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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Xiaochen Fu

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    Xiaochen Fu is a concept artist and illustrator based in Shanghai. He works in a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor and digital. He has an interesting approach in which many of his figures and creatures blend into — or are drawn out of — an array of semi-abstract freeform shapes. His website galleries…

  • H. R. Giger, 1940-2014

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    H.R. Giger was an influential Swiss painter, sculptor, set designer and concept designer. Giger is most known for his designs for the film Aliens, and its successors, as well as working on a number of less well known film projects. He also did work used on numerous album covers and has left his mark on…

  • John Nevarez (update)

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    John Nevarez is a visual development and storyboard artist working in animation. His projects include Monsters University and Cars 2, among others. He has recently left Pixar to establish a freelance career. His long-running blog has examples of his work on various projects, as well as personal work, warm-ups and sketches for fun. Fun is…

  • Skan Srisuwan

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    Singapore based illustrator and concept artist Skan Srisuwan has, in many of his pieces, a fascinating way building up waves of objects, mostly machine-like, that roil through the compositions like flowing, cubist shards of metal or plastic. In Srisuwan’s digital paintings, it looks at though he has divided up his space into forms, then divided…

  • Priscilla Wong

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    To be fair, I haven’t see the new movie, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, but as a fan of the original Peabody’s Improbable History animated shorts from the Rocky and his Friends TV series, I wouldn’t be inclined to think of recasting the very 2-D, very limited animation series — in which writing and voice talent…

  • Scott Kikuta

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    Scott Kikuta is a concept artist and illustrator working in the video gaming industry. His credits include Scribblenauts Unlimited, Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, Dungeon Siege II, Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna, and Halo 3. In a field that is often dominated by heavily rendered approaches, Kikuta has a deft, light touch. He often contrasts…