SydMead - Visual Futurist

Sydney Jay Mead, commonly known as SydMead (born July 18, 1933), is a "visual futurist" and concept artist. He is best known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Of his work, Mead was once moved to comment: "I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule.

http://www.sydmead.com/

Frank Frazetta - Fantasy Illustrator

Frank Frazetta (February 9, 1928 – May 10, 2010) was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media. He was the subject of a 2003 documentary.

Frazetta was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1999.

http://frankfrazetta.net/

Boris Vallejo - Fantasy Illustrator

Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941) is a Peruvian painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model.

Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantasy and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have graced the covers of dozens of science fiction paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling glossy calendars. Subjects of his paintings are typically Sword and sorcery gods, monsters, and well-muscled male and female barbarians engaged in battle. Some of his male figures were modeled by Vallejo himself, and many of his later female characters were modeled by his wife. His latest works still retain heavy fantasy elements, but lean more towards the erotic rather than pure fantasy themes.

https://www.imaginistix.com/

Luis Royo - Fantasy Illustrator

Luis Royo is a Spanish artist born in Olalla, a village in the Aragonese province of Teruel. He is best known for his fantasy illustrations published in numerous art books, magazines such as Heavy Metal and various other media including book and music CD covers, video games and Tarot cards.

http://www.luisroyo.com/

Hajime Sorayama - Illustrator

Hajime Sorayama is known world-wide for his imaginative and highly accomplished paintings of beautiful women. Using brush, pencil and acrylic paint, airbrushing only finishing details, he creates memorable images in a hyper-realistic style. He is often referred to as the contemporary Vargas by those familiar with his pin-up style works, and is respected by artists and illustrators for his perfect technique.

In retrospect, Sorayama's work has been remarkably prescient. Beginning in the 1970's and evolving into the 21st century, the futuristic aura of the robotic, mythic and fantastical figures in his art have always been ahead of their time.

http://www.hajimesorayama.com/

Alberto Seveso - Plastic Artist

It is an Italian artist who takes photographs of perfectly detailed ink and dissolve in water. His work has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Popular Science, and Natural Geographic.

He was born in Milan – ITALY the 30th of May 1976. He was approached, for the first time, to the world art at the beginning of 1990s.

The passion for graphic arts started in these years because he was really fascinated from the graphic of skate decks and the cover of music CD of metal bands. From this passion he started to think about how reproduce this kind of artwork. He always had a computer at his home, from the times of the Commodore Vic20, and he kept thinking that his computer could be useful in this way. Meaning that he can use the computer to make art and not only to play!

Now he works as a freelance in Bristol – UK my hometown, Portoscuso, Sardinia-Italy for small, medium and big agencies.

http://burdu976.com/

Cristiano Siqueira - Illustrator and Vector Artist

He is a Brazilian illustrator and vector artist who will surely impress any on of you with his incredible talent and with his work that’s simply magical. 

He started his career as graphic designer, working in projects for books, CD covers, magazines and posters. Some years later, he started to work on packaging design, for toys and food industry.
With 6 years professional experience in the graphic design industry, he was able to understand, improve and contribute to more projects where my illustration work is required.

http://www.crisvector.com

Alexander Fedosov - Illustrator & Digital Artist

He is an illustrator and digital artist who comes from Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine. With a particular style and limited work to a small number of creations, but we assume and hope that in the near future will be increased, Alexander shows a large technical quality that focus especially in an exquisite eye for detail knows how to capture in his compositions.

http://www.behance.net/holllllow

Kevin Hulsey - Illustrator

Kevin Hulsey Illustration, Inc. has specialized in automotive illustration and product technical illustration for over 31 years, and our artwork has been used in advertising, marketing, promotional materials and collateral print media for a wide variety of business sectors, primarily focusing on cutaway automotive and industrial technical illustration. 

In addition, we have a substantial library of technical and automotive stock-images available for license, including technical illustrations of cut away automobiles, car exterior automotive illustrations, engine and transmission cutaways, and other vehicle or machinery-related product technical images. Our company also creates and licenses car photography for use in advertising and marketing.

http://www.automotiveillustrations.com

David Vineïs - Digital Artist and Designer

Sub88 is a french digital artist and designer. Very inspired by electronic music, he started to create some abstract and organic digital artworks in 2000. Some music labels chosen him for art director. He has found his influences in modern architecture and contemporary art. A large part of his art vision is mixing elements, forms and structures. Dreaming and thinking are the base of his creations. He builds atmospheres whit his vision of an Oniric future.

http://www.sub88.com/

Fredrik Ödman - Photographer and Digital Artist

He is a photographer born in Ängelholm, Sweden. His early artistic inclinations are drawing and painting, until about 10 years ago he discovered the world of photography and Photoshop, and got absorbed completely in it. He speaks English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, but his main pictorial language is language that, through his creations, as he describes a world sometimes dark, sometimes funny and sometimes frightening. His work is perfectly executed, fantasy and symbolism surrounding by it, whose provocative dose definitely attract the viewer.

http://fredrikodman.com/

Welcome All

Welcome to all of you guys, 

Today we started a new blog for our group "ANIMAGRAPHICTEAM", helping to promote the design thinking, sharing, and references for the works we do in-class as well outside our classroom. As a form of teaching, and learning I was requested to make this site fully in English, helping you guys to emerge in the boundless worlds of animations, art, design, composing, special effects and artists in general. 

This is a space for you to share, grow and post anything you will find interesting over the next and following semesters, as for now I will start by placing some small rules of use, so we all know what to post and what to not, keep in mind this is free space for sharing and learning.

          RULES:

• Not content related to program or categories below will be accepted, if so post will be banned or removed (Pornography, Insults, Defamation of Names, Political, Religious).
• Every post MUST BE in ENGLISH, if you are not comfortable with the language (Make sure to use of Google Translate or any medium if necessary), remember we are here to share and learn.
• Not bad language, bullying or any sort type of defamation will be tolerated, post will be removed and account perhaps banned.

Having said this, hope you guys enjoy and share this small site, will update the new content soon with references, and things seen in class.

Have a great semester.

André Martinez