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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • 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…

  • Ian Chiew

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    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…

  • Richard Anderson

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    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…

  • Nurö (Herve Groussin)

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    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…

  • Laurent Gapaillard

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    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…