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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Reto Kaul

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    Reto Kaul is a young (20 yr old) freelance concept artist and illustrator from Switzerland. His web site lists his work experience as concept design, book illustration, covers and fashion design, but doesn’t list specific credits. His portfolio, however, has some nicely atmospheric pieces that show off his talent for dealing with muted light in…

  • Astrona: Space and Astronomical Art Journal

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    Artistic visions of “the heavens” have been with us throughout the history of art, but pictures of space and planetary bodies probably date from the late 1800’s when conjecture about flights to other spheres became the topic of popular literature. Since then artists have portrayed other worlds with varying intent and degrees of scientific accuracy,…

  • Carbonmatter (Dan Wheaton)

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    Carbonmatter is the web site name and professional nickname of matte painter and concept artist Dan Wheaton. Wheaton has worked as an illustrator, designer and creative director for a variety of companies in print and interactive design, but the real focus of his career has been on his love for movies and gaming, particularly those…

  • The Skillful Huntsman

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    Scott Robertson, Entertainment Design Director at the Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, created a project with three of his top students, Khang Le, Mike Yamada, and Felix Yoon, in which they used the Grimm Fairy tale of The Skillful Huntsman as a springboard for a project about the process of learning concept design.…

  • Ron Cobb

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    I’ve been wanting to write a post on Ron Cobb for some time now. Cobb is a cartoonist, film production designer and concept artist from Los Angeles, currently living and working in Sydney, Australia. When I went to write a post on Cobb last year, I was disappointed to find that there wasn’t much material…

  • Virtual Gouache Land (Erik Tiemens)

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    Erik Tiemens is a concept artist and designer working for LucasFilm who also does gallery paintings in oil and gouache, as well as digital sketching. I first reported on Tiemens in September of 2006. Since then his web site doesn’t look like it has gotten a great deal of attention (there is still a promise…