BRETT BEAN

Brett Bean
"Grew up in and around Seattle Washington where I only had enough money to go to a local 3D animation school and not a major art school in California like I desperately wanted to at the time. I made the most of the experience and got work as a 3D environment artist. After working at Sony for years I asked if I could break up my time between visual development and 3D work. They said no, they didn’t want to lose me as a 3D asset. I always wanted to be a character designer so I told them I had to quit. They actually thought I was bluffing and offered me a lot of money to stay, way more than I’d ever seen. It was the scariest/best decision ever that, after only 2 months of marriage, my wife and I packed up and moved to California so I could take art classes at Gnomon school of visual FX. With no real money I had to work at a GameStop selling my own games I had just made to people and intern at the school. I started the entire process over again and this time I did it ON PURPOSE. But out of all things to prepare me for my career and subsequent choices, that moment was the most influential. Hard work and diligence will pay off for me. Follow the passion and the dream." 

STEVIE RAY

Stevie Ray

"I was born in Palmdale, California. Growing up, I enjoyed watching my share of Bugs Bunny cartoons, Disney movies, and let’s not forget … Sailor Moon! I got my start in art through my fascination with Japanese animation. That was when I really started to draw and experiment with Photoshop and online paint programs. But I realized that people in the animation industry weren’t supportive of anime. So, I decided to change my approach and channel my passion toward animation."

JULIA SARDA

Julia Sarda

"Julia Sarda is an illustrator, concept artist and character designer based in Barcelona.

She has a wonderful, lively style, a superb sense of color and a great feeling for visual drama. She also demonstrates a masterful command of dark and light in her compositions. She also plays with theatrical spotlight effects and uplighting to great effect.

I particularly admire the way she can combine crisp flat edged planes of color with more rendered and textural elements within the same image and make is feel like a seamless whole."

GUILLAUME FESQUET

Guillaume Fesquet 

Visual Development artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios

ARMAND BALTAZAR

Armand Baltazar

MR TECKEL

Aurelien Predal
"freelance artist and visual development"

VICTORIA YING

Victoria Ying
"I'm a visual development artist, currently employed at Disney Feature Animation."

ABE ONG

Abe Ong
"Visual Development | Concept Design
714.209.2903
abe.ong(at)gmail.com
www.abeong.com"

JIM SHLENKER

Jim Shlenker
"Visual development and background design for both traditional and CG animated
television, direct-to-video projects, and animated feature film"

JOHN MAHONEY

John Mahoney
"Studied at Pratt Institute as an Illustration major. After graduation I decided I wanted to get into film making... got involved with Disney and so far I’ve worked on ten Disney films as an animation designer . I've worked on several other live action and theater design projects. Taiwan was my latest adventure, I just got back from there doing Visual Development on a CG feature... I have written and directed several award winning short films. I also teach film design and sculpture at Cal Arts and Gnomon. Additional studies include: Transportation Design - Art Center - Sculpture Design - Jordu Schell Studios - Production Design - UCLA - Film Grammer - NYU My illustration work has been showcased in the book Spectrum "The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art" 2006 and also in the book Erotic Signature: "The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today" 2008... I recently taught Concept Sculpture, Creative Figure Drawing, Film Design, and Creative Writing, in an intensive 2 month program at Lucasfilm Singapore. I had an opportunity to meet George Lucas and he was very excited about the project. I hope to continue to work with Lucasfilm in the near future."

OLIVIER TOSSAN

Olivier Tossan
"Oliver Tossan spent the first 37 years of his life in Paris.Drawing was the first means of escape that he found. He started at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in 1981 and received his degree in Scene Design in 1984. He worked as a scene designer and graphic artist in the field of architecture, exhibitions,trade fair design..scene design of W.Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale.
He draws and paints. In 1995 he began to work in 3d, collection objects relatin to Goethe's poem The Erl King. At that time he gave up architecture and began to draw professionally for the press and publishing houses.
He left Paris and established himself in Berliin in March 1998."

ED LI

Ed Li
"Experience
- Disney Animation Studios
The Princess and the Frog
& future projects - as Visual Development
- DreamWorks Animation
Flushed Away
Shark Tale
Sinbad
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Road to El Dorado - as Visual development, character, layout, & background artist
- Activision & Neversoft Games
GUN & GUN II for the xbox360
Tony Hawk's Project 8 for the ps3 - as Lead concept artist"

ANTONIN HERVEET

Antonin Herveet
2D /3D animation Visual development Character design

NATHAN FOWKES

Nathan Fowkes

"I use a water bin, an old listerine bottle to carry water in, masking tape, Winsor and Newton watercolors, white gouache, brushes (mostly Princeton and Robert Simmons white sable Flats), sketchbooks and a small hiking pack they all fit in. The sketchbooks are heavy weight, acid free craft paper made by Canson"

JOHN WATKISS

John Watkiss
"John Watkiss has created visual development art for films like Disney’s Tarzan, Treasure Planet, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Fantasia 2000, Skycaptain and the World of Tomorrow and the proposed Sandman. In his movie related career he has done work for Twentieth Century Fox, Dreamworks, Francis Ford Coppola and Ridley Scott Associates.

Watkiss has also had a career as a comic book artist, doing covers and interiors for D.C., Marvel and UK publishers on titles like Batman, Conan, Deadman and Sandman.

If that isn’t enough, Watkiss also is a gallery artist. His subjects are frequently images of women painted in a modern style but in costume and compositions influenced by Victorian painting."

SEAN PIN HO

This man workworkwork!

ZELJKO DUVNIJAK

Great concept Zeljko!

BARRY REYNOLDS

Great design Barry!!

XIANGYUAN JIE

uoh.amazing Xiangyuan!

NATHAN FOWKES

Oh Nathan!!