richiedemus

monkey-du

2012-02-04T07:55:00.002-05:00

Acting in a play call "Star Wars" for drama class.

sapphire lantern

2012-02-04T07:52:00.001-05:00

Sapphire and his archenemy Menotera.

matte painting

2012-01-02T10:31:00.004-05:00

A composite of World War III on the pacific side of the United States...

character concept

2012-01-02T10:28:00.002-05:00

My version of a modern battle the east.........

comic book

2012-01-02T10:23:00.006-05:00

January 2012 #13

superheroes

2011-12-08T09:00:00.002-05:00

The first one is Arcus & Eagle Owl "great archers"

The second one is Bloods of Bull "all the animals with bull in their name and posses great strength and agility also dominate in their own environment.

Father Christmas-Santa Claus

2011-12-08T08:56:00.003-05:00

My version of the Australian Santa Claus.

The dark side.....the protector of Christmas.

monkey-du comic strip collection 2011

2011-12-08T08:55:00.003-05:00

All my comic strips for 2011.

Thank you all for visiting.

comic book

2011-12-08T08:49:00.003-05:00

December 2011 #12

Bolt

2011-11-12T09:49:00.002-05:00

A Jamaican superhero "fastest man and can use the lightening to travel threw the universe".

lytenin bolt

2011-11-06T07:05:00.004-05:00

a character made for the Jamaican fastest runner in the world,
joined the same league with flash.

cartoon style

2011-11-06T06:51:00.003-05:00

I made a teenager version of Ed, Edd, Eddy for my son who loves this cartoon.

I made this cartoon to follow the lawyer Matlock series.

monkey-du comic

2011-11-06T06:46:00.004-05:00

November #11 2011

Car ads

2011-10-08T08:29:00.005-04:00

I did a car commercial for my Geo Tracker (Chevy),

and this is my ad layout. You can check out the video on youtube

(vfx car commercial).

Matte Painting

2011-10-01T17:37:00.003-04:00

Just creating some matte painting images of my son with the zoo animals,

also developing some interesting background world and city.

comic book

2011-10-01T17:33:00.002-04:00

October #10 2011

Sapphire Lantern

2011-09-02T21:28:00.004-04:00

For all Virgos a concept cousin for Green Lantern.

ninja cowboy

2011-09-02T21:16:00.003-04:00

A concept version when wild wild west meets the ninjas of Japan.

Matte Painting

2011-09-02T21:10:00.003-04:00

Just messing around with some matte painting in photoshop.

comic

2011-09-02T20:54:00.005-04:00

Monkey-Du

September #9 2011

comic-monkey-du

2011-08-03T22:17:00.003-04:00

August #8 2011

cat and the fiddle nursery rhyme

2011-07-06T17:31:00.001-04:00

monkey-du comic strip

2011-07-04T13:23:00.002-04:00

July #7 2011

vfx soldiers memorial

2011-06-11T10:47:00.002-04:00

vfx artist matte painting

2011-06-11T10:29:00.006-04:00

VFX Artist Demo

2011-06-09T18:32:00.006-04:00

monkey-du comic strip

2011-06-06T10:20:00.001-04:00

June #6 2011

memorial day tribute

2011-06-06T10:18:00.003-04:00

To all my families and friends who have and still serving.....Thank you!!!!

monkey-du comic strip

2011-06-04T21:39:00.003-04:00

June #6 2011

monkey-du comic strip

2011-05-04T08:52:00.003-04:00

May #5 2011

monkey-du comic strip

2011-05-01T21:29:00.005-04:00

May #5 2011

monkey-du comic strip

2011-04-01T19:01:00.004-04:00

April #4 2011

monkey-du comic strip

2011-03-01T20:18:00.005-05:00

March #3 2011

monkey-du comic strip

2011-02-03T09:28:00.004-05:00

Feburary #2 2011

monkey-du comic strip

2011-01-01T13:46:00.007-05:00

January #1 2011

Santa Claus & Concepts

2010-12-25T09:40:00.007-05:00

female samurai concept

2010-12-18T16:38:00.003-05:00

Tomoe:

A female samurai I created because you don't see too many female version.

Multiple Me:

I did a composite where there is two version of myself entering a car and then the car explode in the end. You can check the short video on my web site "richiedemus.com"

Character Dr Bejide Botan & Ms Lichen Hyde New Design

2010-12-11T18:39:00.006-05:00

Dr. Bejide Botan & Ms. Lichen Hyde:
In this movie Dr. Bejide Botan is a scientist who study plants and algae. Sometimes she will change into Ms. Lichen Hyde just like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Just the like the hulk she will change and fight evil. She can also control all plants/algae, and grows up to about 7 feet in height. When she is Ms Lichen Hyde she is very flexible like Mr. Fantastic.

character Sun Glider concept

2010-11-30T20:35:00.003-05:00

An old design cover.......

A new design cover concept..............

Sun Glider:

A movie I'm working on, it's about a young vampire who can walk at day and at night.

His arm glows to give him extra strength and speed.

He's a part of a new clan who defies the ancient ones.

character girl concept

2010-11-28T11:56:00.003-05:00

Dark Side

M:::

She can multiply into 5 more characters which their power is their own name.
Or she can combine all powers into one (herself).

Her parents are Jamaican and Phillipine.

character moses concept

2010-11-26T18:38:00.003-05:00

Mosiss

Has the power of lighten, part molecules, the ability to gravitate, and martial arts.

In this series I like to use the heros from ancient times to show where most of my heros idea come from. In the words of Bob Marley "there's a Natural Mystic flowing thru the air".

Mystic Force "Godly Sound" Jah Rasta-for-i.

character concept design

2010-11-15T20:00:00.003-05:00

Ezekiel:

A prophet from the bible who control the spirits of the dead bones.

character concepts 11x17 layout

2010-11-10T17:57:00.006-05:00

Black Widow:

A black Chinese Jamaican Samurai who travel around the world on missionary jobs.

She survive a bite from a black widow and develop a poisonous blood to kill anyone who come in contact with or a kiss.

POINTILLISM TECHNOLOGY

2010-10-24T10:05:00.004-04:00

JUST MESSING AROUND WITH POINTILLISM ART WORK IN MY DOWN TIME.

AN INNOVATION IDEA FOR THE MILLITARY FORCES.

INTRODUCING ONE OF MY COMIC STRIP "MONKEY DU".

Print Portfolio 2010

2010-09-28T10:33:00.006-04:00

In my print porfolio class we show idea on a 11x17 layouts for new cartoon and movies with special effects that I'm most interested in.

The last two art pieces you can check out on my website at richiedemus.com for the demo reels.

I have been growing over the last few months honing my skills as a special effect artists and prepareing myself for the world to take notice of me. I will continue to show off my drawings and new ideas as I go, hoping someone will take interest in me, and I can prove to the world I'm ready.

concept sketches

2010-08-29T22:27:00.003-04:00

Future characters of movies to come. Sketches of ideas from beyond the universe that walks among us. From our thoughts into reality. Special Effects is what I love and one day it will come thru.

performance and storyboarding character designs

2010-07-31T18:03:00.006-04:00

In my Performance And Storyboarding class I was to create and come up with short stories.

1. In the first two pictures, this story was about some pigeons who live in New York City and wanted to grow up and be like the Prospect Park Gangster Owls.

2. In the third picture, this story was about a bunch of pirate PARROTS from Florida who were taken revenge on all pirates and in the end they teamed up with the dragon Hummingbirds from the caribbean in an epic battle in the caribbean seas.
3. In the fourth picture, this story was a prince who got married, brag to his friends about his sex life, and in the end he found out his wife is a sister of duodecaplets.

4. In the fifth picture, this story was about a girl who the town call red riden hood because of her maid uniform she wore everyday to work. She had a dream of going to New York and meet her prince, and one day on her train ride she met a guy name Kyupid became friends and lover. Later they both found out he was a prince to inherit the family inheritance.

future of an innovator

2010-06-11T19:57:00.008-04:00

I am the creator.....

the anima-thor.....

the innovator of Richard Symes's world.

I dream and visualize my concepts, and then bring them to life from my head to my fingers to my drawing pads.

My vision is to become a special effects specialise in movies.

warrior and spiritual concepts

2010-05-08T15:23:00.004-04:00

In these concepts they are more of mystical beings.

The first one is a time traveler who jump from parallel dimensions, and whatever they conquer they keep as a souvenir.
Second of the unknown.

Third brothers of land and water.

Fourth of the Jews from the past.

Last the beast of the chemcial powers.

innovator concepts

2010-04-17T18:34:00.005-04:00

To create a look that's inspiring to others. To simply put it....just something from the old school of Marvel and DC comic books of which shape and created my imagination.

demo reel production log

2010-04-13T21:10:00.038-04:00

As I start my journey to create my first commercial, it will include my art work and using the new 2010 iPad for my background layout.

week 1. To collect all my references and to create a storyboard layout.

week 2. I have finish the logo animation and will start the introduction.

week 3. I have finish my animatic and will now move on to my introduction.

week 4. This week I'm having problem with my after effects importing my sounds, but the good

thing is I have finish the first round of my project, and I have 2 more rounds to go to

complete my commercial project.

week 5. I got my sound to work in after effects, also made some adjustments to my first round, and now ready to move forward to the second round.

week 6. I'm still working on the second round, apparently the computers at school are very slow, so it's taken me awhile. Also still collecting sound effects for different parts of the animation.

week 7. The computers are working faster now, and I have finish the second round, and now moving on to the third, and final round of my iPad commercial.

week 8. Finish all my animation, and next week I will go thru, and do some editing to reduce my time from 5 mins. to under 3 mins..

week 9. Doing some more editing, and adding my sound effects.

week 10. Final editing, sound effects, and make movie comp.

week 11. Turn in final movie comp, DVD cover, DVD case cover, and 11x17 poster.

concept art

2010-04-02T10:08:00.003-04:00

some ideas created for new superheros and movie concepts

character concept

2010-03-29T20:55:00.003-04:00

I had fun drawing these on the computer for my character concept.

character design

2010-03-29T20:08:00.004-04:00

In my free time I like to draw my ideas to show other people my visions.

The Cat and the Fiddle (Storyboards)

2010-03-09T19:46:00.004-05:00

My interpretation of the story!

Cat and the fiddle (model sheet)

2010-03-04T19:49:00.003-05:00

In the nursery rhymes the cat and fiddle:

This is my version of the cat character.

Who was born and lived in England.

Cow (model sheet)

2010-03-04T19:33:00.004-05:00

In the nursery rhymes the cat and the fiddle:

this is my version of the cow character.

Who was born and lived in Egypt.

The Cat and the Fiddle (nursery rhymes)

2010-02-24T20:30:00.001-05:00

Hey, diddle, diddle!

The (English) cat and the fiddle,

The (Egyptian) cow jumped over the moon;

The little (English) dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the (Irish minister) dish ran away the (Chinese) spoon.

hallway of a mad scientist laboratory

2010-02-12T10:35:00.001-05:00

A deserted scene after an experiment gone wrong.

Brent (model sheet)

2010-01-28T19:08:00.001-05:00

A British sheriff living in a small town out west California USA (1815), and he maintain a pleasant demeanor, but when people aren't around, he enjoys being cruel to animals.

Fern (model sheet)

2010-01-23T12:42:00.001-05:00

A 3 year old female gorilla from India(1920), and from a upper class family.