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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • 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…

  • Peter Popken

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    Peter Popken is a concept artist, illustrator, visual development and storyboard artist for the film industry. He has worked on films like V for Vendetta, Aeon Flux and The Bourne Supremacy. Many of the film concept images on his site are dramatic landscapes or cityscapes, painted in widescreen ratios. There are also character designs, storyboards…

  • Vyle (David Levy)

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    Vyle is the professional pseudonym for concept artist, art director and designer David Levy. He works primarily in the gaming industry and is perhaps most noted for his work on Prince of Persia. He has also done work in the film industry. Vyle seems to work primarily digitally, usually in Photoshop and sometimes back and…

  • Armand Serrano (update)

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    I posted about visual development artist Armand Serrano last month. Since then his web site has had a complete redesign with added material and a much improved interface. I mentioned in my original post that the interface of the old site was a bit frustrating and difficult to use. His new design is superb and…

  • Aaron St. Goddard

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    Canadian concept artist Aaron St. Goddard has done illustration, concept design, storyboards and matte painting for companies like Piazo Publishing (who seems to have taken over Dungeon and Dragon magazines from TSR), Darrel Brown Media, Radical Entertainment and Mainframe Entertainment. (Mainframe is responsible for my all-time favorite 3-D CGI TV show, Reboot.) St. Goddard’s site…