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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • 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…

  • Bobby Chiu

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    Bobby Chiu is a Canadian illustrator and concept designer who also teaches digital painting, both at Seneca College School of Communication Arts and online through the web-based Schoolism. Chiu shares the Imaginism Studios web site with illustrator Kei Acedera, and also collaborates with her on various works. The Imaginism portfolio can be viewed by work…

  • J.P. Targete

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    How about some nice monsters and warriors for a Friday diversion? J.P. Targete paints wonderfully textured imaginary worlds populated with snarling monsters, glowering demons, deranged warriors, power-mad wizards, seething dragons, jealous witches and all manner of fun beasties and grotesqueries. Targete is an illustrator, concept artist and art director for the publishing and gaming industries.…