Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Concept Artists

Artist 1: Katsuya Terada
Katsuya Terada is a concept artist and is famous for his work with drawing the Legend Of Zelda Concept Art, he also has made other work with comics including the Iron Man and Hellboy comics. He also contributed a lot of work to the Nintendo Power magazines, including special edition strategy guides which feature a lot of his work.

Artist 2: Aleksi Briclot
Aleksi Briclot is a video game concept artist and illustrator who mainly creates art for RPG games  as well as some Tabletop games such as Mage and Vampire.

Artist 3: Joe Peterson
Joe Peterson is a video game concept artist who is currently working freelance. He has worked on many MMO titles including Diablo 3 and World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

Artist 4: Adam Adamowicz
Adam Adamowicz was a video game concept artist who is most known for his tenure at Bethesda. He worked on the concept art for many popular games including Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.


Artist 5: Dennis Chan
Dennis Chan is a video game concept artist who has worked on multiple games which focus on realistic graphics including Crysis 2, Crysis 3 and Ryse: Son of Rome.

Artist 6: Matt Allsop
Matt Allsop is a freelance concept artist who has worked in the film and video game industry and has worked on many popular titles including Fable 3, Godzilla, Edge Of Tomorrow and Killzone 2.


Thursday, 20 November 2014

Animators

Artist 1: Ladislas Starevich
Ladislas Starevich was a Russian stop motion animator who is famous for inventing the very first "stop-motion" movie The Beautiful Lukanida in 1912 which he created with puppets. He created multiple other stop-motion movies in which he liked to use small animals such as insects for his protagonists.


Artist 2: Tim Burton/Warner Bros. Animation
Tim Burton is a very successful stop motion movie animator who has created various famous stop motion animation films such as The Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Warner Bros. Animation worked with Tim Burton to help create his film by filming the actual animation parts by moving and changing the figures and taking an image of each frame.

Artist 3: DisneyDisney are a very famous multi-mass media corporation famous for their theme park attraction Disney Land as well as their very successful movies, including some stop motion animation movies. The first one they made was a short film called Noah's Ark which they made with the use of small puppets and released in 1959.

Artist 4: Henry Selick
Henry Selick is another famous movie director who has made a lot of movies involving stop motion animation including the very successful movie Coraline. He uses a very similar style of changing and posing hand made models and taking an image of each frame.

Artist 5: Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen was a highly acclaimed visual effects animator who created his own form of stop motion animation which he called "Dynamation". Some of his most famous work are his involvement in many films such as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash Of The Titans. His work went on to inspire many movie directors including John Lasseter and Tim Burton.

Artist 6: Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson is a film writer and screenwriter who has used stop motion animation in some of his films, mainly Fantastic Mr Fox. He uses very similar styles to Warner Bros. Animation and Henry Selick but used real life components into the film such as using real sand.

Monday, 3 November 2014

Clay & Plaster Artists

Artist 1: Kathy Pallie
Kathy Pallie originally grew up doing a career in commercial art, in which she made products that would be shown on retail windows and displays inside interiors of shops. Once she retired from that profession she then began experimenting with clay and now continues it to this day. She uses clay coils to create sculptural shapes.




Artist 2: Gary Scott
Gary Scott is a plaster artist who gave up his career he had at the time to embark on a diploma course at an Art Academy. His various sculptures has earned him much success including the Art Academy Mixed Media Sculpture Prize in 2013.




Artist 3: Clea Carlsen
Clea Carlsen is a ceramic sculptor who grew up going to a liberal art school in New York, and also spent one year of University in New Mexico. During her time in college she would go Italy every year for her summer holidays in which she would interact with Renaissance Art. Eventually she would get a BA in studio arts and then worked in designing theatre sets for 9 years before eventually starting working with clay.
Clea in her studio

Artist 4:Nicola Hicks
Nicola Hicks is a sculptor who's main prowess is in using plaster and straw for her sculpting. She started studying at the Chelsea School of Art in 1978 till 1982 and then studied at the Royal College Of Art from 1982 till 1985. She has achieved a lot of success, including being chosen for an exhibition of her work at Angela Flowers Gallery and having her sculptures presented at the Yale Centre for British Art.



Artist 5: Kathleen Dustin
Kathleen Dustin is a clay artist that is well known for her work worldwide. She grew up in western Michigan where she initially dreamed of becoming a jazz pianist whilst her mother wanted her to be an artist. She got a major in mathematics before eventually moving to Germany for her junior university year, where she got introduced to polymer clay products and has worked with clay ever since.
Corn Catch Fly Purse

Artist 6: George Segal
George Segal is a sculptor best known for his plaster cast life size figures. He was born in New York in the 1920s, he gained a degree in teaching and spent his life on a chicken farm with his wife. He designed his body casts by wrapping a model with bandages before removing the hardened forms them placing them back together whilst using more plaster to form a hollow shell. His wife continues his work in the George and Helen Segal Foundation.

Monday, 13 October 2014

Wire Frame Artists


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Owl Spirit by Elizabeth Berrien

Elizabeth Berrien experimented with Chicken Wire dragons and unicorns overnight for them to be used in festivals and boutiques as a way to provide income for her child. eventually her work became so popular she was able to make wire sculpture animals for a living.

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Chicken by Emma Stothard

Emma Stothard worked in Southampton doing fine art and became a fan of willow sculpture, she made tons of sculptures of smaller animals before eventually making larger animals. She now exhibits her work nationally and internationally.

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Michael Jackson by Ivan Lovatt

Ivan Lovatt worked on group exhibitions in the Guildhall Grantham and then moved to Australia. His main focus of work is on Reality of Sculpture.

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Horse by Laura Antebi

Laura Antebi works in Scotland and her main focus of work is using galvanised steel wire as well as recycled steel materials to make figurative, wildlife sculptures.









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Rabbit by Chris Moss

Chris Moss lives in North Yankshire and has a farm full of animals where he used them as inspiration for his work. He had a degree in Fine Art Painting and eventually moved to Wire Sculpture.

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Polar Bear by Kendra Haste

Kendra Haste graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1998 and was always interested in sculptures of animals. She joined the Society of Wildlife Artists as well as the Society of Wildlife Artists. She makes all her work via galvanised wire.

Monday, 15 September 2014

Task 6

Artist 1: Yoji Shinkawa

Yoji Shinkawa is the artist for the Metal Gear Solid video game series. Many of his inspirations for characters actually come from various animals, One example is the character Raging Raven from Metal Gear Solid 4. As the name suggests the character is based upon the design and appearance of a Raven, with many notable comparisons such as the wings and legs. Shinkawa took inspirations from many Japanese animated artists as well as many Western artists. His main style of drawing is via Ink Pens with brush style tips.




Artist 2:Nancy Ablett
Nancy Ablett graduated from art school and now works as a freelance artist, she assists in running an art gallery and also works as an art tutor. Her main method of painting birds is using Acrylic paint on drift wood and then uses yacht varnish to finish it off.
  Garden Birds Bird Art by Bird Artist Nandi Ablett


Artist 3: Lanre Buraimoh

Lanre Buraimoh is an Nigerian artist whose style of work is inspired from the beadwork he seen in West Africa. His paintings are usually made via the use of thousands of small beads.



Artist 4: Joan Hall Johnston


This is an dot painting of a Lizard created by the artist Joan Hall Johnston.  She grew up practicing but became a serious painter in 2002,  she uses black ink with a paper printing technique but also uses acrylic and waerpaints
Art: 1 Lizard Dreaming by Artist Joan Hall Johnston
Artist 5: Ergin İnan

Ergin İnan (born 1943) is a Turkish artist who worked as a faculty member of the Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts Department before becoming an artist, He is known for his variety of various art pieces of Insects. Most of his pieces involve or heavily use the design of printmaking in his work. Most of his drawings are seen from a top down view.






Artist 6: Christopher Marley

Christopher Marley became obsessed with insects at a young age after getting over his initial fear of them, He likes to use various bugs, butterflies, insects, shells and fossils to create a variety of art pieces.