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Illustration, 3D, logos with & for some of the best directors & companies in entertainment, music & gaming. Also see us on Workbook, iSpot & Capstone.

07/13/2023

LORD ODINFRIGG | Lord of Valhalla Realm One

Don't be fooled by the shiny metal. This dude is one messed up m**o -- well, not really a dude, the problem is at birth. He shared the same embryo as his beautiful sister, and he got the short end of the stick. This character is in constant turmoil fighting his inner demons.

Check out a few of the other Oddinfrigge concepts.

06/22/2023

Queen of the DynoSapiens

She is part of a mind-bending project we have been working on for over a year.

Queen Isadora has a soft spot for humans and especially Doctor Abeba.

She is one of hundreds of characters for Lords of the 7 Realms. To create her, I started with sketches, then evolved her with some AI, Z-Brush, and Photoshop to finesse her detailed features.

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10/27/2022

Spooky little project from the mid-80s. Backgrounds for children's glow-in-the-dark makeup line. These are for the packaging and done by hand in gouache and Prisma pencil. I think they were B&W because the company used glo-ink in the printing. Fast turn-around. We went on to work with a number of kid's cosmetic line projects, our favorite being for Randy Lapin's .lapin company Star Licks.

08/25/2022

Rocketfish Consumer Electronics, 2011
Logo Art Motion Graphics
https://bit.ly/jtdrocketfish

Great project, we enhanced the logo and did a series of motion graphics for the electronics show. Since then of course, software has become so robust and we'd love an opportunity to do more of this type of work.

07/18/2022

WATER WORLD for UNIVERSAL STUDIOS THEME PARK
We worked under the direction of the very talented Kaufman-Seiniger Advertising on several Universal Studios projects. “For the Water World attraction, we went to the attraction at Universal Studios in LA when it was still under construction, we saw a few drawings so we decided to build actual models and shot them for reference to get that hyperreal look. I think our models and illustrations influenced the final attraction.” Dismukes recalls. The key art in a variety of forms was used on billboards, posters, in ads, and merchandise.

07/12/2022

The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were

This was one of those fun projects that I really got into. In 2003, I got a call from Craig Butler and Michael Ochs, Craig explains the project... he wants to get the top album illustrators together and have them pick their favorite group and do an album cover with total freedom—no Art Directors, no censorship—total freedom guaranteed. In the previous decade, many of the companies especially in the music industry had let their top Art Directors go to save money. What replaced these directors were either junior level staff or people with little experience. Design was by committee and controlled by the bean counters. I was also part of the amazing design team that designed the actual book cover art for the book, merch and website.

I picked Ozzy Osbourne, plus I did the show cover and merchandise. The opening show was a huge hit and toured the world for over two years culminating at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame invited a select few to speak at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame including Craig Butler, Michael Ochs, John Van Hammersfield, Anita Kunz and Marc Burckhardt. It was a lot of fun spending time other extraordinary artists.

It was ironic that I returned to the place I was born, Ohio some 30 or so years later being honored at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Yeah, it is a long way to the top if you want to rock ‘n’ roll, yeah 30 years later!!

Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles California, 2003
Track 16 was a blast not only did my posse show up but I had my favorite girl with me, the talented and beautiful Jo-Anne Redwood. It was also great seeing people I haven’t seen in years and really fun location was fun doing the panel question answers afterward also.

jtd.gallery, dismukes.com and guestbook: https://jtd.gallery/enter-if-you-dare/

07/06/2022

RADEON VIKING PACKAGING

In 2003, Dismukes was hired to do a series of Viking illustrations for a new packaging theme for Radeon — a brand of computer products, including graphics processing units especially used in gaming.

While challenging, it presented Dismukes with an opportunity to push 3D illustration, building the majority of characters in 3D programs and further enhancing them in 2D programs like Photoshop. After this successful launch, Dismukes made a conscious effort to push the limits afforded with 3D programming. Recurring themes of mythic creatures, use of textures, dramatic angles and forced perspectives allowed Dismukes to develop this entire series of characters.

07/02/2022

The beverage industry has been really good to us — we've done a lot of ads, displays, logos and even packaging for a variety of great companies. This is for Mojito, and it shows sketch to final art for ad ad. The finish is digital but the sketches are pencil. Anything original will be sold, so if you're looking for some great artwork, def sign up on our eblast list to stay informed.
https://jtd.gallery/enter-if-you-dare/

06/21/2022

RIP Ron Rice — We didn't know he had just recently passed away. He was a really nice guy, and humble. We went to his over the top wedding in 1990, Daytona Beach when he married Darcy, Hawaiian Tropic beauty for his Suntan lotion line.

We had an incredible PR Agent, Lexi Capp and Ron wanted us to do a JTD portrait of Darcy. He loved it and they flew us out to the beyond-beyond wedding, with real sand castles, horse drawn carriages with no expenses spared. Wolfman was there too - but it's a big blur. The party continued in Hollywood and we remember at least two of many guests including Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme which resulted in "a fiery marriage marked by furious fights." [according to The Enquirer] That's a whole different story...

06/17/2022

Warner Brothers is more than just a movie studio — we did a ton of movie posters and we also worked with other divisions. WB Records hired us to do a poster and ads for their 'Grateful Dead' classic collection. We really had to get into the brand of that style of artwork, not something we did a lot of. We blasted their music throughout the studio. It was great fun though and turned out well. The 3 inner CD covers are tip-ins. It was always fun to drive on to the lot, all the lots anyway. I think it's much more rigid now, but we had passes and guards recognized us.

06/14/2022

“John is truly part of the Wolf Pack. Thanks for the great art work”
John Kay Steppenwolf

This was Dismukes’ favorite band growing up. In 1968, Dismukes was a “punk kid with major attitude and a screaming
chopper to much money and a need for speed.” He went through two copies of their first album and three of the second Magic Carpet Ride. According to Dismukes, the opening riff is still one of the best metal openings ever.

This was the first band Dismukes related to. Dismukes saw them in concert along with 3Dog Night and an opening act with a folk singer nobody had heard of yet — Alice Cooper. Dismukes continues “We had timed our medicine to peak on the folk singer. The amps start playing, I’m 18 the curtain opens and our minds are BLOWN. I still have damage to this day.”

Steppenwolf opened with Magic Carpet Ride. Dismukes was in full glory with his trademark sunglasses, something he adopted as part of his brand image.

Image - page excerpt from the Music Catalog for John Dismukes
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06/10/2022

IMHO, book covers are like the movie posters of pre-2000s. Strong image and title are mandatory, and branding — often, when we work on a first title, we end up doing all the future titles because a style is created. This is true of the Crown series by Victoria Aveyard. (Posted on a few days ago) -here's another one. As mentioned, HarperCollins nicknamed us King of Crowns. It's not only an image I love, but crowns give you so much to explore, from amazing shiny, and textured surfaces to jewels, bones, liquids - and of course, they're great to do in 3D... here's another crown from Victoria Aveyard's series, King's Crown

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
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Thursday	9am - 5pm
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