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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Hugo Puzzuoli

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    Hugo Puzzuoli is a concept artist who is originally from France, and now based in Quebec City, Canada. His blog features some of his professional work, such as his concepts for Assasin’s Creed Syndicate, and his Artstation portfolio features more of his personal projects. In his personal work, Puzzuoli often takes bright, appealingly graphic approach…

  • Anton Fadeev

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    Anton Fadeev is a concept artist based in Sochi, Russia, whose focus is on environments. Fadeev works with an unusually bright high-chroma palette and complementary color schemes, that give his work an immediate appeal. He sets a nice balance between naturalistic textures and pleasingly graphic rendering with lots of areas of flat color. Much of…

  • Woonyoung Jung

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    Woonyoung Jung is a visual development artist with Dreamworks Animation, but most of his online presence is devoted to his personal work — in particular two delightful series. One is “Young Witches”, in which young women in colorful — rather then dour black — witches hats are apparently on vacation or an extended road trip,…

  • Raoul Vitale

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    Raoul Vitale is a fantasy artist, illustrator and concept artist who appears to work primarily in oil. His illustration clients include “Magic the Gathering” art for Wizards of the Coast, and his private commissions often focus on scenes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Vitale frequently works with a controlled palette, allowing the wonderful…

  • Shae Shatz

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    Shae Shatz is an illustrator and concept artist based in Los Angeles whose clients include Columbia Pictures, Disney Feature Films, Motiga Games and Sony Computer Entertainment. His wesbite portfolio is divided into projects and includes sketches and preliminaries as well as finished concept renderings. I particularly admire his handling of the textures of stone and…

  • Jean-Claude Mézières

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    I haven’t yet seen the new Luc Besson film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but I have read a number of the French comics (bandes dessinées) on which the movie was based — Valérian and Laureline (alternately, Valerian: Spatio-Temporal Agent), created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. Mézières is an…