The Art of Jeff Murchie

Here are a couple more concepts from LOTRO that you may have seen on the LOTRO official website but I have not shown them myself just yet.

The first monster is the Rogmul, which literally means "Demon Slave" in the dark tongue. Wow that sounds dorky:) I have attached a screenshot from Lord of the Rings Online with the Rogmul which was modeled in Maya by Mark Lizotte, a very talented production artist. The beautiful environment in the screenshot was conceptualized by my friend Todd Rueping who is an incredibly talented artist.

The second monster is called the Gurturog which is a troll that was bred to be more intelligent.

Here is my design for one of the Angmarim Nomads. in Lord of the Rings Online.

Well, thats me working at Turbine in a full suit of Plate Mail armor:) One of the artists, Jeanette Chamberlain, brought her husband's suit in for me to wear for "reference." haha!

Here is the first second age elven armor set I designed for Lord of the Rings Online. I designed dozens of armor sets for the Dwarves, Elves, Breeland Human and Westernesse classes. I decided the best way to concept the armor sets in mass quantity would be to create the paper barbie doll accessory route.

I was very excited to see the my Witch King's design from Lord of the Rings Online of the Cover of PC Gamer!! I also uploaded the orthographies I drew to help the modelers:)

This piece was recently accepted into Spectrum 14 which will be published this November!! It is such a honor to be in the company of so many amazing artists!

Lord of the Rings Online was finally shipped yesterday, April 24, 2007!! So far it has been received very well in the MMO community and I hope it becomes a huge succe

Here is the Uruk-Hai concept I conceptualized for Lord of the Rings Online that was featured in the CG cinematic as well as on the November issue of Computer Games Magazine. This was the first design that I had featured on a magazine cover.