Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Model Sheets (@modelsheets)

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    Model sheets, sometimes called character sets or “settei”, are drawings of characters in various views that are distributed to teams who work on the same animations, comics, or other art or illustration projects for which consistency in the rendering of the character must be maintained between several different artists. Model Sheets (@modelsheets) is a Twitter…

  • Brandon Liao

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    Brandon Liao is a concept artist for the gaming industry, currently working with Riot Games. Beyond that, I know little, as his website and blog don’t offer much in the way of bio, credits or process information. It appears he is working primarily in digital painting, perhaps combined with a bit of CGI modeling, though…

  • Aaron Blaise

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    Aaron Blaise is a wildlife artist, animator, illustrator and character development artist who spent many years with Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he worked on titles like The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan and Brother Bear. After leaving the film industry, Blaise devoted himself to his love…

  • Nikolai Lockertsen (Nikko)

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    Nikolai Lockertsen, who signs his work “Nikko”, is an art director an visual development artist for the film industry, working with Storm Studios in Norway. His approach to digital painting is often rough-textured and gritty, in keeping with the subject matter at hand, but can also be lighter and more cartoony. He frequently casts his…

  • Mingiue Helen Chen

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    Mingiue Helen Chen is a visual development artist, art director and illustrator who has worked in feature animation on titles like Frankenweenie, Wreck-it Ralph, and Big Hero 6. She also worked on the experimental Paperman short, which explored a convergence of GCi and the look of hand drawn animation. Chen’s style ranged from bright and…

  • Noah Klocek

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    Noah Klocek is an art director, production designer and concept artist for the film industry, who has worked for companies like Industrial Light & Magic, PDI/DreamWorks, and Pixar Animation Studios. His film credits include titles like Wall-e, Up and Brave. Much of his production work embodies some of the best characteristics of children’s book illustration…