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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Eduardo Pena

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    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…

  • Paul Sullivan

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    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,…

  • Jaemin Kim

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    Jaemin Kim is a concept artist working in the video game industry and specializing in creature concept design. His wonderful digital rendering of detailed skin texture, leathery wings and rough scales make his dragons and dragon-like creatures particularly well-realized. His website leads to a gallery on CGHub, and his blog features lots of sketches. Kim…

  • Alex Ruiz

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    Alex Ruiz is a concept artist and illustrator working in the film television and video game industries. Much of his character work is intentionally dark, but the pieces I find of most interest are his environments and imaginative experiments. In these, his digital paintings often have a fascinating character combining biomorphic, architectonic and mechanical forms,…

  • Emmanuel Malin (update)

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    Emmanuel Malin is an illustrator, art director and concept artist for the gaming industry based in Paris. I initially profiled Malin here on Lines and Colors back in 2010. Malin creates fascinatingly textural images with layers of shapes within larger shapes defining his compositions. He works with both bright and muted color palettes, often contrasting…

  • Eytan Zana

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    Eytan Zana is an illustrator and concept artist working in both the gaming and film industries. He has worked on titles like The Last Of Us and Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception. Beyond that, I know little, as his blog doesn’t give a great deal of background information. It does, however, have examples of his wonderfully…