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Mech Tactics was announced

Joachim Barrum — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:38:20 +0000

Hi everybody, look at that, not a single update during the entire first 3 months of 2012...I guess I can say Happy New Year then! :D
Anyway, I´ve been dead busy art-directing 3 simultanous game productions lately, in our company Artplant. For those that follows us you probably have seen that we are developing Game of Thrones for Bigpoint (I´ll post something from that later on) and also we are doing a Mech tactics RTS game called..well yeah, Mech Tactics :D for DTP (concept made by us entirely). So, here are a couple of bullshots/marketing shots I did for the game, most of it is realtime stuff "slightly retouched". Thanks to Mikael and Ivan for excellent Mech designs. Hope you like them and stay tuned for more to come (though I guess you heard that one before :O )

The Proud Rooster

Joachim Barrum — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:35:27 +0000

Hello again, Christmas is here!

I would like to use this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!!! ...Here´s an image made for "The Proud Rooster", a norwegian chicked brand, cross promoting with the Blåfjell2 movie which I also did a few things for (I´ll post that soon)...My colleague Mikael worked with me on this one. . Go to Illustrations Gallery to see the full image

Come back later this christmas for more updates!

Cheers
Joachim

3 New Environments

Joachim Barrum — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:33:19 +0000

Hello Again, here's 3 background images I did for Hyper. Their client was Bademiljø ( a norwegian bath shop chain). The game was an internal learning program were the employees raced with boats. The images were made to work in a browser with scalable screensize.

Goto Environments gallery to see larger size.

K2 - Norway

Joachim Barrum — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:48:32 +0000

Another day another update :)
Here's a background image/map made for Hyper, as a game background. The players race across the straight road with cars (as a boardgame). The environment is a minimized/cartoonified map of Norway.

Click the image or go to Environment gallery to see a large image version.

Battlestar Galactica Online : Marketing Image

Joachim Barrum — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:41:53 +0000

Hello !
Soon Christmas, and I've been slow this year with updates. As usual the year has been extremely hectic and I've neglected my site. I'll post a serie of images the coming days for various projects towards christmas.

First off, heres a marketing image for our game, Battlestar Galactica.

Check out a larger image in the Illustrations gallery.

Solan & Ludvig character concepts

Joachim Barrum — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:39:26 +0000

Hey again, loooong time between the updates. I am as always busy and don't and therefore the website gets neglected. Here are a couple of quick concept I did a couple of years back for Qvisten Animation. Solan & Ludvig (the character conepts) are well known characters in Norway. Qvisten is doing a short film and asked me to do my take on the characters.

Color Line marketing images

Joachim Barrum — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:47:29 +0000

Hey Everyone! Long time since I´ve done any updates :( Really sorry about that, for those who have kept visiting and seen the same blog entry every time. I´ll get my act together.

Here´s 3 new images in the Illustration Gallery which I recently did with my colleague Mikael. This was for an agency called suburbia, and all illustrations was for a Color Line campaign (Color Line = Large norwegian cruise company). The idea was to make the illustrations depict the typical advertisement style of the 20´s -ish :) But with a modern twist and feel of course. Hope you like them.

My dad turned 60

Joachim Barrum — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:26:35 +0000

Hey, here's another update! My father just turned 60 years old and I made him a caricature. This image has a lot of internal jokes, so I don't expect everyone to understand all that is going on here :) But I hope you like it anyway.

You can see the entire image in the Personal Misc Gallery!

PS! I've removed the comment field below my blog post. I mostly just got spam there so I thought it didn't serve a purpose. But instead I've added a like button...So, please click that "like" button if you like something ;)

Moose in Sunset

Joachim Barrum — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:24:25 +0000

Now what the heck is this ? :D
Well, if you are from Norway you would know that every Norwegian should make a Moose in Sunset once during their career. Well´so here´s my take on the subject. And, even if this is sort of an cliché for use Norwegians, I bet there´s not many artists that have done this kind of motif as a digital painting ;)

Take a look in high resolution in the Personal Miscellaneous gallery.

The reason why I made this is because I was invited to enter an art competition called Share one Planet. I know I said earlier that I would document the process and progression of my entry. But, after I noticed that I hadn´t read the rules properly, and had to start over, i sort of lost motivation for a while. And, since my last months have been very busy with work I just had to take this between here and there whenever I had time . So I apologize to anyone who was looking for sketches ang progress pictures - I promise I will do this some other time with some other picture ;)

New Environment

Joachim Barrum — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:34:05 +0000

Hey, back from GDC 2011 San Francisco. Thought I'd share a new background I recently did for Hyper Interaktiv - made for a Serious Game which I don't know the name of :) Check it out in panorama and higher res in the Environment section!

More stuff is coming soon!

On the side, GDC was a blast and it's amazing what great stuff is coming out these days. But from all the stunning productions I must say that Nintendo's 3DS and the 3D screen which gives you 3D without glasses is what amazed me the most. I can hardly wait to play Zelda in full 3d with this thing. Check it out if you can ;)