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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • 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…

  • Olga Antonenko and Arseny Gutov (update)

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    When I first wrote about Russian concept artists, matte painters and illustrators Olga Antonenko and Arseny Gutov back in 2006, I was disappointed that their shared website, CGpolis didn’t assign credits for individual pieces, so it was impossible to determine which works were by one artist or the other, or whether any or all were…

  • Ben Mauro

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    Benjamin Mauro is a concept artist and designer for the gaming and feature film industries, whose credits include work for WETA Workshop, Design Studio Press, LucasFilm, Sony Pictures Animation and others. His work has been featured in books like Expose 5, Expose 7 and D’Artiste Concept Art from Ballistic Publishing, and Alien Race and Cosmic…