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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Ming Fan

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    Ming Fan (or “fanming” as he is sometimes credited) is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator based in Shanghai. He specializes in environments — fantastical imaginary landscapes and cityscapes. He renders them in lavish detail, often creating compositions in which there is a primary focal point along with two or more secondary areas of interest…

  • Torstein Nordstrand

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    Torstein Nordstrand is an illustrator and concept artist based in the Bergen area of Norway. His clients include St Martin’s Press, Random House, Wizards of the Coast, Upper Deck, White Wolf Publishing, Cappelen Forlag and Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. There are portfolios of his work on his own website, the Shannon Associates site and on CGHub.…

  • Mike Bear

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    Mike Bear is a concept artist, illustrator and comics artist. His clients include Rockstar Games, Hasbro, Devil’s Due Publishing, Royal Elastics, Lolapps, Inc., Popcap, and EA. Bear’s sketchblog includes some examples of his professional work but more often works in progress, personal flights of fancy, sketches, life drawings, and other graphic meanderings — a visual…

  • Per Haagensen

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    Per Haagensen is a Norwegian concept artist and illustrator based in Oslo. He appears to work primarily digitally in Photoshop. Other than that, I know little. His own website is not yet launched, and there isn’t much background information on the site of his artists’ rep, Shannon Associates or on his CG SOciety portfolio. There…

  • Sam Burley

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    Sam Burley is an illustrator who was formerly an matte painter; beyond that, his website offers little information. His work shows his matt painting history, with beautifully realized landscapes and environments, but he also populates them with dynamic and wonderfully rendered creatures. Fortunately, Burley provides good size images on his site, as his work shows…

  • Jake Parker (update)

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    Jake Parker (no relation to your correspondent) is an illustrator, comics artist and visual development artist based in Utah. His visual development credits include work on Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who and Titan A.E. He is familiar to many as the author and artist of the Missile Mouse all…