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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Seth Engstrom

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    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…

  • Tim Warnock (update)

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    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…

  • Chet Zar

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    Chet Zar’s site has a subtitle of “Painter of Dark”. In addition to being a good sendup of a certain franchise gallery painter, it’s a pretty concise description of the tone of his work. In his gallery work, Zar paints monsters, gruesome, grotesque and deliberately disconcerting. His eerie “portraits” glare out at you with glazed,…

  • Gnomon Workshop: Live!, June 2008

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    The Gnomon Workshop, which is the online extension of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, is hosting Gnomon Workshop: Live!, a live weekend workshop at the school on June 14th and 15th, 2008. These in person workshops, meant to bring together interested participants and leading professionals in the fields of concept art, production…

  • Robert McCall

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    In some ways Robert McCall is an inheritor of the mantle of pioneering space artist Chesley Bonestell, continuing to document the space program and visually forecast its future, as well as the future of mankind as we step off our little blue island into the vast sea of space. McCall first gained notice for his…

  • Sergy Skachkov

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    Sergy Skachkov is a Russian concept artist, who is currently doing freelance work for films and games. Except for a brief bio on CapucinesBoulevard, I can find very little in the way of information about him or his professional work. He doesn’t have his own web site (at least that I can find), but instead…