Pictures are worth a thousand words, gah, did i just type that? Well it’s true, especially for picture-smiths such as ourselves. These candids are from various people attending and teaching over the course of the 4 day workshop. Thank you everyone that took pictures and put them on Facebook, if you have more, or some cool-ones-you-never-posted, please feel free to post them up on the wall of our Massive Black Facebook page. They just might end up in MB vol.2…

P.S. Big thanks to Nadia Mogilev, Israel Alvarez Carrion, J.S Rossbach, Alexander Gorbatyuk, and Stacy LeFevre for taking lots of photos and putting them on the facebook. I know there’s more of you out there, so sorry for not listing you by name, but don’t worry! your day in the sunshine will come…

Stacy LeFevre’s awesome review of awesome is here!

Israel Alvarez Carrion has some great blog entries about the event on his.. blog.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – Sep 29, 2011) – At Unite, Massive Black, extraordinary art studio and game developer, announced that they will bring their awesome game art to the Unity Asset Store, a one-stop-shop for all of the Unity assets — from 3D models and textures to advanced AI scripting — that game developers need to make their games.
The addition bolsters the already amazing selection of content for sale on the Asset Store with the inclusion of Massive Black’s top tier art on their newly opened seller’s page in the Unity Asset Store. In addition, Massive Black is also happy to announce they are currently developing an interactive art demo to showcase many of the art pieces that will eventually be included on the Asset Store and illustrate the amazing creative potential they have found while working in Unity.
“Massive Black couldn’t be more excited about including our art on the Unity Asset Store,” said Massive Black CEO and Co-Founder Chris Hatala. “Our goal has always been to generate premier quality products, and we’re anxious to offer outside parties access to them. We’ve continually striven to share with the community at events like our Art Workshops and see the Unity Asset Store as a great venue to further that ideal by helping others bring their own projects to fruition. Our plan is to contribute assets that we use ourselves, so we really hope Unity users find them as useful as we do.”
Massive Black, known for its detailed modeling, fluid animation and high quality concept art for games, is the latest and greatest addition to the list of impressive developers currently selling art and tools to the Unity Asset Store. New assets will include everything from a character model to environment assets and loads of creatures. Designers can now visit their page to download the first Massive Black items up for sale and expect to see much more in the future.
“Massive Black’s contribution to the Unity Asset Store brings top-notch artwork to Unity developers worldwide,” said Caitlyn Meeks, the Unity Asset Store Manager at Unity Technologies. “Giving developers the ability to vault over the budgetary and production barriers for their games, while creating graphically compelling experiences with superior artwork, is just one facet of our commitment to democratizing game development. With Massive Black’s participation, Unity developers will have access to professionally crafted, drop-dead gorgeous artwork from one of the best studios in the industry. We couldn’t be happier.”
The Asset Store, built directly into the Unity game authoring platform, allows access to thousands of assets at the click of a button. Developers can purchase any of these additions, whether they are art, sound, code or Unity add-ons, both free and commercial, and then use the assets in any number of projects. The system allows for new and experienced developers alike to pad their asset collection while at the same time providing an awesome forum for artists and developers to sell high-quality art assets and code.
For more information about the Unity Asset Store, visit: http://unity3d.com/unity/editor/asset-store. To find Massive Black’s store page, open the Asset Store while inside the Unity authoring tools and search for Massive Black.

All of the concept art and illustration for this game was generated inside our studio with our hands and wacoms. We’re really happy to have worked on this great title with our good friends Hasbro and hope you enjoy it once the game comes out in November.

There’s a great write-up on Kotaku about it here

AND, a pdf with more information on the game itself can be found here.

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/exonaut/index.html
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/exonaut/about.html


Kemp Remillard



Sam Brown

We’ve put together some promotional material to get the word out on our event. So, if you want to be an ultra-cool underground guerilla advertiser for us please go ahead and print these bad boys out for yourself. The high-res files are on our Flickr account, just click the links for the jump!.

Tell your friends!! This workshop’s going to be sweet!

Only $375 if you act now!!
$350 for 10 or more passes!!
http://store.massiveblack.com/workshop-sf-2011-tickets

We’re very happy to add David Kassan and Shelly Wan to our list of presenters! Mr. Kassan is a successful oil painter based in Brooklyn and represented by the Gallery Henoch in New York City, He is also an avid instructor teaching workshops “Pretty much all over the place from Austraila to Santa fe, as well as in my own neighborhood here in NYC. It’s such a cool experience to get out of the studio to share and develop painting concepts with students from all over the world.”

Shelly Wan is a Visual Development artist at Pixar Animation Studios. She is also a fine artist with representation by Eidolon Fine Arts and the Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra CA. Shelly’s experience includes working as a concept artist for Rockstar Games, Disney and the movie Astroy Boy (2009). Come see her demonstrate her process and ideas on the subject with us in November!

davidkassan.com

eidolonfinearts.com/shelly_wan

We’re also happy to show our limited edition poster design! As you can see, more than one of us helped out to make this sweet montage. We like to think it’s got a little bit of everything for everyone, just like our workshops ;). Make sure you get one of these nicely done prints with the Awesome Package™ which includes things like shirts and super coool early admittance. This thing will be good we promise!

Well here it is, 2011, the future is now and it’s been almost 5 years since we’ve last had a workshop in our fine city by the bay.
To take charge of the future we’ve decided to bring it on home for what’s prooobably going to be our best event ever (like srsly) .

And finally for your viewing pleasure, some images from one of our super secret projects, Earl le Bird by Nox


Click here for the workshop site – massiveblackworkshop.com


Click here to purchase tickets – store.massiveblack.com/mb-events

 
Company Contact Information

Massive Black Inc
3 Meacham PL
San Francisco, CA 94109
Phone : 415 344 0069

Massive Black Shanghai
1688 Sichuan North Road
Hongkou, Shanghai, China
(Studios)

Business Contact
Massive Black Shanghai
4419 Ramsey Ave
Austin, TX 78756
Phone: 714 470 5208