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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Syd Mead (update)

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    When I first wrote about futurist, concept artist and industrial designer extraordinaire Syd Mead back in November of 2005, I expressed my disappointment with the lack of a gallery on his official site. Unfortunately, that hasn’t changed. In the intervening year and a half, the official site has changed little, except to add an annoyingly…

  • Matt Gaser

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    Matt Gaser is a concept artist currently working for Lucasfilm Animation on the new Star Wars CG television series. He was Senior Concept Artist for Stormfront Studios on their recent game Forgotten Realms Dreamstone. Prior to that he was Concept Artist on their game for The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers. He started…

  • William Joyce

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    I finally got to see Meet the Robinsons, Disney’s 3-D, 3-D CGI animated feature. (How are we going to phrase that?) I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised and liked it much more than I anticipated. Part of that is due to the design work, adapted from concept drawings by William Joyce, who…

  • James Akers

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    I’m constantly amazed at the way in which we, as artists, allow ourselves to be locked into restrictive little boxes by accepting and participating in an unspoken hierarchy of the artistic value of different genres of visual arts. Those in the fine arts community, even within all of the strata it contains, look down on…

  • Francis Tsai

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    Francis Tsai was trained as an architect, but now works as an illustrator, concept designer and visual development artist for the gaming industry. His website, TeamGT Studios, which he shares with architect Linda Glaze, contains a portfolio of his illustration, concept design and “other stuff“, which includes sketches, experiments and life drawings. Tsai appears to…

  • Daniel Cox

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    Daniel Cox is an Australian concept artist and matte painter working at Weta Digtital, the special effects house that was behind the Lord of the Rings movies and Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong. Cox is working with them on projects like Fantastic Four 2: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, 30 Days of Night…