jason hazelroth

RoboCop redesign...Redesign

2012-01-17T12:20:00.000-08:00

My second attempt at a RoboCop redesign.

OCP Swat suit

2012-01-11T16:20:00.000-08:00

Been awhile since I've done some RoboCop work, or personal work in general. I wanted to design the OCP swat suit. The suit is incorporating some of Robocop's technology such as nano enhanced strength, armor, and his advanced visor display. I wanted it to look derivative of Robocop but much more raw with exposed tech. It was fun to design so I hope to be able to do more of them soon.

MW3 marketing

2012-01-06T17:38:00.000-08:00

The amount of marketing on MW3 was crazy and overwhelming. I wanted to chronical some of it by collaging some of the media I saw online, at E3, on billboards and during COD XP. I was back in LA while the marketing was really ramping up and and I was seeing it on every website, every billboard, and even buildings. MW3 was marketed across all sorts of products from Mountain Dew, glasses, earphone, and Jeeps. It's strange and exciting to see your project plastered everywhere and I'm thankful to have had the opportunity to work on something that so many people enjoy.

MW3 Concept Artwork

2012-01-06T16:39:00.000-08:00

VGA winner

2011-12-21T18:02:00.000-08:00

Hurrah! MW3 won best shooter at the 2011 VGA awards.

old school artwork

2011-08-05T23:39:00.001-07:00

just found some oldies but goodies from my school days. This was back in the days when I was still using traditional mediums. I remember proclaiming that I would never use the computer. And yeah... that was my self portrait

Goodbye to Sledgehammer

2011-07-31T07:47:00.000-07:00

So yesterday was my last day at Sledgehammer and I'm sorry to be leaving such a great team and awesome studio. Since the first day I started I've felt nothing but welcomed and respected. The whole team had a feeling comraderie and purpose that I've never experienced at another studio, and it was a direct result of the open and experienced leadership of the studio. I sincerely enjoyed my time at Sledgehammer and I look forward to the release of MW3. I know people will enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it.

the concept team

MW3

2011-06-14T00:09:00.001-07:00

For the past year I've been working on Modern Warfare 3. Its been a great experience working with a really talented, and motivated team. This is the best game I've worked on, and I can't wait to get schooled by trash talking 10 year old kids in multiplayer. MW3 is coming out Nov. 8th so keep an eye out for it.

Udon MegaMan Tribute book

2011-05-27T22:00:00.000-07:00

It was an honor to have my work selected to be in the MegaMan tribute book. You should check it out cause there's alot of great artists featured in there.

Nuclear Dawn

2011-05-27T21:28:00.000-07:00

Years back while I was still in college I worked on a Mod game called Nuclear Dawn. It was a great experience and I had the opportunity to work with alot of up and coming artists. Most of all I gained some real world experience. I ended up getting a job and moving out to LA before the project was done, but now years later I saw a trailer for the game and it looks great! I'm proud to say I was a part of this and I can't wait to try it for myself. Great job to the team.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWNtLTE48nQ

Bike for Kam

2011-05-27T20:47:00.000-07:00

Bike for Kam was a tremendous success and we ended up exceeding our $20,000 goal by raising $22,123!

Thanks to everyone to helped spread the word about our cause and a big thank you to our donors and the bike riders. The trip was life changing experience for us and them and we are extremely grateful for everyone who was involved.

Thank You

http://bikeforkam.com/

Bike for Kam

2011-04-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

My wife Kam and I have recently launched a new fundraising campaign called “Bike for Kam” http://bikeforkam.com/ to raise funds and awareness towards the disease HIBM (Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathies). HIBM is a rare genetic disorder that causes progressive muscle wasting and weakness. Muscle degeneration usually starts around the age of 20 – 30 and can lead to very severe disability, or even a quadriplegic state within 10 – 20 years.

My wife Kam is afflicted with this terrible disease which is why we both work very hard to fundraise for ARM http://www.hibm.org/arm/ (Advancement of Research Myopathies), the organization which is researching to find a cure of HIBM.

Bike for Kam http://bikeforkam.com/ is about a group of friends coming together to complete a coastal bike tour from San Francisco to Santa Monica (Los Angeles) on April 25 to April 29, 2011. The purpose of their journey is to raise funds and awareness for Kam, and for all those afflicted with HIBM. Through this project we hope to raise awareness of HIBM, so that we may soon find a cure for this rare genetic muscle debilitating, and degenerative condition.

Bike for Kam http://bikeforkam.com/ is a grass roots project which means we are counting on you to donate and pass it around your community. Post it on Facebook and Twitter, and email it to whoever you think would be interested. Please take a little time to check out the site and to view our promotional video. A cure is within reach but we need your help to get there.

Deep Realms

2011-03-25T15:30:00.000-07:00

Recently Playdom released its latest RPG "Deep Realms"

I did much of the preproduction work on this game during my time at Playdom, and I have to say that the final result looks stunning. Deep Realms is a deep RPG game with an appealing look that should appeal to the hardcore enthusiasts, and casual players alike. The team at Playdom should be very proud as all their efforts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz7ON4mp40Q

Cave design

2011-03-25T15:09:00.000-07:00

Look and feel development for the Cave level, as well as layout design and textures.

The UI and characters were done by Jillian Ogle http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=22689351&authType=name&authToken=VlDP&trk=tyah and Scott Saunder http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=13062167&authType=name&authToken=C3iH&trk=tyah

Desert environment

2011-03-25T15:06:00.000-07:00

Desert look and feel, and layout designs.

Farm Designs

2011-03-25T15:00:00.000-07:00

Various environment development

2011-03-25T14:50:00.001-07:00

Early development on look and feel of various environments. The UI tests and characters were done by Jillian Ogle http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=22689351&authType=name&authToken=VlDP&trk=tyah and the dragon drawing was done by Alex Ahad http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=13601482&authType=name&authToken=mVAB&goback=

Render was done by me.

Jungle, Forrest, Snow, and Tidelands Concepts

2011-03-25T14:44:00.001-07:00

game intro storyboards

2011-03-25T14:40:00.000-07:00

Storyboards describing the first act of the game. I did the environment, Jillian Ogle designed the characters, and Scott Saunders designed the UI

World Map

2011-01-31T01:39:00.000-08:00

At Playdom I worked on a game tentatively titled Creatures RPG. The art style was to be based upon the idea that the world was a paper pop up book. All the characters and environments would layer on top of each other like the sliding pieces of a pop up book. Unfortunately the game was cancelled, but I truly enjoyed the experience of developing it.

The basic gameplay was centered around your character raising dragons to explore and battle with in multiple fantasy themed floating islands. Here I was concepting different ideas for the town (main menu) layout and look and feel.

gameplay views

2011-01-31T00:25:00.000-08:00

Combat Screen

2011-01-31T00:24:00.000-08:00

UI design by Scott Saundershttp://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=13062167&authType=name&authToken=C3iH&trk=tyah

DRAGONS

2011-01-31T00:23:00.000-08:00

Character Design

2011-01-30T22:08:00.000-08:00

TxT Fighter characters

2010-12-15T02:10:00.000-08:00

These are the character designs I did for the game TxT Fighterhttp://txtfighter.com/index.html. The models came out great and I love how much personality they have due to their fantastic animations. The guys at 5 Elementshttp://www.5elementsentertainment.com/ really put alot of love into the game.

TxT Fighter comes out tommorow in the Itunes store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/5-elements-feng-shui-compass/id399783993?mt=8 so besure check it out.

TXT Fighter

2010-12-14T11:32:00.000-08:00

I did some character designs for an I Pad/Phone game a while back called TxT Fighter which is coming out this Fri. (Dec. 16th). Its a fighting game, but you have to text words to perform the attacks. The characters ended up looking really cool, especially their animations, and the game looks like its going to be a ton of fun. If you want to learn more you can visit the games site at http://txtfighter.com/index.html or you can check out the developers, 5 Elements Entertainment at http://www.5elementsentertainment.com/

They got a whole lot of cool games coming your way so be sure to check out there site for updates!

Also check out this funny Ad for the game http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/TxT+Fighter/video.asp?c=25889

New Job

2010-09-15T18:08:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of post recently. I went on my honeymoon to Korea/Thailand, and was switching jobs so life got a little busy. but I'll be starting my new job next week at Sledgahammer Games working on the new "Call of Duty" game.

Pretty Fly for a Jedi

2010-05-19T09:21:00.001-07:00

I got my new Tablet PC recently so I've been aching to try it out. I have an hour and a half train ride to work to and from so I thought I could use that time to do some art. This is a cool Jedi character to test out my tablet with. It definitely takes some getting used to but I'm really enjoying it!

AT-BT

2010-05-17T21:56:00.000-07:00

I've been watching alot of Star Wars at work recently which was making me want to draw Star Wars stuff. While watching the Hoth battle scene I decided it'd be cool to design the next version of the AT-AT Walker. The AT-AT stands for All Terrain Armored Transport. I thought by adding an extra set of legs and some more cannons I could make it appear like a walking battle station which is where the AT-BT came from (All Terrain Battle Transport) I was trying to include some of the elements from the six legged walker in Episode 2 as well as the T shaped visor worn by the clone troopers in the prequel movies.

It was a fun little project and I think I came up with something that looks like it could comfortably fit in the Star Wars universe.

Jedi Star Fighters

2010-05-16T09:41:00.000-07:00

I did these in school but I still like them. I loved the Jedi starfighters from the Starwars movies but I wanted to explore more with combining the Ep.2 and Ep. 3 versions. Definitely a fun exercise.

RoboCycle

2010-04-04T18:43:00.001-07:00

I think the Tron bikes are freakin cool so I wanted to give Robocop his own Robocycle. I tried giving him a Cruiser version of a light cycle and I also wanted it to be able to flatten a bit like the batpod, so I arched it in the middle a little bit. I also added some guns on the top and changed the steering a bit. Robocops holds onto the handles and turns them forward and back as acceleration and brake, and leans to turn like the Batpod and Lightcycle.
It was fun to make so I hope you like it.

RoboCop Posters

2010-03-25T09:01:00.001-07:00

I was playing around with how I would market my movie version of RoboCop, so I mocked up some movie posters. More like teaser posters. I wanted them to be sleek shiny, and kinda sexy looking.

Robocop 2

2010-03-22T09:16:00.000-07:00

Continuing with my redesign of the Robocop universe I thought it was time to redesign Murphy most dangerous opponent, Robocop 2. While Robocop 2 was extremely impactful to me as a kid I questioned his inception, and so I wanted to update his design as well as give him a more logical back-story.

In my version of Robocop, Dick Jones’s ED-209 was the loser as an urban pacification droid to Robocop’s superior technology, however his design was successful as a military contract and is utilized by the Army as an all terrain tank. Robocop 2 is actually the next version of the ED line called ED-309. I rendered a version of ED-309 with his military amour and graphics. Having been humiliated by the original Robocop’s team success, Dick Jones is obsessed with creating a superior machine, which drives him to recruit Cain as his candidate for Robocop 2. ED-309 becomes Robocop 2 when Cain’s mind is inserted into a 309 unit and is a given the traditional metallic steel amour. I’ll likely do a rear view soon but please let me know what you think.

MegaMan

2010-02-10T14:51:00.000-08:00

I wanted to try my hand at redesigning MegaMan as a live action character. I had designed some suits before for something unrelated, but a friend mentioned that it looked like MegaMan. With a few tweaks I decided to render him up and this is what I got. Let me know what you think. I'm considering designing his robodog as well. Oh and the bottom one just looks cool. Kind of an effects version of what he looks like in the dark :)

Space Colony

2010-02-05T17:16:00.000-08:00

Creepy amusement park

2010-02-05T11:54:00.000-08:00

Hot Cars!

2010-02-05T11:28:00.000-08:00

Saboteur Art

2009-11-18T08:21:00.000-08:00

My first Game Cover!

Saboteur Marketing and Posters

2009-11-16T13:45:00.000-08:00

Parthenon

2009-11-16T13:44:00.001-08:00

The Resistance in action!

These illustrations were to help guide the game play in the Parthenon mission, and give the level a color tone.

Oh and The Saboteur won
Best Art Direction of E3 for the X-Box 360 on IGN!

The Aurora

2009-11-16T13:44:00.000-08:00

The Aurora is Sean's custom made racecar that Sean developes with his mentor Vitori Morini. In our game the Saboteur, the Aurora is the fastest engine ever built and the object of Dopplesiegs envy. At the begining of the game Sean races the Aurora against Dierker which sets up a rivalry between the two characters.
The design process for the Aurora spanned years and many variations. They wanted a car that could look period but clearly be cool and progressive. At the time we were developing it Sean was known in the world as the Dark Horse so that name helped inform my design decisions. I based the body off of the cigar shapes of the racecars of that era, and the head of a horse (stallion). I wanted it to sublimably suggest a Dark Horse, and also I wanted it to visually suggest that the Aurora was the first muscle car (horse power). the blue also signifies the Resistance who's color is blue. Below you can see some of the design variations that lead to the final design.

Pheonix Aurora

2009-11-16T11:08:00.000-08:00

The Pheonix Aurora is the culmination of the Aurora legacy. The Pheonix is a disguised version of the Aurora that is used for the final race of the game. It was a difficult challenge because it had to look like the Aurora to the player, but be unrecognizable to the characters in the game. I ended up completely redesigning the rear while only slightly upgrading the front. I wanted the shorten the nostrils (grill) while broadening the chin of the front to give it a more brutish look from the Aurora. The lights were also placed on the bottom of the car. The rear, which was inspired by more modern cars had to be big enough to fit some special cargo for the finale of the race. I gave the rear of the Pheonix big fenders to give the appearance of shoulders, like on a lioness crouching while stalking a prey. Overall I feel the final design reflects the more powerful feeling that I was trying to convey over the original Aurora.

Saarbrucken

2009-11-16T11:07:00.000-08:00

I started designing Saarbrucken early in the project cause we knew that a big race was going to happen within the tiny german town. By working with the world builders, together we came up with the foundations for a track that would weave in and out of the town. The track changed many times, but these paintings helped capture the spirit of the race that was retained all the way through to the final design.

Silver Claw II

2009-11-16T11:06:00.000-08:00

Dierker, Sean's race rival and object of revenge developed his own race car for the final race of the game. At the Doppelsieg factory, the Nazi's develope cutting edge technology second only to the Aurora. I wanted Dierkers Silver Claw to be a reflection of his character. I made the proportions low like a formula one cause Dierker would be an underhanded fighter. I based many of the design feature off his face. The car has a long pompous nose and a grill that mimicks his clenched teeth. The long lines that lead to the side air intakes mimicks his sneer and I put the exhaust pipes behind his head so that from a front view, when the exhaust shoots out short flames, it looks like Dierker has horns of fire for added devil effects :)

XJ-05

2009-11-16T11:05:00.001-08:00

The Experimental Jet version 5 was a fun design assignment. It was designed for the purpose of fighting as a boss battle, and to show that the Nazi's were developing jet engine technology early on due to their rocket program. I took a traditional flying wing design and sleeked it out with integrated engines and an extended tail design. I also added a bunch of manned gunner balls that you would have to take out before you could easily approach the plane. As well as dealing the guns, periodically the rockets would fire so you could never be in their path. It was a really fun concept that ultimately got cut but it was alot of fun collaborating with Justin Lewers (http://justinlewers.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2002-09-14T01:04:00-07:00&max-results=5)on this one.

JX-07

2009-11-16T10:57:00.000-08:00

The Experimental Jet 7 was developed as part of the Valhall rocket program. Its designed to be a long range bomber with a sort of jet fighter aesthetic. I modeled the body of the plane after a bomb to visually describe the function. I then added the chrome because I thought it might be a specialized and prestigious squadron. Lastly I gave it strait angled wings to give them a stern hammerhead shape. I'm very happy with the final design, and I only wish that planes hadn't been cut so that I could have could cut loose with it in the game :)

Mini Blimps

2009-11-16T10:56:00.000-08:00

The Mini Blimps was a really fun design challenge. The designers wanted a small patrol blimp that could police the city. When you raised the alarm the blimps would fly over and rain down fire from above so that you couldn't just hide on roof tops. I wanted to make them very maneuverable so I added two rotating fans in the front so that they could turn instantly at any angle. I also wanted to hint at the Nazi's use of jet engines by giving the blimp a suedo jet engine. It has a large air intake in the front and a series of fans to create that intense thrust but it's large size would prevent it from moving to fast. In the end the blimps were scaled back to something more traditional but they kept the same tail design and a similar feel.

Dopplesieg

2009-11-15T18:52:00.000-08:00

The Dopplesieg Factory has an important lore in the Saboteur. Its where the Nazi's are secretly developing Rocket technology similar to the real life V2 rockets. The facility is disguised as a car factory but it really serves as a weapons developement facility, and is personally run by the villain of the game, Kurt Dierker. You can see many of my iterations below that range from shuttle launching station to a rinky dink warehouse. Ultimately the final design was influenced heavily by the monolithic modern Mercedes buildings. Its final direction is very utilitarian looking, but with sheik details. Thanks to game designer Michael Marzola who I collaborated with when designing Dopplesieg.

Valhall: Secret Rocket Base

2009-11-15T17:50:00.000-08:00

The Valhall base was my personal project for the length of at least 3 years. As soon as I had heard about it I was salivating to get my hands on it, so I gathered the writer and game designers, and started working out were we could go with Valhall. At the begining the base was to be built directly inside a enormous snowy mountain that eclipsed all other mountains. It had to have a missile silo for firing the Nazi's WMD's and a large number of rooms for the construction of missiles,. It had to house faculty and administrators. It had to have a generator room for power, a jail cell, and a medical facility. A control room to fire the rockets, a gandola to approach the base, and a Nazi castle on the mountain surface. Needless to say it was a humongous undertaking but I was really excited by the challenge and I worked hard at it for along time. As with all projects things were constantly changing and evolving as I was developing the ideas, so it gave me a really great oppertunity to collaborate with many designers and world builders throughout the process. I couldn't have done it with out the help of Lee Souder, Justin Lewershttp://justinlewers.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2002-09-14T01%3A04%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=5 and Joe Myers who were all instrumental in developing our ideas.The project had a great collaborative spirit and the project was better for it. Unfortunately Valhall was cut towards the end of the development of the game which was heartbreaking, but I was happy to have worked with such great people.

I hope you enjoy viewing the work as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Valhall: Control Room

2009-11-15T17:48:00.000-08:00

These concepts were some of the iterations of the control room. we ended up going with something like the top piece here. I really wanted to retain the subterranean lair feel which is why everything is over reinforced and you can see rock bits coming through in places.

Valhall: Missile Silo

2009-11-15T17:47:00.000-08:00

The missile silo and construction rooms were really inspired by the subterranean mountain lairs of Bond villains. I really wanted to give that cold, almost convoluted industrialized feeling. When we were talking about the size of the missile there was a desire to go over the top and scale back if necessary, so we made the rockets almost like Saturn V rockets. This ensured that any facility with rockets would be immense and overwhelming. The bottom drawings were my attempt to describe the function of the construction rooms on paper. I'm not sure if it translates ;)

Valhall: Medical Facility

2009-11-15T17:40:00.000-08:00

Valhalls Med lab was designed for purpose of conducting experiments on human subjects. As such I wanted to give a horror like tone which is why I used eerie green and blood splatter everywhere. I also wanted to suggest that the green vats were some sort of super human serum they were tying to develope. I wanted it to look like the occult part of the Nazi mythology. In the operating room I made it colloseum like so that Nazi officials could watch the experimentations first hand experiments first hand.

Valhall: Various Rooms

2009-11-15T17:39:00.000-08:00

This last part of Valhall is a collection of various rooms within the mountain base. Starting with the jail cell which houses the prisoners to be operatated on. I also wanted to design Dierkers personal office within Valhall to be as upscale as possible because Dierker is a vain character. We were even playing with the idea of giving him his own personal car showroom next to his office. There are hallways and transitions that were needed between rooms and lastly the drawing for the generator room which was to be a big mini boss fight, consisting of swaming Nazi's. Like I said before, Valhall was a labor of love, and I was sad to see it go. However I really enjoyed the experience of working with everyone to see our vision come together.

Nazi Castle

2009-11-15T11:55:00.000-08:00

The Nazi castle was designed around the mission in Le Harve in which you have to board a zepplin. The designers needed a castle that was ancient and ruined to fight your way through. It was a level in itself so it had to be huge with many sections. My art director Chris Hunt suggested romanesque structures so I modeled it after many roman structures and church designs. The final design was tweaked by working with the world builders and it turned out to be a really fun level. One of m favorite missions in the game infact. I won't ruin it for you but it gets really cool when you enter the blimp docked at the top.

Seans childhood house

2009-11-15T10:55:00.000-08:00

These scenes are part of Sean's house that he grew up in in Ireland. His dad was a wealthy mob boss. Eventually Sean and his dad have a falling out that leads to his leaving Ireland forever.

Cemetary

2009-11-15T01:54:00.002-08:00

Bumper cars

2009-11-13T14:39:00.000-08:00

I did this painting as a possible marketing poster. I wanted depict the type of intense car action thats possible during chases using Sean's race car, the Aurora

Will to Fight lighting

2009-11-13T11:12:00.000-08:00

At the very beginning of The Saboteur I was tasked with creating the Will to Fight lighting for the game. They told me they wanted it to range from Black and White Noir to full color, but that there were to be five transitional stages. This was a difficult challenge, but I watched lots of movies and looked at lots of art books to find out which colors most communicated happiness to sadness. Luckily they just left me alone to figure it out, and I spent lots of time doing all these paintings to create the color script for the lighting.
We tried for awhile to do all the stages of lighting but it proved to be too difficult and confusing in the end, especially with time of day changes. The team opted for just the high and low lighting, which I think was the smart choice. I provided the inspiration for the lighting but I would like to thank Erik Jacobson who actually implemented the lighting in game. It took a lot of consulting with Erik, fellow concept artist Imran, http://iswearimnotadriod.blogspot.com/ Brian Norton, and me to get it right, but in the end it turned out really well. I'd also like to thank Nathan Lazar for getting those clouds in there in HWTF and the programmers for getting all the rain and lightning effects that I insisted on. The WTF lighting turned out to be a real highlight of the game and the team was very proud of the results. It even helped us win an award for Best Art Direction of E3 2009 for the X-Box 360 from IGN.

Bridge Explosion

2009-11-12T08:36:00.000-08:00

The Bridge was one of the first things I worked on back in 2005. It was meant to be a wooden bridge for trains to cross over. I had alot of fun depicting the battles you could have underneath.

Miscelaneous Saboteur art

2009-11-10T11:21:00.000-08:00

I wanted to show some illustrations that didn't really fit into projects, or were obsolete because of game design changes, but that I still really liked. The map in particular is a piece that I love and hate. It was a long difficult process of drawing street by street the entire map of the game. Imran Sheikh and I drew the map, and then I had to take on the months of corrections and changes that occured till the end of the game. In the end though it came out well and I think people will appr eciate the handmade quality of the minimap.

Characters

2009-11-10T11:16:00.000-08:00

These concepts were some of the early ideas for Sean's design. All the rough, rugged, and
smug character traits came out of the concept teams early passes at Sean

I also posted the designs for the dancers in our game. The assignment was really just to come up with many costume designs so that they could mix and match elements, but it sure was fun "research"
Oh, I also added some shots of the dancers in race cars for fun

Cyclotron

2009-11-10T02:01:00.000-08:00

The cyclotron is a machine that gathers uranium for the purpose of developing a nuclear weapon. Towards the end of the game you have to destroy the Cyclotron to prevent the Nazi's from making a nuclear rocket. As a sort of mini boss fight I wanted to exaggerate the threat of the Cyclotron by adding tesla coils that shoot electricity to the machine. The whole sequence should be very big and over the top.

Wallpapers

2009-11-09T16:47:00.000-08:00

I made wallpapers out of all my marketing illustrations for the Sab team. They were a big hit so now I would like to offer them to you.
They are 1600x1200
Please enjoy!

The Saboteur Trailers

2009-10-20T16:26:00.000-07:00

RoboCar

2009-10-16T02:25:00.001-07:00

I wanted to give Robo a cool custom car. I modeled it after the Carbon Motors cop car and various other sports cars to give it a muscle super car look. I was going for a sort of next gen version of the Carbon motors cop car. I especially liked how they integrated the police lights into the body so I thought it'd be cool to place a long red light through the body of the car that acts as a long siren light.

I also wanted to try some different color combinations and rear designs.

My Wedding Day

2009-09-22T10:00:00.000-07:00

Dollar Campaign

2009-09-21T16:53:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

I’m excited to announce that my fiancé Kam and I are releasing a Dollar Campaign to raise money towards the cure of the disease HIBM. As some as you may already know my fiancé Kam is afflicted with HIBM, which is a progressive muscle wasting disease which can lead to total disability within 10-15 years. We both work very hard for the non-profit organization ARM (http://www.hibm.org/arm/index.php) which is dedicated to curing this debilitating disease.

With ARM we have created this dollar campaign with the hopes of raising 1 million dollars to enable human therapeutic trials to fight HIBM. We are asking for two things: First, go to WEBSITE (http://www.hibm.org/arm/dollar:home) to donate $1. Second, send this email on to all your friends and family.

In the Internet age, reaching one million people in that amount of time is surely do-able. If you are interested in becoming a bigger influence in this campaign, host your own dollar collecting campaign in your community, church, workplace, among your friends and family and donate what you've collected as one donation. Or you can post this story and image on your own blog and Facebook page. The more people we can reach increases the awareness of HIBM.

HIBM (Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy) is a progressive and debilitating muscle-wasting disorder caused by a gene defect. It touches those between the ages of 20 and 40 and, although progression is slow, it typically leads to total disability within 10-15 years. Studies suggest that HIBM may be easier to cure than many other disorders or diseases, the only limiting factor is funds.

Thank you for your support,

Jason Hazelroth

ED-209

2009-08-22T02:10:00.001-07:00

I did some Robocop redesigns awhile back and I've been meaning to continue with the rest of the robocop universe including ED-209.

I loved the old ED but I always thought it was funny how he'd get tripped up on stairs. I wanted my ED-209 to be animal like and agile. I gave him raptor like hind legs so that he can jump lighting fast and pounce on you. Also, his legs would allow him to take long strides making him fast, and and able to traverse all types of landscape. My Robocop is acrobatic so I wanted him to be able to keep up with Murphy

The ideas are still in the sketchy phase but I think this is a good start. If you guys have any suggestions I'd love to hear them :)

Comic Con 2009

2009-07-29T08:21:00.000-07:00

Kam and I went to Comic Con this year cause both Saboteur and her Mindflex (that Kam designed from the ground up) had displays. Turns out that Mattel had gone all out for Mindflex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teLilQfF5qY&feature=related. It had its own huge booth which was nonstop packed with people waiting to try it out. If your unfamiliar with Mindflex, the game can read your level of concentration through brainwaves which translates into a floating ball, which you navigate through an obstacle course. You can check it out here at http://mindflexgames.com/

Ideation Sketching

2009-07-21T23:00:00.000-07:00

I wanted to post some ideations sketches. Sci Fi is my favorite subject so it was definitely fun to sketch bots.

I think the blue guy would make a great redesign for TRON. When I have some time I want to work on it some more towards a more finished design

Saboteur Trailer

2009-05-29T08:30:00.000-07:00

Saboteur

2009-05-29T08:13:00.000-07:00

Sean clambering inside a Nazi occupied Parthenon

Guitar Hero

2009-05-07T23:35:00.000-07:00

I'm a Guitar Hero fan and I thought it'd be a fun exercise to try doing some character designs in their style. I don't usually do characters so it was definitely fun to try something different.

He's modeled after a death metal rocker.
Let me know what you guys think

Guitar Hero orthos

2009-05-07T23:33:00.000-07:00

Saboteur Art

2009-04-09T07:57:00.000-07:00

This is the full image for the cover art. This was my recommended crop but the crop they used is good too.
Its trying to show the level of grittiness of the game as well as making it an action moment, and showing off the low Will to Fight. Low Will to Fight is our B&W lighting that represents the oppression of the Nazi's. Later when you liberate an area, color is returned to that area of Paris.

Saboteur Art

2009-04-09T07:54:00.000-07:00

This was the original piece that the cover was based off of. I did this nearly 3 years ago at the start of the game, but its proved to be a good piece to describe the tone of the game.

Sabotuer Art

2009-04-02T08:24:00.000-07:00

I did this one way back at the begining of the game to illustrate the tone of the occupation.

Resistance

2009-03-19T08:33:00.000-07:00

Resistance fan art!

Resistance Speeder

2009-03-19T08:32:00.000-07:00

I like Darren Quach's work alot so I was trying to render like he does

Speeder orthos

2009-03-19T08:29:00.000-07:00

as A fan of Resistance I wanted to design some vehicles I'd like to see in the game. I kinda wanted something along the lines of Halo's "Ghost" speeder

Christmas Express

2009-02-11T10:07:00.001-08:00

Subzero's Ice Castle

2009-02-11T10:01:00.000-08:00

Subzero's ice castle

Snowmobile

2009-02-11T09:45:00.000-08:00

I did this back when I was at Polaris Industries (snowmobile company) for fun. It got alot of attention so I must have done something right

I'm Engaged!

2008-12-09T00:25:00.000-08:00

So it happened. I got engaged to my best friend Kam! In Osaka japan (I'm so classy)

Shes my best friend and I feel so lucky :)

Ring Design

2008-12-08T00:55:00.000-08:00

My Kam is an industrial designer so I wanted to do something special for her engagement ring. I thought she would appreciate it if I designed it myself, but it was tough though cause she knows more about design than I do. I put alot of thought into and she ended up loving it so I guess I did good :)

Box Design

2008-12-08T00:38:00.000-08:00

I wanted to make a cool box to fit with the ring I made. I had no idea how to make a box so asked my friend Bryan Norton who used to work in a model shop for movies. It was fun but it was really hard. Plus it was hard to try to hide what I was doing from my girlfriend. She really liked it though so it was definitely worth it.

Bryan is looking for work right now as a concept artist. We worked together at Pandemic and he is a great guy and an awesome artist. Check out his website at http://norton.carbonmade.com/ and his blog at http://n0rt0n.blogspot.com/

Robocop helmet design

2008-10-12T11:12:00.000-07:00

I wanted to show how Robocops helmet comes apart in stages. He requires special tools to disassemble his helmet making him heavily reliant on OCP for maintanace and repair.
Hope you like.

Robocop redesign

2008-10-10T11:46:00.001-07:00

I'm a big fan of robocop and I've wanted to redesign him for awhile now. trying to make him a bit more agile and athletic.

This is me trying to do a Phil Saunder render ;)

Robocop rear view

2008-10-10T11:45:00.000-07:00

Action

2008-08-25T15:20:00.001-07:00

thumbs

2008-06-26T10:01:00.000-07:00

Some slight leg and body variations

image board

2008-06-26T09:01:00.000-07:00

Some of the other designs I used as influence for robocop. wanted to incorporate a more modern language for robocops near futurism design. I wanted robocop to feel more fluid and organic like he could be a runner or a martial artist, so I incorporated some nano tech with steel so he looked flexible and protected. I'm also playing with the idea of giving him a techy sword of some sort ;)

Panda Zord

2008-06-21T15:44:00.000-07:00

I did some panda zords for my friend James. He wanted them sorta Gundam like.

Hubless Sportsbike

2008-06-21T09:38:00.000-07:00

my attempt at a hubless sports bike :)