Painting the DragonForce Album Cover with Andrew Jones

**MassiveDVD** · December 10th, 2008, 06:59 PM

Andrew Jones takes us on an all night educational journey through the creation of the cover art for the Dragon Force album, Ultra Beat Down. Once again Andrew innovates the use of digital tools inside a traditional foundation, freely combining Photoshop, Painter, and ZBrush to create stunningly powerful and sexy rock art. Original score by DJunya.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lybxxbpjjnw
Purchase: http://store.payloadz.com/str-asp-i....nd-detail.html

**Arshes Nei** · December 10th, 2008, 07:02 PM

I *just* saw this because I hit payloadz front page for Art!

**Earendil** · December 10th, 2008, 07:03 PM

Woohoo!

*gobble*

**OldJake666** · December 10th, 2008, 07:20 PM

I HATTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Dragonforce but I love your art so I'll probably get this. The Soulfly cover is much better though, IMO.

**Theking78** · December 11th, 2008, 01:35 AM

Just downloading it!!!!! Can't see the time to see it on my pc!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Andrew!
Thank you Massive Black!

**Evil_Sloth** · December 11th, 2008, 03:10 AM

Swa heeeeeeeeat!

**kab** · December 11th, 2008, 01:24 PM

Dragonforce are funny, like a joke, Herman Li parodies on youtube make me laugh, alot. =p

Andrew, fantastic work, I might just have to download this thing when I can afford it

**MeTaL-Mike** · December 11th, 2008, 03:21 PM

Cool! can wait to download this. Dragonforce really sucks but it's nice to see Andrew work

**PieterV** · December 13th, 2008, 02:44 PM

I love listening to Dragonforce, because they're soo bad they're good.
And I love watching Andrews work because it's soo good that it's bad-ass.

**kraal** · December 15th, 2008, 03:57 PM

trailers should really come before release .... just saying

**ManaBurn** · December 15th, 2008, 05:10 PM

wtf evva, it's Android, who cares who he's illustrating for. I have an itchiness in my skin waiting for new stuff from him. I will be downloading this cutting it into lines and ingesting it immediately!!!

OMG!!! It's only fifteen dollars!!! Thank you MB Thank you AJ

Having actually watched it at this point it's with out a doubt an awesome download. There's a lot of information to be gleaned from it on so many levels. It's not a this is how I a b c type tutorial, which is why consistently Android remains one of my favorite artists to learn from. There's so much to take from this and apply to really any type of situation your interested in. It's a real plus that that Roadrunner and Dragonforce let you share the video with us aswell.

On a production level, there was a lot of complaining about the sound levels etc back in the day with these. It deserves mentioning that for some time now the production has been flawless with all the downloads.

Thanks again guys, I was pretty down about the idea that we might be losing such an awesome resource because of torrenting and was really pumped to see that all hope was not lost.

**OldJake666** · December 16th, 2008, 12:03 AM

If not for Opeth and Porcupine Tree, I would hate Roadrunner...

**K-bot** · December 20th, 2008, 05:39 PM

Mr. Jones, I am so impressed with your art.

I feel like you have come full circle with the abstraction technique, and I really respect the way you let your art take you places, instead of "trying" to achieve a particular outcome.

I really think you embody what it means to be original and it is a huge inspiration to me, please keep sharing your self with us.

MASSIVEDVD

The audio mixing quality, and the way you guys filmed the voice overs etc... are a step above previous downloads, keep it up!

Two things I did notice is that it says actual time 1 hour and Android said it was 8-9 hours. No big deal, just thought I point it out in case you wanted to fix it. Also, the resolution seems really small, like 600px or so? This just seems too small, even watching on my laptop it is hard to see details.

**Theking78** · December 23rd, 2008, 02:33 AM

I finished watching it yesterday and as always it's a great experience to see the master Andrew Jones creating a masterwork.
I found it very inspirational.
The only thing that disappointed me is the resolution of the video who's very very low, as K-Bot already noticed.... This makes difficult to see details and I hope in the future no other video will be released in this small resolution.
Also the image of the cover carried with the video is very small and a big one image or .psd files would have been much appreciated.

Apart from that it remain a valuable download!

**Takkik** · December 27th, 2008, 06:24 AM

It's always a pleasure / interesting / inspiring to watch Andrew vids and this time the audio is good! But like others already noticed, why the size is so small compared to others Massives releases? And it's lacking some high def img of the process like in previous ones.

Can we hope to see a Fine art vol. 2 soon?

**MassiveDVD** · December 30th, 2008, 06:04 PM

We're trying to get a higher-res version out, which will be freely available to anyone who's already purchased it, of course. I haven't personally seen the resolution of the source footage so I can't make any guarantees, but I think it should be possible. Bear with us... it's the holidays.

**Takkik** · December 31st, 2008, 05:08 AM

Great, hope it's possible. Thanks you.

**Theking78** · January 16th, 2009, 08:11 AM

We're trying to get a higher-res version out, which will be freely available to anyone who's already purchased it, of course. I haven't personally seen the resolution of the source footage so I can't make any guarantees, but I think it should be possible. Bear with us... it's the holidays.

It would be really appreciated! Thank you!

**MassiveDVD** · February 24th, 2009, 09:13 PM

Ok guys.. I went through some back and forth with editor and it was only technically possible to up-res the video to 720x480. Everyone who buys it from here on out will automatically download the new version, and if you've already bought it and want the new version just go ahead and email me from the same address you placed the order with and I'll get you the new file ASAP.

**Theking78** · March 10th, 2009, 03:30 AM

Just a question, I sent an email to aaron to receive the new download 2 weeks ago but I didn't receive any answer back so I think I can have wrote to thr wrong address... To which address am I supposed to write to download it in high resolution?

Thank you very much!

**MassiveDVD** · March 10th, 2009, 04:01 PM

aaron at massiveblack. same person as massiveDVD.

**Theking78** · March 21st, 2009, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by MassiveDVD

aaron at massiveblack. same person as massiveDVD.

I'm sorry to bother you but I've sent to this address two mails and at least a month have passed but I didn't receive any answer or link back... I'll appreciate if you can take a look into this.
Thank you very much!

**MassiveDVD** · March 24th, 2009, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Theking78

I'm sorry to bother you but I've sent to this address two mails and at least a month have passed but I didn't receive any answer or link back... I'll appreciate if you can take a look into this.
Thank you very much!

Try hitting me up via PM instead of email. A lot of schools and a few other institutions have spam blockers that filter out our emails. I'm guessing that's why you haven't heard back.