Category: Concept & Visual Dev.
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Scott Robertson
Specialization in art has a long history, from the Dutch genre painters of the 17th century who specialized in still lifes or interiors, or the artists who specialized in painting birds or other animals and would contribute their specialty to another, more recognized work (e.g. Frans Synders painting the eagle in Ruben’s Prometheus Bound), to…
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Marcos Mateu-Mestre
There are some people who draw in a way that looks like they load their pens with pure liquified fun. Concept artist Marcos Mateu-Mestre has a wonderful character of line and a jaunty, casual style that makes it look like the lines danced out and created the image of their own accord. His loose, relaxed…
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Armand Serrano
Armand Serrano is a visual development artist for Sony Pictures Animation. He started out with FilCartoons, a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera, on projects like The New Adventures of Johnny Quest, Young Robin Hood and Pirates of Dark Water. He then moved to with Philippine Animation Studio (PASI), supervising layout for Marvel TV animation like X-Men and…
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Samuel Michlap
One of the really great trends I’ve noticed in the past year is an increase in the number of animators, production designers, storyboard artists and character designers who are keeping blogs, posting their work and often discussing their creative process. Samuel Michlap has been a layout artist, art director and production designer, working for companies…
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Mathias Verhasselt
One of the interesting approaches to developing a style and warming up for larger projects that is common among digital painters, particularly those involved in concept design, is the practice of “speed painting”. The immediacy, absence of concerns with drying time and absorption of traditional materials, the ability to change brush sizes almost instantly and…
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Iain McCaig
The fantastic characters that populate modern fantasy and science fiction movies have to take their initial form in someone’s imagination, long before the casting director, costumers and actors bring them to the screen. Usually, they first come to life in the mind of a concept designer. The more fertile that designer’s imagination, the more striking…