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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Allison Proulx

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    After spending much of her career in the animation industry, working for companies like Walt Disney Feature Animation and Hanna Barbara, Allison Proulx turned her attention to gallery painting. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design and Art Center College of Design and worked briefly as a freelance illustrator before entering the animation field.…

  • Travisty’s Beard

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    Goro Fujita, who I wrote about in 2008, was kind enough to write and let me know about a new blog called Travisty’s Beard. This is a collaborative art blog whose members are concept, production, character, and design artists from the art department of PDI/DreamWorks. The blog has no official relation to PDI/DreamWorks, it’s just…

  • “Gifted Artist”

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    “Gifted Artist” is a charity art show and auction to benefit the Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital in Loma Linda, California. The event will be held on Saturday December 19th from 5 to 10pm at the CCAA Museum of Art in Rancho Cucamonga. The auction features work by a long list of concept artists, character…

  • Peter de Sève (update)

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    Peter de Sève, a terrific illustrator, New Yorker cover artist and character designer for animated feature films, who I wrote about back in 2006, has a new children’s book (Hooray!), a new blog (double Hooray!) and is the subject of a new monograph (triple Hooray!). The children’s book is The Duchess of Whimsey, written by…

  • Nate Wragg

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    I came across illustrator and animation concept artist Nate Wragg from his participation in the Terrible Yellow Eyes project, and was delighted with his work. Wragg is a member of Pixar Studios, and worked on the cartoon Pursuit. He also was an illustrator for the children’s book Too Many Cooks (Ratatouille), as well as being…

  • Bill Perkins (update)

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    California artist Bill Perkins helped co-found the Plein-air Artists of California in 1983, and has been a member of the Plein-air Painters of America since 1985. Perkins is a recognized teacher. He has taught at the Art Center College of Design and Associates in Art and is currently an instructor at Los Angeles Academy of…