010-01-09T05:18:00.000-08:00

more art

2008-06-26T01:14:00.000-07:00

I decided to scan some 1hour pastel sketches today,inspired by some of the pixar sketch artists - I havnt used these before, so it was fun trying this new medium out.

2008-06-11T15:41:00.000-07:00

Ive been in Cambridge around a year and half now and still havnt been on the punts!I cant believe it!When the sun is out, its a beautiful place to just stand and watch it do its thing.

..I was kind of viewing all these trees together as a sort of patchwork, rather than seperate elements.

2008-06-05T23:59:00.000-07:00

Hi again, this image is a lunchtime study (about 20mins) of an alien figurine which was causing havoc on someones elses desk, I had to capture its mini terror! :)

Hello and welcome!...

2008-04-08T14:37:00.000-07:00

Hi and welcome to my new blog...to start things off below are a few of my life drawings and studies...I will try and update as much as possible :) ..3rd pic down was painted on my nintendo ds. Quite fun once you get past the tiny screen!