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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Early Star Wars Storyboards

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    Nearly all movies these days, an certainly all movies that involve animation or special effects, are plotted out visually beforehand using storyboards; a comic strip like series of drawings, often done simply in markers, showing the basic on screen composition and sequences of action. There is a nice Flickr set of early storyboards from the…

  • Erwin Madrid

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    Erwin Madrid is a concept artist for the entertainment industry, currently based in San Francisco, where he earned his BFA at the Academy of Art College. He has worked for PDI/Dreamworks Animation on films like Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and the Madagascar sequel. He has also done concept art for the gaming industry for…

  • Chris Appelhans (update)

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    Chris Appelhans, who I profiled back in 2006, has added some new images to his site, Froghat Studios, along with a fun short Superman animation. The latter is more of a slide show than an actual animation, but it works quite well, timed to music and with nice touches (I love the scene of Superman…

  • Björn Hurri

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    Björn Hurri is an artist who, according to the sparse biographical information on his web site, will “soon live in the UK” and work for the gaming company Creative Assembly. Hurri also does freelance illustration, and indulges in imaginative exercises for his own amusement; one of which is his series of steampunk versions of Star…

  • Jaime Jones

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    Illustrator Jaime Jones studied at the Corcoran College of Art and has worked for companies like Arenanet, and currently Bungie, as well as doing freelance work for Wizards of the Coast, Image Comics, Alderac Entertainment and others. Jones works primarily digitally and his online galleries are divided into sections like Digital Paintings, Digital Sketches and…

  • Hethe Srodawa

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    Hethe Srodawa is an entertainment industry concept artist currently working for Rockstar Games. Like many in his field, Srodawa paints digitally in Photoshop. I came across his work, specifically the image above, “Enchanted“, on the CGSociety site. Srodawa has a blog called The Pirate’s Cave, Illustrated Memoirs of a Dead Pirate, in which he posts…