Professional Practise 1: Who's Who? What do they do and who do they work for?

Professional Practise 1

Study Task 9: Professional Practitioners

Concept Artists

1. Natasha Tan - http://www.natasha-tan.com/

• Natasha Tan is a concept artist, who works for Ubisoft, producing realistic concept art for a variety of games, such as Assassins Creed and Rise of the Tomb Raider. Her style captures mass of space and structures, whilst including colour concepts and shadow and light, within her paintings. She primarily works digitally and with environment paintings being her main outcomes in her portfolio.

2. Claire Hummel - https://www.clairehummel.com/

• Claire Hummel is currently an art director working for Valve, however she has worked in illustration, concept art and currently working on 'In the Valley of Gods'. Her work is consists of both stylised pieces and realism, in contrast to Natashas' work. She creates pieces ranging from stylised portraits and character designs to realistic environments and landscapes.

3. Shaddy Safadi - http://www.shaddyconceptart.com/

• Shaddy Safadi is a digital game artist, who worked on games such as Uncharted 2 and now currently works as a freelance artist. He creates both stylised and realisitc concept art, such as the realistic style used for The Last of Us and in his portfolio is work features more stylised pieces for other projects. A lot of his paintings are done "Digital Plein Air" thus painting from life, outdoors, but on a digital tablet, in order to capture the realism and depth in his work.

Background Artist

1. Gina Garavalia

• Gina Garavalia is an illustrator, concept artist and designer who graduated in 2016 with a BFA in Art and Design. Her work consists of both realistic and stylised background art and she demonstrates imagination and wonder in this. She also enjoys fantasy paintings and works in freelance at the moment.

2D and 3D Animators

1. Trent Correy - http://trentanimation.blogspot.com/

• Trent Correy is a 2D and 3D Character Animator currently working at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He worked on character animation in Moana, Zootopia, Big Hero 6 and Frozen. In an Instagram post, he admitted he'd only been using CG Animation software for a year, whilst working on Frozen and eventually he was able to master the tools. He is based in LA, California and is currently working on Frozen 2. Due to his work in both CG and 2D Animation, I chose to add him to the list of practitioners.

2. Aaron Blaise

• As a feature film director, concept artist, character designer and animator, I chose to also add Aaron Blaise to the list, because of the variety of roles he has worked within and his experience in the industry of animation. He has worked as an animator in films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. He draws and animates primarily animals and his work recently consists of tutorials and help videos for aspiring artists and animators.