Category: Concept & Visual Dev.
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Brian Taylor
When I first encountered Brian Taylor’s work in 2001 it was in the form of a fascinating project called Rustboy (images above, top row), a web site created to chronicle the progress of his desire to create a CGI animated movie on his own, from concept sketches to final renderings, using only home computer level…
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Christophe Vacher
Before relocating to California in 1996, French artist Christophe Vacher worked for Disney’s Paris-based animation studio, painting backgrounds for features like The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (I want to know how the pitch meeting went for that movie. “Hey, I’ve got a great idea, let’s make a cheerful animated feature about… The Hunchback of Notre…
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How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web
In the thirteen years I’ve been on the web, twelve of which I’ve spent doing professional web site design, and the last two of which have sent me to hundreds of artists’ web sites, I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that the thing artists want most when placing their art on the web is for…
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Xiangyuan Jie
Xiangyuan Jie is a Chinese painter, born in Hunan province, now living in Florida. He originally studied theatre set design and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing with a BFA in that specialty, to which, in a way, he would later come full circle as a background artist for animated films. He…
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Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi
I could have done a post on Daisuke Tsutsumi in any of several different genres of artwork — illustration, comics, painting or movie concept art. Though his primary occupation is as a film concept artist, Tsutsumi, or “Dice” as he is called, continues to pursue his interest in the other forms. As a concept artist,…