Category: Concept & Visual Dev.
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John Nevarez (update)
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…
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Skan Srisuwan
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…
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Priscilla Wong
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…
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Scott Kikuta
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…
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Eduardo Pena
Singapore based concept and visual development artist Eduardo Pena has an ability to give his digital paintings an unusually effective feeling of atmosphere and scale. Even among visual development artists, who often strive to achieve those characteristics in their work, Pena has developed his ability to suggest large scale in his scenes, and to set…
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Paul Sullivan
Concept artist and character designer Paul Sullivan has managed to create a particularly appealing balance between detailed rendering and a jaunty, cartoon-like drawing style — giving his digital paintings a lighthearted flavor without losing the drama often characteristic of concept art. Projects he has worked on include: The Book of Life, Megamind, Turkeys, Afro Samurai,…