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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • 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…

  • Mike Corriero

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    Designing imaginary creatures takes more than just drawing or painting skills; good creatures, to my mind, require imagination and originality, or they seem like everybody else’s creatures. Mike Corriero does terrific creatures. Corriero is a freelance concept artist and illustrator for the gaming and film industries. His clients include Radical Entertainment/Vivendi Universal Games, Challenge Games,…

  • The Art Center (blog)

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    The Art Center is a blog devoted to, as the tagline says, “Sharing Ideas and Tips from Artist to Artist”. An offshoot of the Character Design blog, which is devoted largely to interviews with artists working in the film, gaming and illustration fields, The Art Center features tutorials, walk-throughs, how to videos and discussions of…

  • Robh Ruppel (update)

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    Robh Ruppel is a well known art director, concept artist, character designer and matte painter for the film and gaming industries. He was the Art Director for the animated feature films Meet the Robinsons and Brother Bear and did visual development work on films like Treasure Planet, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Tarzan, Mulan and The…

  • Art Blocks for Ghana

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    There are numerous tragic situations around the globe today, some sudden and unexpected, some ongoing; you might think of them as acute and chronic. Art Blocks for Ghana addresses one of the latter, and though it may seem small in scope, it is with small direct actions that we most effectively make changes in the…