Category: Concept & Visual Dev.
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DUSSO (Yanick Dusseault – update)
Many of the images that we accept, almost without question, as the backgrounds for scenes in motion pictures, are in part or in total the creation of matte painters. These image can make us believe the action is taking place in a fantastic other world, or in a slightly modified version of this one. DUSSO…
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Matthias Lechner
Matthias Lechner is a German born art director, production designer and visual development artist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is currently Art Director for a 3-D feature from Vangard animation called Space Chimps, but what I found most fascinating in his online galleries are the production and design drawings for a…
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John Watkiss
John Watkiss has created visual development art for films like Disney’s Tarzan, Treasure Planet, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Fantasia 2000, Skycaptain and the World of Tomorrow and the proposed Sandman. In his movie related career he has done work for Twentieth Century Fox, Dreamworks, Francis Ford Coppola and Ridley Scott Associates. Watkiss has also had…
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Stephan Martiniere (update)
Since I wrote about Stephan Martiniere a couple of years ago, he has updated his site, and his career, with numerous additions. Martiniere is a concept artist, art director and science fiction artist with a fertile imagine, superb skills as an artist and long, impressive resumé. In addition to his many stunning book covers and…
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Seth Engstrom
Seth Engstrom has worked as an art director, concept artist, layout artist and production designer for animated features like Avatar, Bee Movie, Shark Tale, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmeron, Sinbad and El Dorado. His blog contains an interesting range of images, from color and black and white concept art from the above mentioned films to…
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Tim Warnock (update)
Matte paintings are paintings that produce the illusion of a background or part of a background in film. They can also form part of a foreground. Matte paintings are almost as old as movies themselves, and were originally painted on glass, and positioned in front of, and/or behind the actors (or stop motion creatures), creating…