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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Raymond Swanland

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    Raymond Swanland has spent much of his career as a concept artist wih the gaming company Oddworld Inhabitants, working in various capacities from conceptual design to art direction and even marketing. Now that Oddworld is transitioning into film development, Swanland is following suit. Outside of his Oddworld work, Swanland has created illustrations for fantasy and…

  • Bill Perkins

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    Bill Perkins has worked as a concept artist, production designer, layout artist, art director and storyboard artist for companies like Walt Disney Feature Animation, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, ILM, and 9th Ray Studios. His film credits include The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Fantasia 2000, Space Jam, Shrek, and the upcoming John Carter and…

  • Andrew Jones

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    Andrew Jones, or Android Jones as he is sometimes known, is a concept artist and an early adopter of digital art tools. He has worked for ILM, Black Isle Studios, Retro Studios and is currently art director for Massive Black. He was integral to the concepts for well known games like Nintendo’s Metroid Prime and…

  • José "Emroca" Flores

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    José Flores, who goes by the name “Emroca”, is Senior Concept Designer at Highmoon Studios, a gaming company in California. As often seems to be the case with concept artists, his current projects are under a shroud of competitive secrecy, but you can see nice range of his personal and professional work on his web…

  • Ovi Nedelcu

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    Ovi Nedelcu is a character designer and stroyboard artist for animated film. He is currently working for Laika, an animation studio owned by Phil Knight, the co-founder and Chairman of Nike, on a new short feature called Coraline, which in turn is based on a novella by Neil Gaiman, who is known for his writing…

  • Journey to Chandara

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    I recently did an update on James Gurney, and I don’t normally do two posts about the same artist in such quick succession, but I finally had a chance to spend some time enjoying my new copy of his latest book, Journey to Chandara, and I was just knocked out. Journey to Chandara (more detail…