Art of Andrew Kim

Into The Pixel 2011 - Uncharted 3

2011-06-10T19:13:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
My work from Uncharted 3 was selected as one of 17 winners for this year's Into The Pixel.
It was a very pleasant surprise for sure. And it was pretty cool to see the piece hanging on the wall at E3 with other winning selections. Congratulations to other 16 winners at this year's Into The Pixel and hope you guys enjoy the large version of the piece here.

2010 Part 1 - Steampunk Airship

2011-02-16T14:19:00.000-08:00

Hey all,

Sorry about lack of posts here... 2010 was a busy year which means I've got a few things to show but I need to get my hands on them first. :) Well, first of everything is a tutorial I did for Advanced Photoshop Magazine. I had to rush this because my hard drive got fried a few days prior to the deadline so I gave more love after I turned it in. Hope you guys enjoy and more coming soon. :)

It was a tutorial... so I thoguht I show some progress. :)

God of War III Art Book

2010-09-17T11:14:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

Just wanted to share with you guys that the Art of God of War III book is now available for Pre-Order.
Once again, Daniel Wade and awesome folks at Ballistic Publishing did a fantastic job and the book is a BEAUTY!
It was a great experience working with the talented concept artists like Jung Park, Cecil Kim, Izzy Medrano, Andy Park, and Scott Seeto.
I only have a few pieces in the book but kudos to Stig(the game director) and awesome artists over at Sony Santa Monica!
Go order one! You won't regret!

First Book Cover

2010-08-13T19:44:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

Sorry for not posting for awhile...
This has been out for about a few months but thought I'd share with everybody.
I was contacted by a publisher to have one of my personal work used as a cover for their upcoming book by Walter Jon Williams.
I said... "Cool!!" :)

And here's the original image.

The Green Leopard Plague and other stories by Walter Jon Williams published by Night Shade Books.

God of War III

2010-05-25T10:21:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
3 years ago, I had an awesome opportunity to be part of the God of War III team and now I'm finally able to share my work with you guys. It was a year long of incredibly fun time working with the talented team at the Sony Santa Monica office. And the concept team of myself, Andy Park, Cecil Kim, Jung Park, Scott Seeto, and Izzy Medrano had blast working together creating so much fun characters and environments. Not to say it wasn't challenging at all but creating unknown world with infinite possibility was so new to me after working on modern war related games for so long upto that time.
Hope you enjoy and you can see more at my website!

Art of UNCHARTED II and more

2010-05-05T11:05:00.000-07:00

The Art of Uncharted II book is finally arrived and available now. Awesome folks at Ballistic did a fantastic job putting the book together and the book is really awesome. It's definitely worth keeping a copy so go check it out here!

And here are couple of pieces from Uncharted II that I never posted before.

If you order a Special Edition or Limited Folio Edition of the book, you get 20 minutes worth of video recording of concepts by Robh Ruppel and myself. My portion has about 10 minutes of concepting this crossbow for Drake.

And here's a matte painting I did for the Fort level. It actually wasn't used in the game because I had too much details compared to what they already had in the game. :( But it was fun! :)

Hope you enjoy!

Speed Painting Demo

2010-04-01T01:36:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

About a month ago, I was requested to do a speed painting demo for the Digital Artist magazine CD. The magazine and the CD was released recently, so here you go.
It was one of those last minute thing so I rushed a bit but luckily, it came out not so bad, I think.
Hope you guys like it!

You can see it BIGGER HERE

Unleashed - pieces for the Gnomon Gallery

2010-03-12T06:28:00.000-08:00

Hey all,

It's about a week late post but the artists from Naughty Dog are having a gallery show at the Gnomon Gallery.

These are the pieces I have at the show.
It's definitely something different than my usual stuff but man~, I had a blast doing these! :)
Hope you guys enjoy and check out other artists' pieces at the Gnomon Gallery!!

God of War III & more

2010-03-03T09:57:00.000-08:00

Hey all,

Before I joined the Uncharted II team, I worked on God of War III for a year at Sony Santa Monica and the game will be out soon this month. Once the game is out, I'll be able to share my work so check back soon.

For the time being, here's the latest trailer for GoW III.

For last 6 years, I've been doing event renderings for the ESPN Magazine for their Super Bowl After Party. This was done with my good friends at Event Eleven. This year, it was at Fontaine Bleau hotel in Florida. Here's the before & after shot for you guys.

This was done for Samsung & AT&T at this year's Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

Also with Event Eleven, this was done for a club for their possible renovation.
Again, here are the before & after looks.
Enjoy!

Uncharted II

2009-11-11T13:29:00.000-08:00

Finally!!
The game came out a few weeks ago but just never had time to organize my stuff until now. I joined the team from the mid point of production and it's been a quite a ride since then. It was awesome working with very talented artists and it's great to see the game do so well. I became a Buddha master at work after working on so many buddha statues...haha..it was fun. :)
More works are available at my website. Enjoy!

www.andrewkimart.com

Stepping away from the Giant series for once... :)

2009-06-30T16:12:00.000-07:00

I actually started out this piece for the dominance war, but the remaining time was too short so ended up spending some time to come up with an interesting design. I had quite a fun time doing the mechanical piece from the 3rd giant, so I gave another try with this one. Comments/crits are welcome! Hope you enjoy.

WIP - I started out with two human cyborgs in one body but I had difficult time where to give a focal point, so sadly, I took out the bottom one and kept it simple...still kinda like the original sketch...hmmm...

Working on UNCHARTED II is all about doing environments and statues. I haven't done any human character since GOD OF WAR III... so I thought I should do one just to keep myself balanced on both areas. :)

Earrings!!!

2009-06-19T00:49:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm sure this is not something you'll find often at the concept artist's blog but this is art too! So here goes. :)

Some time ago, my wife started to make her own jewelry as a hobby and with some interests shown by close friends and people, she started to sell them. Recently she decided to put these up and sell on-line at Etsy.com. It's a cool website for selling only handmades and vintage stuff.

So please check it out! Everything at her store is handmade with sterling silver, swarovski crystals, and/or gold filled. If you have any questions regarding the products/purchase, you can email her through her store or email me. Here's the address to her store at Etsy.com.

Thank you all!

http://www.paala525.etsy.com/

http://paala525.wordpress.com/

3rd Giant and more

2009-03-05T15:15:00.000-08:00

Wow... it's been such long time since my last post...sorry for being so lazy... Well, I finally got my act together to do some personal piece and here's the next giant for the series. Obviously, it's a bit different from the previous two as I had this big desire to do some mechanical stuff...hope you enjoy. :)

This was a freelance work I did for a studio that I can't mention now but got a permission to post. It's suppse to be a creature that morphs from a bacteria/cancer cell.

This was done for a commercial pitch... for Keno...bit hard to relate but it was fun. :)

I do event renderings time to time for a company called Event Eleven and one of their consistent clients has been ESPN Magazine. For past 5 years, I've done paintings for their Super Bowl Party. This year, 2009, we decided to do it in a magazine format and this is what we came with. If you own a company and need to hold an event/party, go to people at Event Eleven. These guys are the major leaguer in the industry. :)

2nd Giant

2008-08-17T21:34:00.001-07:00

Here's the second giant for the series.

Once again, I tried to create an interesting scene involving the giant without giving all the details.

I tried yet another different approach doing this one... hope you guys like it and please let me know any comments/crits you have. :)

starting a series...

2008-07-24T22:21:00.000-07:00

Thought I would start a series involving a giant in the piece...and here's the 1st one to kick off.

I took a different approach on doing environment piece for this one...something I learned from a friend of mine, Jung, from Sony... it was definitely a lot of fun and learned quite a bit!! :)

Comments and Crits please!!

a recent piece

2008-07-08T07:50:00.000-07:00

Finally, I have something recent stuff to show... please let me know any comment/crits you have. Thanks!

More pieces...

2008-07-08T07:38:00.000-07:00

Some more works... would welcome any comments/crits :)

Previous Artworks

2008-07-02T05:39:00.000-07:00

These are some previous artworks. More available at my website.

http://www.andrewkimart.com/

Welcome!!

2008-07-02T03:58:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog!

Thanks for stopping by. This is my first time starting one so I'm excited and a bit scary that everyone is able to see my work... so I'm nervous but looking forward to meeting lots of great artists out there. Please don't hesitate to give me any suggestions or crits on my artwork as those are always priceless. :) Hope you enjoy.

Andrew