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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Charles Lee

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    Charles Lee is a visual development artist who has worked with Riot Games, Blizzard Entertainments, Sony Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Obsidian and Spark. He has a particularly deft touch with suggesting light sources within larger areas of subdued values, as in his science fiction themed cityscapes. He also uses muted value relationships in his atmospheric environments.…

  • Bayard Wu

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    Bayard Wu is a concept artist and illustrator based in Shenzhen, China. He works in the fantasy genre, creating scenes with dragons, monsters and warriors. His dragons, in particular, are rendered with nicely tactile textural characteristics, emphasized by dramatic lighting and muted color palettes. He also places his scenes in atmospheric backgrounds, with suggestions of…

  • Finnian MacManus

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    Originally from Chicago, Finnian MacManus is a concept artist based in Pasadena, CA. His clients include VSA Partners, Easley Dunne Games and Sony Santa Monica Studio. MacManus works in a digital mixed-media approach, combining digital painting in Photoshop with CG modeling in Cinema 4D and Vue. He has a nice touch for creating environments and…

  • Eliza Ivanova

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    Eliza Ivanova is an animator and illustrator based in San Francisco and currently working with Pixar Animation Studios. Her feature film credits include The Good Dinosaur, Inside Out, Monsters University and Brave, as well as short films Toy Story of Terror and The Dam Keeper. Her website consists primarily of personal sketches, many in Moleskine…

  • Karla Ortiz

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    Karla Ortiz is a concept artist, illustrator and gallery artist who has worked with film and gaming companies Paragon Studios/NcSoft, Ubisoft, Kabam, Industrial Light & Magic and Marvel Film Studios, as well as publishers Wizards of the Coast, Ace Books, Tor Books. Her illustrations have a refined, classical approach, with much attention paid to to…

  • James Gurney’s Fantasy in the Wild

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    In his “In the Wild” series of instructional painting videos, painter, illustrator, writer and instructor James Gurney has previously given us Watercolor in the Wild and Gouache in the Wild (links to my reviews), delving into the use of those mediums on location. He has followed up with an interesting variation, Fantasy in the Wild:…