Category: Concept & Visual Dev.
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Ian Chiew
Originally from Malaysia, Ian Jun Wei Chiew studied here in the U.S. at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and is currently working at Microsoft Turn 10 Studios. Chiew is adept at representing the the effects of both light and atmosphere, and I particularly enjoy those pieces in which he uses both together. His…
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Richard Anderson
Like a stage magician, concept artist and illustrator Richard Anderson deals in suggestion and illusion. With an adept skill for suggesting complexity within simplicity, Anderson pulls from his arrays of geometric, semi-abstract forms the essence of an image, leaving your own imagination to fill in with details that don’t actually exist in the original. His…
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Nurö (Herve Groussin)
Nurö is the professional name used by gaming industry concept artist and illustrator Hervé Groussin. Groussin’s website is divided into sections for corporate, personal and published (illustration), and you can find additional examples of his work on hie deviantART gallery. Groussin applies his moody, atmospheric and viscerally textural style to both science fiction subjects and…
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Laurent Gapaillard
Laurent Gapaillard is a French concept and visual development artist for the film and gaming industries. He is also noted for children’s book illustration, particularly The Yark, written by Bertrand Santini (images above, bottom four) Gapaillard has a blog, though it hasn’t been active for a couple of years, and doesn’t include much in the…
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Kalen Chock
Kalen Chock is a California based concept and visual development artist, whose clients include Industrial Light and Magic, Cryptozoic, CGMA, Autodesk, Ember Lab, Virtual Toys, and Fantasy Flight Games. His blog includes a number of his professional pieces, but much of it is devoted to his personal work, sketches, experiments and demonstration pieces for classes…
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Wayne Haag
Wayne Haag is an Australian matte painter and illustrator whose film credits include The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings, The Wolverine, Maze Runner and Gods of Egypt, as well as the television series Farscape. Haag works both in digital and traditional media, but prefers when possible to paint science fiction subjects in oil. As…