Full Scale Assault: A Side Project by Jason A. Das

Vol. 1 - Pg 12 - A Hail of Bullets

2009-03-04T18:55:00.000-08:00

After months had past after the release of Terminator 2, low and behold Terminator 1 was on TV. I had never seen the 1st one in its entirety. At my young age at the time I was still wrapping my head about time travel. Back to the Future was extraordinary at the time for me; but Terminator took it to another step. In this picture I show the barrage of bullets Arnold was taking as his flesh is being shredded off to show his exoskeleton.

Vol. 1 - Pg 9,10 & 11- I <3 Terminator 2

2009-03-04T18:40:00.000-08:00

Here are some more Terminator 2: Judgement Day inspired pics I had drawn when I was young. I think there were based off photographic references. At the time also they had released the new T2 Arcade Game. That was an awesome light gun game. Played it whenever I had the chance in the Pickering Town Centre.

Vol. 1 - Pg 8 - Powered by T2

2009-01-28T08:15:00.000-08:00

So it begins....Judgment Day. Well not really, I'm itching to go see this movie. But before it can come out, you gotta be exposed to the hype machine powered by Hollywood. This is where I learned about trailers. I saw previews, commercials, ET specials, even toys. And all of them consisted of that iconic image. A flaming background with a robot skull. With red lit eyes, it was the most bad ass pic you could ever imagine. It stayed in my head for a long time and eventually I put it on paper.

Vol. 1 - Pg 7 - Every Villain Suffers a Meltdown

2009-01-28T08:01:00.000-08:00

With the creation of the Jah Clan, I needed to stock up on adversaries / rogue gallery for them to fight. I think this was around the time of DC Comics releasing The Death of Superman. I became more interested in Superman during that time. I wanted to see this villain that finally destroys the Man of Steel. Thus I was introduced to Doomsday.

My villain was named Meltdown. I wanted to create some big and menacing, and possessed nuclear powers. He seemed too powerful for the Jah Clan, but was he the right fit for this Jah Clan universe? He was a start though.

Side Note: After looking at Meltdown, he reminded me of the Super Mutants from the video game Fallout 3. Big bruting characters packing weapons, with enough radiation exposure to make you look radiating. Hmm I wonder if I have enough grounds to sue Bethseda Software? lol.

Vol 1. - Pg 6 - Ninjas with Hoodies

2009-01-18T15:44:00.000-08:00

I was in a fashion stage in my life, where I like wearing hoodie sweatshirts. And I combined that with my love for ninjas and create The Jah Clan. A cross between Ninja Turtles' Foot Clan and yet a bunch of brothers as well. The names were not that original. But the weapon designs were like swords from Thundercats. Here's my 1st 2 creations Fire-jah and Dark-jah

Vol 1. - Pg 5 - A little D&D time

2009-01-18T10:57:00.000-08:00

I was never really into Dungeons and Dragons as a kid. One time I saw this Unsolved Mysteries episode (hosted by Ultra Magnus' Robert Stack). They relived this incident about a kid who had jumped off a cliff. Turns out the parents looked into his room, and found a D&D RPG guide, that if you took a leap of faith, you'd level up. Something on thoses lines, but the way the show reenacted the D&D rituals scared the hell out of me.

Later on, I was shown these books by a friend about stories that spin out of the D&D universe. I liked some of the spot illustrations between the chapters. So I asked to borrow the book and started copying some of the characters. Later on, a store popped up in our local mall called "Leisure World". It was a heaven for RPG fans. I went there to see other D&D artwork, as well as other RPG series.

Vol 1. - Pg 4 - Marvel at my Wolverine

2009-01-10T14:29:00.000-08:00

Wolverine, 1 of many X-men I was introduced to back then. I was so proud to know he was Canadian. The claws of animantium was just amazing. This sketch I believe was based of a Marvel Comic trading card, produced by Fleer. Those cards were beautiful. Spot varnishes, metallic inks, power stats on the back. Better than baseball cards for sure. You'll noticed Wolverine is a bit off the page. At this point in my life, I wasn't good at composition, I drew and hope everything fitted on the page. :)

Vol. 1 - Pg. 3 - Techno Force: Massacre

2009-01-10T14:22:00.000-08:00

"I'll buy that for a dollar" -Fat Salesguy from Robocop

Robocop was a movie I was dying to see. However the violence level back then, wasn't to my parents liking. So eventually when I saw Robocop, Robocop 2 was just coming out. ED-209 now that was a sic robot. But the new Robocop replacement named "Robocop 2 (:s)" was a giant badass. That design stayed in my head for a long time, which inspired me the 2nd member of Techno Force. Massacre was born.

Vol. 1 - Pg. 2 - Techno Force: Eliminator

2009-01-07T08:36:00.000-08:00

It was the year of Terminator 2 : Judgement Day. As a kid I loved those robot induced after school shows. Something like Transformers, Voltron, GO-BOTS (uughh), and other anime series (Sabre Rider and the Star Sheriffs anyone?). At school we were asked to come up with a poster design for a made up movie. Thus that's how Techno Force was born. My first character was name Eliminator. Sketchy tin can man with a ton of firepower popping out of every limb possible.

Bookmark 2 : Happy New Year

2009-01-06T11:49:00.000-08:00

I know I'm getting bad at this. However things were piling up and now I gotta get focused for 2009. I've put Full Scale Assault on hold for too long, so its time to start posting more sketches in the new year. I would also like to wish you a happy holidays. In the mean time visit my website to see some of my design work at www.chameleon-studios.com

See ya later

Bookmark 1 : Reasons being

2008-06-26T11:49:00.000-07:00

I know I haven't posted any images lately. Sorry my scanner hasn't been running well. I'm trying to get to work properly in my OS X environment. Yes, I work on a MAC, and I refuse to go back! I could go on and on about my experiences between PC vs. Mac. I'll remember to save that as another bookmark later on.

Vol 1. - Pg 1 - The obligatory Spiderman sketch, get use to it.

2008-05-12T07:44:00.000-07:00

I loved watching the Spiderman cartoon series when I was a young child. I even read the comic strips in the Toronto Star, before they were taken out. I didn't collect comics when I was young, due to the cost and keeping up with the issues. This pose I found through the cover of a Sega Master System game for Spiderman, through the years, my spidey drawing skills got better.

Sketchbook Vol. 1 - BIG PAD

2008-05-12T07:31:00.000-07:00

This was my 1st ever full fledged sketchbook. I started drawing in this book since 1991. I was taking art classes at the Pickering Recreation Complex where I met Moria Duhunney (not sure if I spelt that correctly). Every Saturday morning I would come to "The Rec" and practice drawing techniques like drawing apples and abtract shapes like positive and negative shapes. Lot of excerises, I even took it with me to school to doodles and practice as well.

Let's Start This Off With A Poster

2008-05-01T10:52:00.000-07:00

Hello, and welcome to the 1st ever blog posting on Full Scale e Assault. Back in 2002 when I was a student at George Brown College, I had the pleasure of submitting my work for the graduating class showcase. Top displays would then go on to the Grad Show held at the Design Exchange in Toronto, Canada.

Let's cut it short, I didn't get that far. There's a lot that can be said on the whole judging process,, but I don't want to get into those details as of right now. So for my theme of the grad show, we were given limitations. One be space, approximately 20x30 inches of black bristol board. A lot of my fellow students wanted to showcase all their work. So they'd reduce all their samples on the photocopier, and paste it on looking like a collage. Instead, I looked at the space as advertising opportunity. I figured I'd create my design as like a a movie poster. Kind of like seeing those light boxes at the cinema (Owhhhh I should have done that, light my display up) and decided to tease the audience of some of the samples I could do. And that's where I came up with a title "Full Scale Assault" It was my take to bombard my viewing audience with a taste of everything that I was able to design, . Whether it be ads, print , logos, illustrations, web design, cartoons, comics, you name it, I've probably designed it.

I used a Nokian font, fr on old school Nokia phones, you know the brick sized ones, and cut out the initials F.S.A. Using that block font , I made thumbnails of some of my school projects I did. Now instead of using the cliche tank image or army weapon of choice., I decided to use a giant Macross mech. Whhaaaaaa? Yes it got more attention than I thought. Mostly because of the fascination with Asian students who knew little English, attached easily to this image of robot. After the show,

I decided to take my piece and hang it in my room, however it was collecting dust and fading from sun exposure. Also printing the piece was a pain, I had to print in "tile mode" which was so ghetto at the time. So that was how it came to be, So now I've re-released a new poster on the same idea, except I used a images a a solider rally. Have a look see.