Rory Doyle

Visit the Portfolio!

2011-01-18T15:42:00.000-08:00

I've been pretty busy with work so the blog hasn't been getting updated as much as I would like. Please click here to see my online portfolio with the latest work and contact info!!
www.cargocollective.com/rorydoyle/

Cheers,
Rory

ENDEAVOR x DOYLE x COORS LIGHT

2010-01-28T22:44:00.000-08:00

Endeavor Snowboards produced a small run of limited edition boards for Coors Light and I was lucky enough to do the graphics. The topsheet is obviously a can and the base is the Endeavor logo made up of spilled brew. After producing the guerilla series for Endeavor's 10/11 line in 3D I decided that to make a can look as photo-real as possible then i should also do it in 3D. I'm hyped on my signature being hit in gold foil. I don't know about you, but everytime I look at the board I suddenly want to experience the golden taste of an ice cold silver bullet...

MEGADESTROYER

2010-01-28T22:19:00.000-08:00

I recently finished a couple of graphics for the Heathens over at MEGADESTROYER. A brand i've liked before it was even a brand. The MxFxD graphic was derived from an old Rush album. The hair text graphic was derived from Paul Higgins and myself drinking tall cans of ale in front of my computer looking at pictures of Motorcycles, Hair, skulls and a naked midget lady pointing an uzi. To my surprise as you'll see in the sneak peak picture from KNOW?SHOW they also made a jacket out of the hair graphic!

It was a pleasure working with them and hopefully you'll see more of my art in the Mega D line up in the future. Stop by their site and check out some more of the goods!
www.megadestroyer.com/

ENDEAVOR 2010/11 LINE!

2010-01-28T20:52:00.000-08:00

This was a large project. Five unique top sheets with two colorways on top of that and a pretty detailed/tech base graphic that was painfully made solely in vector. For those of you who don't know, I work full time as a 3D production artist by day and a designer/artist by night so in other words, this one took a while.
Usually I keep my 3D and 2D work pretty separate but when Endeavor approached me with the idea of futuristic graffiti for their guerilla series, I thought it would be a great opportunity to combine the styles that surprisingly enough, over the years I hadn't ever really tried mixing before.
I recently made a series of silk screened clocks with cities from all over the world on them and it gave me the idea to make each board from somewhere across the globe. With that in mind along with the initial theme of the Guerilla series, I thought it would be cool to model each board after a famous landmark that we all know as untouchable, being devoured by graffiti in a guerilla manor. I could go into some more symbolic jargon but that is basically the story behind it!

Anyway, with much needed iteration and feedback from the guys at ENDVR, this is the end result. To briefly break it down, included is the Coliseum, London Bridge, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Taj Mahal. There is no photography involved in the graphic. All the topsheet content was modeled and rendered in 3D with some post done in photoshop. The base graphic was made in illustator. A tee was also made for the series. I wrote out "New York State Of Mind" with a bit of flavor and then it was comp'd over the statue of liberty.
Hope you like!

Art and Eggnog!

2009-11-11T10:35:00.000-08:00

I will be a featured artist in the upcoming art show SPECTATION. click the following link for more details! www.theartsleague.com/

8 Mile intro

2009-11-09T09:37:00.000-08:00

The guys over at www.8milelife.com/ recently premiered their latest movie and wanted a triumphant animated intro based on the universal studios one we all know. I haven't done any motion graphics in a while so it was fun getting back into it. All in all the intro went over well and it was a great night. Thanks again to Johnny and Mikey for the bottomless bullets! In case anyone is wondering, it was modeled, textured and animated in 3D Studio Max with a few touches in After Effects.

Interviewed by snowboard-review.com

2009-11-09T09:24:00.000-08:00

I was recently interviewed by www.snowboard-review.com/ after the release of the 2009/2010 Endeavor Roots series and Kale Stephens pro model that i designed. If you would like to have a read, please click here:
www.snowboard-review.com/blog/article/artist_profile_-_rory_doyle/

Artist Profile in Snowboard Canada Magazine

2009-08-24T17:15:00.000-07:00

I was lucky enough to have a 2 page artist feature in Snowboard Canada's 2010 buyers guide. Here is a link to a scan that guys at Endeavor did but be sure to grab a hardcopy on stands any day now.
www.endeavorsnowboards.com/blog/?p=1785/

A few decks

2009-06-23T22:24:00.000-07:00

I've posted a couple of these before but i had a nice comp of some of them together so i thought i would throw it up. Also because it has a manual board in there. That was the first skateboard i ever designed back in the day. O.G

Kale graphic in Updown Magazine

2009-06-23T13:46:00.000-07:00

It seems like Kale's Pro Model is gererating a lot of hype which is great for me too.

Check the link:
www.updownmagazine.com/blog/?p=5247/

Endeavor x Airhole Collab Review. Thumbs up!

2009-06-23T10:22:00.000-07:00

I just finished a board graphic for an Endeavor x Airhole collab. It's a Kale Stephens pro model done in a Struzan collage fashion that contains several elements that represent Kale. A couple minor touch-ups are in order but it's done for the most part. The guys at snowboard review got a hold of the graphic a have given it an solid early review. Read more here:
www.snowboard-review.com/blog/article/kale_stephens_facilitates_endeavor_and_airhole_collaboration/

New Airhole out

2009-05-31T15:48:00.000-07:00

Here is one of the designs I helped the guys at Airhole out with. Stay posted for more designs in the near future. To see more Airholes and other gear check out:
www.airhole.ca

State of the Art Photos

2009-04-21T12:16:00.000-07:00

Last week end was the opening of State of the Art so here are some pics courtesy of my mum and Neil Singh from NLG. I was pretty happy on the opening night as my clocks set sold within a couple hours. It was one of those things where you start thinking maybe you're the only one that likes the idea behind it but i received lots of great feedback so far. I'm definately open to making more custom silk screen clocks if anyone is interested! thanks again to Max from Endeavor for hooking me up with a wall in the show!

Continued SOTA pics

2009-04-21T12:08:00.000-07:00

New Project For State of the Art

2009-04-13T11:52:00.001-07:00

I've been working on a new project for "State of The Art" which is an upcoming art show in Whistler during the Telus Ski and Snowboard Festival. Here are some shots of my work in progress. I'm not going to fully disclose what they are until i have completed them. For more info on State of the Art, click here:

www.wssf.com/art/

Continued Pics from SOTA Project

2009-04-13T11:45:00.000-07:00

Endeavor Roots series review

2009-04-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

I gotta love the UK. It has things like my family, Liverpool FC, nice lager, Geoff Rowley and great snowboard graphic reviewers. Snowboard-Review.com just released a review based on the graphics of the Roots series I did this year and I'm pretty happy as it was a really good one. If it's this review or any other, I pretty much have to drop Mucha's name because my seasons were inspired by his seasons he created at the end of the 18th century. I seem to be getting good feedback from people who are familar with his work so hopefully he wouldn't roll over in his grave if he saw them. Check out the review here:
www.snowboard-review.com/blog/article/endeavor_back_in_touch_with_their_roots/

Keep scrolling on my blog for renders and high rez images of the series.

Max's Grill

2009-03-12T08:32:00.001-07:00

This is a blank i painted with jiffy markers and bic pens for my friend Max's milestone 30th birthday.

Ad in SBC buyers guide

2009-01-24T15:03:00.001-08:00

This Endeavor ad ran in SBC's 2009 buyers guide featuring my 08/09 roots graphic. (second board in from the left. photo courtesy of endeavor snowboards

Product shot in SBC

2009-01-24T14:53:00.000-08:00

Last months SBC featured Donn Hore riding the Endeavor 08/09 Roots board i designed. That's a proper method Donn.

Stormchasers logo

2009-01-24T14:50:00.000-08:00

Endeavor Snowboards asked me to revamp the logo for their stormchaser campaign. This is one of the pieces it was used on. photo courtesy of endeavor snowboards.

Endeavor 09/10 Roots Series

2009-01-23T01:19:00.000-08:00

This is the second year i've done the roots series for Endeavor. I worked on them on and off for the last little while. I haven't seen nouveau make its way into board graphics before so i thought it would make for a nice change. Inspired by Mucha's seasons.

Socal Skatepark tour

2009-01-21T09:27:00.000-08:00

Every year John Raimondo and friends drive down to Socal to tour all the parks. Sounds like an amazing time. So amazing this year he wanted get shirts made as a surprise for the posse. The 4 images inside the crest are key elements of the trip and he wanted the beaver up to top to represent Canada.

Identity work

2008-11-17T19:04:00.000-08:00

Some old and new identity work. Not all were used.

burner

2008-10-04T21:41:00.000-07:00

I stumbled onto a rough sketch of this in the archives. I can't remember the reason behind "visionary" but i liked the design so i decided to clean it up.

WT Board graphic.

2008-09-05T09:57:00.000-07:00

Our posse has been writing WT on our boards for some time now so it was only right that i designed us a graphic for a limited run. You can't really see but all of our names are in the headlines in the paper.

Endeavor board mocks

2008-06-26T23:02:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple mock ups for Endeavor's color series. The city from above concept is early placeholder art and would have a lot more detail in the final. It never ran which is why the detail wasn't added. The idea was to have the middle of the board saturated with both color and detail and the further out it went the less that became until it was just blueprint line art on the nose and tail. The other pitch I was just playing around with different 3D treatments and hits of color on cleaner compositions.

3D snowboard renders

2008-06-26T22:32:00.001-07:00

In lieu of shooting photos of the boards for their Storm Chaser catalogue, Endeavor had me model and light the boards in 3D giving us full range for rotating them and rendering them out in numerous angles. The board graphics were not done by me.

Manual Skateboards Tee's

2008-06-26T22:08:00.000-07:00

Here are some shirt screens i've made for Manual over the years. Skate or DIE is my favorite.

A.J Bay memorial piece

2008-06-26T21:58:00.000-07:00

I made this to go in a silent auction at one of A.J's fundraisers. As you can see, Canada, hockey and playing the axe were 3 of Bay's favorite things.

Hand Painted Skateboards

2008-06-26T21:30:00.001-07:00

I've always drawn on my skateboards growing up, but have never attempted to properly paint blanks before. The first one I did was for Next Level Games. All the artists painted skateboards and then we had an online auction where I believe all the proceeds went towards cancer research. The catch was it had to pertain to work, so i rocked a gameboy with wings and called it the fly times because that was the time when shit was fly. The other one is a wasted talent pro model i painted as a 30th birthday present for my good friend Greg. Please don't skate that wildman.

There were many nice boards painted at work, but I have to throw up the two that my man Dedos dropped. Be sure to stop by his blog and check out the gang of straight goods! www.nelsondedosgarcia.blogspot.com

08/09 Endeavor goods

2008-06-26T20:58:00.000-07:00

Here are the board and clothing designs i did for Endeavor's 08/09 campaign.

Promo Posters

2008-06-25T10:47:00.000-07:00

Some print for work functions at NLG

DVD cover and intro movie

2008-06-25T09:05:00.001-07:00

This was for a 48hr horror film contest held here in Vancouver. The Black Tree Pictures animated logo was a sponsor.

Some Graf complilations

2008-06-24T23:03:00.001-07:00

Being a writer at heart, i'll start with these as graf was what got me into this in the first place. Combo pieces with friend Derek Stenning. I made the letters and he added the characters and color.

Introductory post

2008-06-19T12:21:00.001-07:00

Hello and welcome to my blog of some old and some current work. Thanks for stopping by and stay posted for an official site.

Rory