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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • 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…

  • 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.…