Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Armand Serrano

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    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…

  • Samuel Michlap

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    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…

  • Mathias Verhasselt

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    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…

  • Iain McCaig

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    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…

  • Dermot Power

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    Dermot Power is a concept artist and designer whose work not only has a wonderful degree of variation from project to project, but who also exhibits an unusual flair and style in many of his concept paintings. He was done stage, prop, character and costume designs, and concept paintings and drawings for films like Charlie…

  • Xiaoye Chen

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    One of the wonderful thing about digital painting is that there is a certain freedom inherent in a medium in which your work exists primarily as magnetic domains indicating ones and zeros. Digital information can be stored, copied and manipulated in ways otherwise impossible. That wonderful “undo” feature and the ability so save out copies…