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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Malcolm McNeill

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    Malcolm McNeill is an illustrator, concept artist and comics artist based in New York. His work has appeared in publications like The New York Times, National Lampoon and titles for Marvel Comics. McNeill was collaborating with William S. Burroughs, before his death, on an “word/image novel” called Ah Pook is Here (image above, top), based,…

  • Chris Appelhans

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    I chanced on Chris Appelhans from a two-month old link from John Nevarez’s blog, did a little digging and found that he is being widely mentioned at the moment. Good thing because his own site has some yummy art but very little actual biographical or background info. Chris Appelhans is a visual development artist who,…

  • Robh Ruppel

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    Robh Ruppel is a visual development artist and art director for Disney Feature Animation, and has worked on movies like Mulan, The Emporer’s New Groove, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, Tarzan, and Brother Bear, for which he was Art Director. He has also done gaming art and worked on gaming worlds like Ravenloft and Planescape for TSR…

  • John Wallin Liberto

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    John Wallin Liberto is a matte painter and concept artist based in Sweden who works in the film and gaming industries. He has worked films such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , Tim Burton’s Big Fish, Riddick and Alien Vs Predator, done video concept art for the Shania Twain “Gonna Getcha Good”…

  • H. R. Giger

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    Sympathy for the Devil Dept.: I couldn’t resist a segue from yesterday’s post about Andrew Gonzalez’s images of transcendent grace to H. R. Giger’s grotesque collisions between tortured biological forms and nightmare machinery. Sort of balances the scales. (“Angels: 1, Devils: 1, highlights at 11.”) H. R. Giger is a Swiss painter most noted for…

  • Ralph McQuarrie

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    Ralph McQuarrie, although now retired, had a long and distinguished career as a pioneering and influential concept artist for the film and TV industries. He is most noted as the design consultant and conceptual artist for the original three Star Wars films. It’s hard to overstate the impact he had, not only on the look…