Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Into the Pixel

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    Into the Pixel is a yearly juried art exhibit showcasing concept and visual development art from the gaming industry. Sponsored by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and the Entertainment Software Association, the exhibition is displayed at the E3 Expo. You can also view the selections from this year, as well as the past…

  • More Paul Felix

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    As I mentioned last year, John Nevarez continues to maintain and add to this unofficial blog for the work of the superb visual development artist Paul Felix. The latest additions are a wonderful series of visual notes on perspective, shading, composition and more that are like a classroom in themselves. Great stuff. [Via Scott Altmann…

  • Jason Scheier

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    Jason Scheier is a visual development artist and concept designer based in Pasadena, California. His clients include DreamWorks Animation SKG, NBC Universal, Anonymous Content, Honda Automotive, General Electric and DreamWorks Feature Films. The images on his website gallery have names, though they don’t include references to the projects for which they were designed. Scheier’s focus…

  • The Making of Gobelins Shorts

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    I’ve written several times in the past about the wonderful student animation coming out of Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris. It seems that each example I see is another small triumph for hand drawn animation in a world dominated by increasingly formulaic computer CGI. Writing for On Animation, Daniel Caylor…

  • Calum Alexander Watt

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    Calum Alexander Watt is a concept artist and character designer working for a gaming developer in the UK. He started out doing comics work for 2000AD, and briefly worked in graphic design before moving into his current role. Watt starts with sketches drawn and inked in traditional media, using a blue mechanical pencil on tracing…

  • Carter Goodrich

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    Illustrator, author and character designer Carter Goodrich has a drawing a rendering style that is so springy, energetic and full of lively linework and color, that it’s just a complete joy to look through his portfolio. Even though his website has fairly extensive galleries of his book illustrations, New Yorker covers, editorial illustrations and character…