Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Chesley Bonestell

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    As I get a little older, I’m increasingly impressed with the changes in the world that a person can see in the course of a single lifetime. I have always been amazed that my grandfather, who was born at a time when it was still a matter of debate whether heavier-than-air flight was even possible…

  • Matt Dixon

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    I first came across Matt Dixon’s work on the CGSociety site, where he has been a participant in several of their “Challenges“, contests in which computer graphics artists create works that are a response to a particular theme. The great thing about the Challenges is the the artists document their work at numerous stages during…

  • Chris Beatrice

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    Chris Beatrice worked his way from an illustrator for computer games to art director, creative director and then general manager for a computer gaming company. He moved on from there to found his own game company, Tilted Mill Entertainment, whose latest release is Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile. Beatrices’ formal art training was in…

  • Ed von Lee

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    Ed Lee draws cool ‘bots, wild characters, fantastic environments and nasty villains. He studied fine arts but his interest in such things led him to a career in commercial art (something I can identify with). He studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, but lives and works in Korea. Lee is a concept artist and…

  • Alex Jaeger

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    Alex Jaeger is a senior visual effects art director and concept designer for Industrial Light and Magic. He could easily have been a top automotive designer as well, judging by his sleekly rendered concept vehicle designs. As it is, he also gets to design spaceships, costumes, environments and all of the other cool stuff that…

  • Stephan Martiniere

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    Stephan Martiniere has done concept and production art for films like Star Wars, Episodes II and III, I, Robot, Red Planet, Dragonheart and others. He has also done concept design for theme parks and animation as well as doing book and magazine illustration. During his three year stint at CYAN he was visual design director…