Suggestions - Who do you want featured?

[Gangstashers]

thx ^^

I realy realy realy wanna meet somone form advent children not just me but alooot of ppl.

Advent children is realy a sick thing at the moment....


Sheherryar

[marciowski]

Pierre Coffin

Fausto de Martini

Doug Sweetland

Carlos Saldanha

Robert Rodrigues

Ronaldinho Gaucho

[maxspider3000]

Khaled Muharraqi
http://www.muharraqi-studios.com/
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Manar Tawam
http://www.manar-tawam.com/
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Yamen El-Khatib
http://www.3dyk.com/

[El Toro]

Iain McCaig would be great. :)

[Xillion]

Iain McCaig would be great. :)

I agree absolutely agree.
Hi site is http://www.iainmccaig.com/
I like the way he teaches, and he also seems to be a funny guy.
I'd love to study with him.
It would be great if I somehow could talk to him.

[FabioMSilva]

Pierre Coffin


Ronaldinho Gaucho

rofl

add José Mourinho to the list

[witchking]

Dylan Cole :)

[Jokinen]

I think James Clyne would be nice to get featured :) he is the co-owner of Gammaray Studios and works with Feng Zhu. But I guess yu already knew that

-JJ

[Bob_CA]

In my opinion Habib Zangapour, Krisnamurti Martins Costa "Antropus" (www.antropus.com (http://www.antropus.com)) and Frank Vitale (www.vitalef.com (http://www.vitalef.com))

[Turboff]

I think that Todd Lockwood is a good candidate. He's a former artist of Wizards of the Coast (the creators of Dungoens and Dragons), and now he works as a freelance artist doing things such as book covers (he makes the cover art for most of R.A. Salvatore's new books). He now does most of his work digitally, so I think he has a lot to offer to the community.


His website is www.toddlockwood.com (http://www.toddlockwood.com)

[coCoKNIght]

That guy should start to post his works here, and having him featured here could do the trick :)
I really admire how he could do battle angel alita all on his own. awesome images, entertaining story and yet very philosophical, critical. great cover art, sometimes even 3d...
I'd like to know more 'bout him.

[alancamara]

My favorities are:
krishnamurti Antropus Costa
Fausto Di Martini
Francisco Cortina

[igorsandman]

Having Craig Mullins would be awesome :)
Cheers.
-IS-

[rblitz7]

Oh definatly Krisnamurti Martins Costa!!:bounce:

[marque-pierre]

Craig Mullins is the MAN!

[Djeldoran]

I'd like to see some japanese artists, I don't hear alot from them here.

[japovision]

Akira Orikasa!!!

http://home.comcast.net/%7Eaorikasa/index.html

He is fuking great!!!

Far the best I´ve seen....

[Jackdeth]

"Japovision?"

That's a little offensive, isn't it?

[neofg]

Is Dennis Muren full of work to partecipate? :)
http://starwarrior.theforce.ru/films/crew/muren.jpg

Francisco Cortina is a nice alternative...:wise:

[DragonTea]

Christophe Vacher! http://www.vacher.com/

[pushav]

Any 2d artist.
2d artists:thumbsup: *Nudge*

[Headless]

There seems to be alot of film animators and artists on Meet the Artists so it'd be nice to see some more representation from games. I know there was one with Mayan Escalante which was great, and I think I remember an EA concept artist doing one (sorry, I forget the name), but it'd be nice to see some more game stuff. Here's some ideas...

Victor Antonov (http://www.vulkanbros.com/webpage.swf) - Art director and concept artist at Valve.
Justin Thavirat (http://www.jessecollier.com/Friends/Archived%20Sites/Justin%27s%20Portfolio/) - Lead Artist at Blizzard.
Samwise Didier (http://sonsofthestorm.com/gallery_samwise.html#header) - Famed Blizzard Concept Artist.
Fumito Ueda (http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,54313/) - Project Director and Lead Artist/Animator on ICO and Shadow of the Colossus at Sony (not sure if he speaks English though).
Alex Drouin (http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,115124/) - Animation Lead on Prince of Persia series at UBISoft Montreal.

[Foxxy Lady]

Martin L'Heureux would be awesome. He's been in the industry for over 13 years. He worked for ILM as a supervising animator and now he's working in Vancouver, Canada. He has accumulated over 20 credits for commercials, feature films, television and video games. He owns two companies right now. One of his companies has just released a whole bunch of motion reference dvds for animators. The site for that is at www.pom.tv (http://www.pom.tv) and there is also a link there to learn more about him http://www.pom.tv/founder.html

He was teaching at the Art Institute of Vancouver. Now he visits different schools and companies doing seminars around Vancouver. He is credited for Phantom Menace, Men In Black 2, he's done pepsi and pillsbury commercials. It's awesome. He's been awarded a Clio award, an AICP/Moma Award and an Anicomm Award.

++Tamara++

[TinToy21]

Jeremy Cantor

http://www.zayatz.com/

[Zag]

Allan Mckay
http://www.allanmckay.com/

Pete Draper
http://www.xenomorphic.co.uk/index.htm

Brandon Davis
http://www.particlefx.com/index.html

[CreativeDesign]

Iain McCaig
Ryan Church
Scott Robertson
(Even if I repeat any entry which has already been made by other posters) .
I think all of them have good qualities in different fields of work.

McCyig is a brilliant "Story Artist" as well as with "Pen and Paper".
Church has a amazing style and his understanding of mood and composition is awsome.
Robertson is one of the best designers (look at the DVD's and you know what I mean) and I think he can simplify difficult subjects like perspective. (again see the DVD's :) )
Ok I would appreciate it if one of them can be won for a FAQ here.

[MSun]

yeah, i wanna meant Ryan Church too

[sunstudio]

the 2d artist.
http://www.3dm3.com/features/32/angelkiss_big.jpg
website:
http://www.jasonchanart.com/ (http://www.jasonchanart.com/)
Jason Chan in 3dm3.com
http://www.3dm3.com/forum/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=32 (http://www.3dm3.com/forum/articles.php?action=viewarticle&artid=32)

PROFILE:

Name: Jason Chan
AKA: Chan, Evil Gerbil King
DOB: 09.24.83
SEX: Male

LOCATION: California, USA
OCCUPATION: Student, Illustrator
EDUCATION: Currently studyding at the Academy of Art in San Francisco

OS: Windows XP

PROGRAMS: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter.


HOBBIES: Art (surprise), Video/Computer Games, Movies, Anime, Manga, Sci-fi/fantasy novels, eating, sleeping.

FAVORITE ARTISTS: Too many... Juno Jeong (Lineage), Hioroaki Samura (Blade of the Immortal), Yoji Shinkawa (Metal Gear Solid), Akihiko Yoshida (Final Fantasy Tactics, FFXII, Vagrant Story), Range Murata, Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Brom, Gil Elvgren...

FAVORITE MOVIES: Lord of the Rings, Kill Bill, Battle Royale, American Beauty, Terminator 2, Aliens, Saving Private Ryan, Figth Club, Gladiator, Matrix 1.

FAVORITE BOOKS: Lord of the Rings, Heroes Die, various Shadowrun book, R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books.


Hi everyone,

We need your feedback on who you want featured on this Q&A Forum!

When suggesting artists, please post any relevant information about them, such as their website, and why you think they should be featured here!

Thanks!

Leonard

[jramauri]

I didn't read all early posts, but who I'd like to see here Hayao Miyazaki, from japanese Studio Ghibli. He's one of most respected directors/writers of animation movies today, and has a long list of impressive and incredibly well made animations features, like Spirited Away (Oscar Winner), Howl's Moving Castle (that much problably will be indicated to Oscar too), Princess Mononoke and many others. He has a wonderful background, and problably many diferent points of view about animation, since Studio Ghibli is one of last studios in world to resist of 3D advent, and is mostly dedicated to produce fine art movies. It would be interesting to know his thoughts. Or from some other important member from Studio Ghibli.

Studio Ghibli oficial website: www.ntv.co.jp/ghibli/ (http://www.ntv.co.jp/ghibli/)
Studio Ghibli Unnoficial Website: www.nausicaa.net (http://www.nausicaa.net/)

[Lunatique]

Not to rain on anyone's parade or anything, but you guys should keep it real. Naming world-famous directors like Miyazaki or Tim Burton is just too much wishful thinking. I'd be shocked out of my underwear if cgtalk could secure a Q&A session with creative minds of that caliber.

[eek]

name:craig mullins
Job:concept artist
site:www.goodbrush.com (http://www.goodbrush.com)
Media:digital and traditional media

eek

[paperclip]

Not to rain on anyone's parade or anything, but you guys should keep it real. Naming world-famous directors like Miyazaki or Tim Burton is just too much wishful thinking. I'd be shocked out of my underwear if cgtalk could secure a Q&A session with creative minds of that caliber.


I suppose that's what happens when you have people with wild imaginations around...

[jrdollesin]

admin a lot of portfolios and talents are flying in this thread, please do not erase this thread i stored this in my library!

can you? thanks in advance! :)

[jramauri]

Not to rain on anyone's parade or anything, but you guys should keep it real. Naming world-famous directors like Miyazaki or Tim Burton is just too much wishful thinking. I'd be shocked out of my underwear if cgtalk could secure a Q&A session with creative minds of that caliber.

CGTalk is a big and very respected forum with a large amount of professional and important people as members. Guys like Meats Meyer, Zac Petrok, Carlos Baena and Linda Bergkist are world-famous artists, and they passed by here. Are you underestimating the forum? I see no reason to think a important director couldn't decide share with us a little bit of their experience. And after all we are just making suggestions, this is not something that deserves crits. (In my opinion, at least)

[SpaceTik]

I agree with jramauri, after all they are just people like us who happened to be doing their ultimate dream job.

So.. there.

now ill go back and read this post :)

[Fantom]

Marta "BlacKeri" Dahlig <3 -> http://blackeri.deviantart.com
soon www.blackeri.com ;)

[Bluder]

Hi, we allready had concept and animators, how about a different field? how about rigging?

[MikeRhone]

How about Ami?

http://www.39poundsoflove.com

I would love to get the opportunity to ask him a few questions!

[Maximus3D]

I was just about to suggest Ami too, he really deserves to be featured as a artist here.

/ Max

[cserbuj]

I would suggest.....two great artist.

Dylan Cole
www.dylancolestudio.com (http://www.dylancolestudio.com)

Dusso
www.dusso.com (http://www.dusso.com)

The reason, because they are two of the best mattepainters, and many people loves their work. It would be one chance to learn more about theese techniques.

[Siahpoosh]

yeah... just Ami

[Interceptor]

Ally Fell - http://www.darkrising.co.uk

[Ramtin]

Oh my god .It`s a hard choosing .animators and animators .But one of "Blue sky" animators .I think , that is coool .

[Blackout]

I would love to see Bobby "Boom" Beck one of the lead animators for pixar featured as he is one of my absaloute favorite animators though I am not sure if he has already been featured or not as there is an incredible amount of things going on here. His website: htp://www.bobbyboombeck.com/

[marciowski]

Hi, we allready had concept and animators, how about a different field? how about rigging?

Good point.
I agree with You.

But who?

[gunslingerblack]

meet the artists, im thinkin on a much grander scale here but...

brad bird

comes from a traditional animation background, and made to to filmmaker status

i think some great advice could come out of him.

[Bluder]

Good point.
I agree with You.

But who?


hehe, no idea but rigging might not be such a great idea anyway. i think rigging will be way to technical so the artist will have to write complex and long answers. he might take his life sometimes during those weeks. but if someone is up to it, it sounds good to me.

[RaresH]

Craig Mullins (for his beautiful use of light and versatile use of brush strokes. He is also very adept at machines and people)
Ian McCaig (for his exquisite renderings of the female form and face as well as excellent storytelling)

[proconpictures]

oy everyone!
some time ago a young french artist invited members of cgtalk to take a look at his work. he has been asked over and over to produce a tutorial or explain his working process but sadly he could never find the time to do so.
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=164118
he has been featured in stash magazine #14 and his annecy contribution is well known amongst independent animators as well.

therefor i would like to ask you to give hervé trouillet aka. jubeii the chance to reach even more people and finally find the time to help those who wish so.

maybe flash, photoshop, combustion and after effects are not the most popular softwares in here but adapting good working habits and getting to know how you can produce 1min/month on your own can definitely be helpful to anyone.

thank you. m

[ZeroNeuro]

I think that an interview with Jeremy Engleman would be great. This guy has been an influence for me ever since I saw his work in the game Riven: The Sequel to Myst. Not only is he a wonderful artist, but he is also a very nice guy who has been helping the community and teaching others through his dvd series for Gnomon. He has an excellent texture collection, and wears really cool sunglasses ;)

Personally I feel that he has never really received the praise that he deserves.

Cheers,
Ritchie L. Roberts
Lighter
Omation Animation Studios

P.S: Also, I donno if he would do an interview being as humble a guy as he is, but Peter Sumanaseni at Pixar is also awesome ;)

[Artbot]

This is a request for a structure change to the "Meet the Artist" forum. It's a nice idea and all of the artists participating have been top-notch. What's agonizing is the amount of "Your (sic) awesome" or "I'll never be as good as you" posts. These are okay in and of themselves, but they reach a point of ridiculousness when there's 15 pages of them.

It would be a lot more enlightening to have people post their questions up to some pre-determined cut-off time, then let the artist pick the questions they want to answer. It would help keep the artists' responses interesting and people still get to ask questions, but it would save the artist from having to acknowledge every single "Great work, man!" post. It would also let the artist spend more of their valuable time answering more interesting or relevant questions.

[kevline]

craig mullins (becauce he have a very good brush stroke and he is the best in digital art ^^)

[modjtab]

I think an interview with DUSSO can be good to.
I like to know if some of his matte paintings are 2.5D or 3D and if himself made them 3dlized!
and if he make CG Elements for his works and if he do these what pakage he use to and some
tricks about his workflow!

and interview with Jeremy is a good Idea to!

[Nazirull]

ME!! :bounce:

Kidding guys...im just bored.:scream:

[maroscar]

Hyung-tae kim. http://marzana.nu/nitty/


i also think that hyung-tae kim would be great.
this is the right forum for him.
a lot of people on here would have many questions to ask him.

please feature hyung-tae kim

[Nazirull]

i also think that hyung-tae kim would be great.
this is the right forum for him.
a lot of people on here would have many questions to ask him.

please feature hyung-tae kim

I agree....questions about how he did in with Brazil....

[phantomworkshop]

Hey Guys, am still pretty new here but I think some great additions to the Meet The Artists would be Michael Mckinley and Dan Ablan. They have helped me with their books, and I've spoken to each of them over the last month or so, and they've been great in responding to my specific inquiries. They're both established artists:

Michael Mckinley: Established Artist at Gizmondo Studios in TX, Author of best selling, The Game Artist's Guide To Maya and his up and coming book on Animation in the gaming industry. He's also well known in the SimplyMaya community for his DVD Training and no stranger to our very own, CGTalk Community.

Dan Ablan: What can we say about this guy? He's the guy who 'wrote the book' on Lightwave. Continuing his famous series of Inside Lightwave with his newest, Inside Lightwave 9, and The Official Guide To Luxology Modo. He also has been running his own company, AGA Digital Studios, Inc. for over 11 years now, with such clients as NASA, United Airlines, Allstate Insurance and many more. And, let's not forget his Training DVDs from 3DGarage, recommended by Newtek themselves.

I'll add more suggestions later on, but now it's time to celebrate the New Year with my loved ones, take care everyone. Happy New Year!

[proconpictures]

I agree....questions about how he did in with Brazil....



wow! yes!
i would luv' 2C hyung tae kim here!


check out http://hyung-taekim.org/index.php

[plugsnpixels]

Mark "Crash" McCreery

H. R. Giger


Joey Orosco

Paul Mejias

Miles Teves

Peter H. König


Glen Mcintosh

John Zdankiewicz


Dylan Cole


Bay Raitt

Paul Mejias' website is:

http://paulmejias.heyyoukids.com/index.shtml

[pisano]

HOw about the site CGtalk administrators theselves? I'm sure their background of such a community will surley aid in making it a fruifull interview. What say you?

[jjcoolio]

Jeff Unay - Weta Digital 3d modeler
Syd Mead

[waydorr]

wow! yes!
i would luv' 2C hyung tae kim here!


check out http://hyung-taekim.org/index.php



mee too like to see him feature, though i don't know him but spaking of something on brazil, it make me curious

[proconpictures]

mee too like to see him feature, though i don't know him but spaking of something on brazil, it make me curious

yes! yes! see!!!
even people in africa would like to have him featured here.

[hilbruks]

Hyung Tae Kim and Gez Fry.
These guys have such incredibly cool styles. I would really really like for them to be featured here.

[eek]

Richard Yuricich

The guy who made the mattes for 2001: a space odessey and blade runner,and is now a visual effect supervisor.

eek

[M.E.L.]

hehe, no idea but rigging might not be such a great idea anyway. i think rigging will be way to technical so the artist will have to write complex and long answers. he might take his life sometimes during those weeks. but if someone is up to it, it sounds good to me.

rigging's not that indepth technical wise really, not like our answers would fill an entire dictionary or something ;)

however if people are interested I'd like to throw out a few names of some friends and people who I think would have lots to offer aspiring riggers:

paul thuriot - assoc cg supervisor @ EA (previously Hellboy et al)
erick miller - technical director @ Sony Imageworks (too many films to list heh)
jason schleifer - animator @ PDI (i know he was featured as an animator but he is an awesome TD as well)
matt leishman - character td @ rhythm & hues (did setup work on Narnia, really cool guy)
judd simantov - character td @ naughty dog (creator of cgmuscle.com)
Raffaele Fragapane - technical director @ rising sun pictures (he's just a machine... can't really say much else to describe him)


all these guys have an insane amount of knowledge to bring to the table and share from the TD realm of things.


-s

[SergioSantos]

Pascal Blanche

Francisco A. Cortina

...

Some guy from videogame development... I don't know who.

[alancamara]

Pascal Blanche

Francisco A. Cortina

...

Some guy from videogame development... I don't know who.

Totally agree! :bounce:

and
Steven Geisler

[proconpictures]

Hyung Tae Kim and Gez Fry.
These guys have such incredibly cool styles. I would really really like for them to be featured here.

i'm still for Hyung Tae Kim
but i just thought of some':

he doesn't know any english! (i believe)
at least in his interviews ne never speaks eng.
it's always translations of korean...

[rawwad]

George Lucas But I think it is not very possible
He is not actually artist but his work is some kind of art :)

Rob Coleman

Iain McCaig

Ryan Church - most his

James Clyne - and his

DUSSO

Herald Belker

and also Carlos Huante

[rawwad]

Oh I forgotten, Stephan MARTINIÈRE will be great :D He is maybe artist no.1 for me. I love his work at first time, because there is sometning different, his works are full by unique atmosphere. Colors, feelings, design , everything is original and fantastic :)

Yes, he! :bounce:

[Shadow_545]

I'm not sure if anyone else has already siad this, but it'd be awsome if you got someone from Weta Digital. A few previous ones have worked there before, but a company interview (maybe like blur studio did) would be awsome. May be hard/impossible, but I just wanted to throw my wish list out there.

[Kansai]

JOSE MANUEL OLI not sure if his name has been posted here before but his work is awesome, would love to hear this guy share some of his digital techniques check his site @ http://www.nibbledpencil.com/index.php thanx.

[seema]

i would love to see Vanitha Rangaraaju who was the lighting TD for Shrek 1 being feartured. She has been a major part of the movie and the oscar. Would love to get some insights from her!!

[proconpictures]

has anyone mentioned hyung-tae kim yet?

[spikkel]

Cameron Miyasaki, animator, PIXAR
http://www.cameronmiyasaki.com/

I second that! Love the animation of the balls jumping over the fence. Brilliant!

[Dutchman]

I'd really love to have Todd Vaziri (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891445/) featured. He is such a brilliant compositor, who still really loves Adobe After Effects (unless lots of 'other professionals' say that AE is only a kidtoy ;) ). Besides that he is very good and that he has very interesting methods, he seems to be very nice/gentle too (in the video about Van Helsing compositing that was features a year ago, or so). :)

That's my 2 cents!

[MichaelZHsee]

david levy(vyle)-VyleArt (http://vyle-art.com/gallery/index.php)

nicolas ferrand(viag)-Redwhirlpool (http://www.redwhirlpool.com/index2.php?m=about)

both amazing conceptual artists from ubisoft,would be great to have them here:)

[FloydBishop]

How about featuring some of the winners of challenges? I think that would be benificial to the community, and give both the chance for the community to ask questions and the winners to take a public bow.

[mental]

hey, why don't we do Colin Strause again?

[organica]

How about featuring some of the winners of challenges? I think that would be benificial to the community, and give both the chance for the community to ask questions and the winners to take a public bow.

Didn't you just win one of the challenges? :thumbsup: I would gladly reccommend Floyd Bishop for the next meet the artist. At least he would answer our questions....

[DakDarie]

Hi everyone,

We need your feedback on who you want featured on this Q&A Forum!

When suggesting artists, please post any relevant information about them, such as their website, and why you think they should be featured here!

Thanks!

Leonard
As to me - it's much enough of what already has :D

[Spiffjackson]

I would really like to see Adam Jones (Tool's Guitar player). He is an incredible artist and I think he has done some work for ILM as well.

[[MM]]

I want Richard Dumont.

( Known as Kraull in this forum )

Rich and expert hand while his style is stunning and fresh
wich provides in some works an impressive, stylish and virtousistic fusion of sci-fi and antiquity.

GSO piece - http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/grandspaceopera/entry.php?challenger=5066

homepage - www.fewlines.com (http://www.fewlines.com)

[fenko]

Dylan Cole, one of my major inspiration!

[mackabiemoss]

-LOICZIMMERMAN-

[josecarlospoeiras]

Kevin Mannens,
I think his kind of cool man, an expert in MEL, I would like to see him here in Q&A.
"Gnomon Workshop" edit 3 DVD titles about MEL, with him has instructor and it would be interesting to heard a word from Kevin.

Here is a short description of his bio, from "Gnomon" web page:

" Kevin Mannens, a Belgian native, originally pursued an academic career at the University of Leuven, where he received his MA in philosophy. ...worked three years at the Alias|Wavefront (AW) European Support Centre as an application engineer. Traveling around Europe, Kevin worked with and trained AW clients such as Moving Picture Company, Double Negative, CFC, Cinesite and many more. Wanting a warmer climate and new professional challenges, Kevin moved to Manila, in the Philippines, for a job as Technical Director at ImagineAsia. ...He is currently Technical Director at The Mill in London. "

[Nazirull]

Dylan Cole, one of my major inspiration!

Yeah baby....:)

[stavrevstefan]

I would like to hear from the "CREATOR OF Golum" In Lord of the rings?

I don't know the guy's name , but i am sure u people know him...

[digones]

Craig Mullins for sure!

[stavrevstefan]

Craig Mullins is the guy?

Well people please invite him for a nice interview....

[Dennik]

Why not Sormann (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?userid=2664). The guy is a genious. :)

[lotaH]

after the article published here, I would like to do questions for JOS STAM

[]'

[embodiedform]

I would like to hear from the "CREATOR OF Golum" In Lord of the rings?

I don't know the guy's name , but i am sure u people know him...


Yeah Bay Raitt- that would be fantastic!


I would love to see Chris Landreth on here-

[Chris Bacon]

Geoff Campbell..I know the chaces are small...but WOW....

[paperclip]

I vote for Simon Dominic Brewer. (BaronImpossible).

[witchking]

Ryan Church (http://www.ryanchurch.com)

[mali22]

Pete Draper - www.xenomorphic.co.uk (http://www.xenomorphic.co.uk/)

Allan McKay - www.allanmckay.com (http://www.allanmckay.com/)

[Alpha-Leader]

I second Pete Draper he has some really nice work.

[HOP]

Well ,I would say Miguel Angel Fuertes is a great animator and a better person.I think he is one of the best choices.

[HellBoy]

someone from games this time,

[seemajogoo]

wow! yes!
i would luv' 2C hyung tae kim here!


check out http://hyung-taekim.org/index.php




Yes, hyung tae kim !!

[proconpictures]

someone from games this time,

how about
a Korean artist. an art director who has created character designs for the Korean video game company Softmax, who are involved with three popular Korean titles: War of Genesis III, Magnacarta: The Phantom of Avalanche, and Magnacarta: Crimson Stigmata. this artists perfect character structures, the stylish and dazzling outfits, and the colours used to emphasizes his characters exceed him beyond others. his talent and style has captured the eyes of people world wide.

[Hyaloclastics]

I would love to see one of these extremely telented artists:

Justin Sweet http://www.justinsweet.com/
Ashley Wood http://www.ashleywoodartist.com/
Craig Mullins http://www.goodbrush.com/
Jon Foster http://www.jonfoster.com/
Puddnhead http://www.puddnhead.com/menu.htm
Carlos Huante http://www.carloshuanteart.com/

or

someone from these Japanese genious
Masahiro Ito http://www.geocities.jp/nobu_hill/index.html
Takayoshi Sato http://www.satoworks.com/
If you have seen the making of Silent Hill2 or the art of Silent Hill,you'll come to know that those two are pure genious!I'm always amazed not only by their incredible artwork but most of all by their way of thinking.

and last but not least
http://www.yocky.biz/
I don't know anything about him,but his work speaks for itself...

[kmest]

hey......i dont think its possible here but ca anyone here access to GLEN KEANE???he is trully a legend in animation......not CG,but theres lots and lots of things that animators lieks to ask someone like him

[ojkielland]

So far I agree with the people who have suggested winners of challenges...

But, why not just go all the way to the top and invite Syd Mead?

[JosephGoss]

syd mead, craig mullins and ryan church

[iDnoMore]

Craig Mullins,Yanick Dusseault ,Stephan Martiniere...
of course mullins would be my first vote like so many people up there:cool:

well,didn't notice the sticky schedule thread:5.30-sparth:shrug: ...sorry for that,fix my vote a little bit right away :bowdown:

[robvmonte]

how bout a character designer.

[Bruna]

Pplz, Brazilian 3D artist ALCEU BAPTISTÃO!! CREATOR OF KAYA, DIGITAL GIRL!!!

Also owner of Vetor Zero, in São Paulo. www.vetorzero.com.br/kaya (http://www.vetorzero.com.br/kaya)
He's got so much to tell!! Has to be interviewed!

[MechaHateChimp]

Igor Tkac (igorstshirts (http://igorstshirts.cgsociety.org)). Not an industry guy but I guarantee he has a thing or two to show anyone about vector illustration and innovative outside the box thinking... a subject that is sorely lacking in the cg community. Plus he doesnt sugar coat and tells it like it is.

[living_for_cg]

Im agree about the character designer ... i also suggest Jhon Lasseter.:)

[underearth]

hi guys..
i see most of modelling requests... well i suggest why not to invite our very own Michael Comet his website (http://www.comet-cartoons.com) .. he has recently created his muscle plugin cMuscle system..
i am his big fan..his "cometSaveWeights.mel" has saved my ass lot of time ....

and i suppose we also want to share his character rigging experience from ICEAGE 2..

cheers :applause:

[MrJames]

I would love to see Jeff Unay come here and give us a Q&A session... :)

[proconpictures]

oy,
can someone tell me when blur is gonna be on?
it says may 23rd. but i believe i kinda missed tat or some'...

[kingmango]

http://www.philipstraub.com/
and
http://rorshach.cottages.polycount.com//

[dzygn]

:bounce: 1. SYD MEAD! :thumbsup:
:bounce: 2. SYD MEAD!!:buttrock:
:bounce: 3. SYD MEAD!!!:applause:

Please Hire Me! I Don't Need Your Salary .. I will Pay You Sir!
cuz I'm 25 year experienced!,high dedication, detail oriented, elite painstaker,fast, loyal, ambitious,philosopher &humanitarian (sorry for terrible lingo fiasco)

[vANON]

my vote's on Comet. He's done some great work and would surely have a lot to say that would be of interest to us mortals.

[gandu]

I would like to see nick park from ardmans

Thank you

[miepangsit]

what about Bruno Gentile? www.hydropix.com (http://www.hydropix.com) this guy has a pretty "wicked" style of rendering with photoshop. check out his video tutorials section...u'll see wat i mean. =

[archer201977]

A thousand excuses to every one, i'm a newbie here, i would like to add my best favorite artist to be featured here, and he is "Todd Mcfarlane" that's all......

[Sugartastic_D_Slim]

Practical:

Sanjay Patel (www.gheehappy.com)

Jim Finlay (http://www.jimfinlay.com)

Jim Jagger (http://www.jimjagger.com/)

Dreaming:

Ollie Johnston

John Lasseter

[Ismail]

My suggestions.:)


Aaron Sims

Angie Jones.:)

Craig Mullins

Carlos Huante

ANyone from Epic Games. :)

Doug Chiang :)

Sang Jun Lee

Derek Thompson

Erik Tiemens


Smilies on everyone of these.:)

[kingmango]

Anyone from Epic Games
Ya Shane Caudle would be especially cool.
I think I posted Rorshach (http://rorshach.cottages.polycount.com/) earlier too. :D

[Algorythm]

Hi everyone,

We need your feedback on who you want featured on this Q&A Forum!

When suggesting artists, please post any relevant information about them, such as their website, and why you think they should be featured here!

Thanks!

Leonard

Hey Leonard,
I would love to see Daphne Yap, Syd Mead, Olivier Ponsonnet, Shunya Yamchita, and Elizabeth Austin for starters.
Thanks!
-Algorythm

[kmest]

Rob coleman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171197/)???
he's the best

[Klixx]

..i would really love to see "Pascal Blanche'"..and "Francisco A. Cortina " up in here..loooooooooooove there works...thank you..:scream:

[riri284]

how about the mill studio from london?

[ffourier]

yep, someone from the mill or moving picture company could be very cool. Because I want job here :)

[def4d]

I'd like to see Zuliban, Myqel, Giraffe, and Pendzel here

[paperclip]

JOHN KNOLL, the FX director of 'Pirates of the Caribbean; The Dead Man's Chest!'


C'MON! These people did Davey Jones, for crying out loud!

[rblitz7]

JOHN KNOLL, the FX director of 'Pirates of the Caribbean; The Dead Man's Chest!'


C'MON! These people did Davey Jones, for crying out loud!
seconded!:thumbsup:

[LoveToDesign]

How about harald belker? Has he done it yet?

[phantomworkshop]

..i would really love to see "Pascal Blanche'"..and "Francisco A. Cortina " up in here..loooooooooooove there works...thank you..:scream:

Pascal was already Featured :)

[LeoWong]

Meats Meier

http://www.3dartspace.com/

[LeoWong]

I would love to see Mark Behm featured.

As far as I know he's working for Blue Sky right now...or at least he was a couple of years ago.

Anyways, I love this guy's stuff. He's a great concept artist and an excellent animator as well.

http://www.markbehm.com


good, i like it

[MSun]

allan mckay anyone?

[Samo]

Now that Cars has been released, Jeremy Birn please.

[riri284]

yay allan mckay please, please, please or Mark Behm as tyson supposed

[calilifestyle]

Terrence Walker

[ftaswin]

Seung Ho Henrik

[Imagus]

I'd like to see a Q&A with Francisco A. Cortina, and NOT just because he's the only one of the three from d'Artiste: Character Modeling that hasn't had an MTA session.

In addition to the basic questions, I think his experience working for Japanese game giant Square would provide a great deal of insight into dealing with cultural gaps, and his early learning experience would both provide a good deal of insight into how far 3D applications have come, as well as give tips on how to motivate oneself to learn applications without relying on formal classes.

-= Imagus =-

[fattyLees]

I've said it once and I'll say it again...

TIM HITTLE!!

This guy is an amazing animator and story teller.

Check him out here.... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386972/

Asides from working on Toy story 2, A bug's life, Monkeybone ( which i really liked), Nightmare before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach He's made a couple of really amazing stop motion shorts. My favorite is Can HEad.
See it here...
http://www.atomfilms.com/landing/landingIndex.jsp?id=atom_57

Anyways I think he would be great to talk to because he has such a diverse background.

[marciowski]

- Tim Burton
- Carlos Saldanha (blue Sky)
- Lucia Modesto (TD-PDI)
- Someone from DIGIT (the hungarians)
- Chris Landreth ("Bingo", "Ryan", Oscar awarded)

[ipdesigner]

I'd like to see Zuliban, Myqel, Giraffe, and Pendzel here

*i agree, i really love their works:thumbsup:

[culpin]

Jon Foster [http://www.jonfoster.com/pages/ill%20frame.html]
Craig Mullins [http://goodbrush.com/]
Glen Orbik [http://www.orbikart.com/]

[thea]

Anry nemo or noah-kh!!!

[Ariel]

I think that having Moby Francke, of Valve Software would be great. He's a character designer and art director, most recently responsible for the look of Team Fortress 2. He's a very rare and talented guy, an amazing painter, draughstman and designer.

If you guys are interested I can get you in touch with him. I'm sure he'd be thrilled to contribute!

[cok3]

how about craig mullins?

[artursadlos]

Eric Tiemens!!!

[erilaz]

Dan Milligan, storyboard artist extrordinaire.:)

[xDarkvisionx]

Fausto De Martini

[alitunch]

justin sweet - www.justinsweet.com (http://www.justinsweet.com/)
ashley wood - www.ashleywoodartist.com (http://www.ashleywoodartist.com)

their works are really cool and they are really artists...

[Quiron]

I would like to propose Zack Petrov, he has wonderful ZBrush modelling skills. You can see his work on the Gnomon Workshop´s webpage.

[Soon2bAnimator]

gotta invite Ed Boon

[LineDetail]

I'd like to see Doug Williams on here.

I'm a fan of his work in 3d and also in 2d.

You can see his work at www.DougBot.com (http://www.DougBot.com)

He's had his work in guild wars and some xbox games.

-Line

[xdemolicx]

Zuliban
Zack Petrov

[LightSovereign]

I'd like to see Andrew Probert, personally. A thread about star trek very recently (infact still active) highlighted Andrews cinematic and television efforts.

Enterprise refit for the motion picture

Cylon design for the original battle star

Airwolf

Street Hawk

the 'Delorean' from back to the future..


This is quite a list..

anyways..my vote for andrew probert

Marley

[whalerider]

Some good FX TD or FX Supervisor...

[JamJam-Jam]

Please do a Q & A with: Glenn Rane, Chris Metzen, Samwise (All Blizzard Entertainment associated). Thanks!

[pnkdan]

I would love to see Soa Lee. She's the reason why I enter the world CG (and maybe she has "ruined" my life, too because of her amazing 3D artworks :D).

[jayrivers]

I'm not sure who, but maybe a senior TD from a company such as ILM as lately it's mostly been animators

[MinaRagaie]

I totally agree with "jayrivers" it's been animators for a while
(plus I've always wondered y there's always twice as much resources for animators than lighting artists)
what about a Lighting TD from pixar?? (or you choose the company :) )

[Rayan]

I do not know............

[3dj]

I just saw this thread, so sorry if this is only 3D, but as far as a GREAT artist, one I would love to read about, is Mark Fredrickson. For those who don't know of this incredible illustrator, he started out as an airbrush illustrator, back when that was considered the technical side of the trade. When you see his work, at first, you may think, oh yeah, I have seen this style alot, but he is the originator of it, all others are either inspired by or copy his style.

Anyway, he has since gave up on the airbrush, even though he gave instructional seminars that people paid big bucks to get in on, and went completely digital. So, why do I think he would be a fantastic interview? Because, his style from the airbrush days, are replicated beautifully with his digital art. So it would be great to hear about this transition.

Take a look at his work,

http://www.theispot.com/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=portfolioSearchAction&artistID=I028&SearchParameter=artistID&newSearch=yes


-Jim

[tayse]

I would definitely like to see " Taron " featured...

[zcreem]

I would also like to see Carlos Baena featured, some really great work guy.

[IvanThaDriver]

I don't know if anybody suggested that already (I didn't read whole thread I must say) but I think that "Infinite" is THE man to meet! His "3d girl" is THE MOST INCREDIBLE 3D I've seen in my life! Just instant K.O.! :buttrock:

---> http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=360276 :bounce:

[Coyox]

Definitely Ron Spencer, but I do believe he's more of a traditional artist, sadly.

[phantomworkshop]

Hard-Surface / Environment Artists. Film & Games!

[Mascou77]

I would definitely love to see " Craig Mullins " featured...
Such a powerful and creative artist...

[ikuru]

http://www.gezfry.com/

I want more from this guy! one of the best artists in the world right now I think.

[Ariel]

http://www.gezfry.com/

I want more from this guy! one of the best artists in the world right now I think.

Holy crap!! that's amazing work. I second your thought.

His work reminds me a lot of another amazing artist, James Jean: www.jamesjean.com (http://www.jamesjean.com)

[ikuru]

Holy crap!! that's amazing work. I second your thought.

His work reminds me a lot of another amazing artist, James Jean: www.jamesjean.com (http://www.jamesjean.com)

Ariel, I dig your taste dude;) Love the art, there is one with a hot teacher in a classroom, made me laugh and what a big talent too!
whent straight to my bookmarks.

thanx.

[Ariel]

Ariel, I dig your taste dude;) Love the art, there is one with a hot teacher in a classroom, made me laugh and what a big talent too!
whent straight to my bookmarks.

thanx.

Man, he's awesome. Pretty young guy with a huge credit list to his name. He's also got a book out: http://www.amazon.com/Process-Recess-Art-James-Jean/dp/0972179461 (worth every penny).


here are a few more links of people who might be worth featuring (all illustrators, digital and not):

http://ashleybambaland.blogspot.com/
http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/
http://www.andreawicklund.com/ (we just hired her at Valve, she's also awesome!! ...shameless plug ;) )


Again, thanks for posting that guy's portfolio...this has made my day.

[ikuru]

thoes samurai at gotcheecks where real nice

[EvenHH]

Carlos Huante ---> A very rare and nice look at his characters
His homepage here! (http://www.carloshuanteart.com/)

[Maligor]

Keith Lango, I cant believe he has only been mentioned once in this thread!

[TamTu]

I hate to go mainstream, but I'd like to suggest Michael Turner and Joe Madureira. They're popular comicbook artists for a reason ^^;

=TamTu

[DMNY]

Not sure if it was suggested but what about Range Murata and/or Yoshitoshi ABe?

[Agent0069]

I'm not sure if his name has been mentioned but I would like to ask a bunch of questions to Shawn Kelly.

[Kewn]

I'd love to ask Kevin Llewellyn aka Puddnhead some things..

www.puddnhead.com (concept art)
www.kevart.com (fine art)

Love his work.

[Stefan-Morrell]

I'd like to see a feature on the environment artists behind Gears Of War:bounce:

[Epias]

Mark Goerner?

Marko Djurdjevic?

Harald Belker?

[deanEkko]

I'd really like to see an interview with Ian McCaig. He seems to be a very grounded yet imaginative person, filled with wisdom.

Ian McCaig!!!

[keko]

:thumbsup:
Splinedoctors website (http://www.splinedoctors.com/)
- Andrew Gordon
- Scott Clark
- Angus Maclane
- Stephen Gregory
- Michael Venturini
- Adam Burke

[Kewn]

Wow keko thanks for that link :D

[Briareos]

I'd really like to see an interview with Ian McCaig. He seems to be a very grounded yet imaginative person, filled with wisdom.

Ian McCaig!!!

Ditto.....

[marciowski]

Someone from Pyrostudios, Buff, The Mill or any european studio.

Someone from goblins, filmakademie, supinfocom or any other european school.

Ed Hooks

[retsbabe]

ryan church please

also..why not the cgsociety board of advisors?

[Gauge]

I would like to cast my vote for Iain McCaig as well

[VonMarsch]

I would like to hear from Ian Mccaig too. He's one of my favourite artists but unfortunatly he's like a ninja... You really can't see or here anything about him :D It would be nice see him featured. :thumbsup:

[danielelliott]

Well at the Mill London, I can recommend Jordi Bares, Antoine Molineau, Rob Van den Bragt, Russell Tickner... list goes on.

Everyone should look at the website and look at some of the credits to see who worked on what.

[schakaib]

Stefan Morrel

[yeoj3d]

Fausto De Martini

Especially after seeing the starcraft II cinematic.

[whalerider]

Jason Iversen, Andrew Orloff.

[SpaceTik]

I second Fausto De Martini

He did the starcraft II cinematic?!?! man I knew that guy was good way back.. was wandering what he was up to!

[tinitus]

John Knoll!!

[yeoj3d]

I second Fausto De Martini

He did the starcraft II cinematic?!?! man I knew that guy was good way back.. was wandering what he was up to!

Well i know he's currently the lead character artist at Blizzard, so i assume he modeled & textured the main character and the marine suit. the environment looked like his style as well as far as the mechanical modeling and textures. He hasn't updated his website recently, so i don't know how much he did on the cinematic, but the majority of the modeling & textures definitly seem to have his style. check out his site: http://www.fausto3d.com/home.html



John Knoll!!

I also agree with John Knoll. He's one of the Godfathers of the digital art industry.

[wxing0515]

yes i agree with you and thank you very much,by the way,this is wangxing from china

Martin Krol, Wiro, Martin Krol, Robert Chang, Martin Krol, Enayla, Martin Krol.

Oh yeah... Ambient Whisper would be a good one too.

*edit* forgot details:

I think Martin should be featured here because his modeling talent surpasses most of anything I've seen. The man has knowledge of just about every 3D app there is. He posts all over this place and adds his pearls of wisdom and on the same note you can see that as advanced as he is... he's still learning... he's just like the majority of the people here that ar trying to increase their knowledge.

His Site (http://ambient-whisper.cgcommunity.com/)

I like Wiro for much of the same reasons.

Lunatique and Enayla (whom I see you already have on the schedule) are very much the same for more traditional styles of art. They really try to help out where and whenever possible and it's really fun to watch them as they learn stuff here on CGTalk as well like Lunatique's Topology studies or Linda's dabbling in animation (kickin it southpark style) in the Sketch of the day forum.

sorry for being all fan boy... but these people represent (to me) the best of what the CGTalk community is about. Sharing the knowledge and having a good time doing it.

[doodlerboy]

What about the director of lighting for transformers, or the Director of Animation for Transformers. I say anyone from Transformers.

[MatejaPetkovic]

What about Marko Djurdjevic?
http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?cover_art=MARKO%20DJURDJEVIC

Buy

M

[Nikorasu]

Yeah, feature a girl artist! :thumbsup:

[nickmarshallvfx]

Roger Kupelian. He is a very inspirational matte painter, who I believe has also been involved with compositing and concept art. Great work though, and the invisible artists often dont get enough credit. Loads of industry experience that i know I would love to tap in to, and im sure other people would greatly benefit from too.

Nick

[robodesign]

It's a funny thing to say it, but... I think it's *original*.

Why everyone who posts here, asks for "great" artists who've worked on Box Office movies?

Why wouldn't one post to ask for an unknown artist? But, of course, good enough.

[Coyox]

I agree it would be really really cool to see anyone from the animation/lightning department of this movie. the animation was so spectacular.


What about the director of lighting for transformers, or the Director of Animation for Transformers. I say anyone from Transformers.

[Sp4rt4n]

Ryan Church. I have always loved his work and he is simply one of the best concept artist around today. Check out his site at RyanChurch.com!

[Kerem]

Don't know if anyone suggested but I suggest Eric Hanson.

[suitepeas]

Grzegorz Jonkajtys.

www.thearkfilm.com
www.3dluvr.com/jonkajtys

[Arrrgh4life]

Nate Wragg
nvm, found an interview here: http://nate-wragg-interview.blogspot.com/

[Choice]

Like many others, i don´t know if someone has suggested this already, but i haven´t seen a thread nor a suggestion around here so.... brom ! XD

[Noisetank]

I would like to see somthing with Bengal!

[vancliff]

I would like to see one of the older like Chris Foss, doing excelent sci-fi illustration with just pencil and airbrush before the computer wave.

[vancliff]

I would like to see one of the older like Chris Foss, doing excelent sci-fi illustration with just pencil and airbrush before the computer wave.

[kevline]

-Craig Mullins
-Ryan Church
-E. tiemens

They're the best ^^

[Srikanthacharya]

MICHEAL.D.COMET -www.comet-cartoons.com

[SwendlyB]

Cole Eastburn!

http://www.eastburnart.com/

[entrancea]

Want to meet ALLAN MCKAY please......:bounce:

www.allanmckay.com (http://www.allanmckay.com)

[contremisart]

Richard Rosenman
Marek Denko
Stephan Martiniere
Andrew Jones
George Hull
...

[yiorgos]

Jose Manuel Oli
Melanie Delon
Henning Ludvigsen
Natasha Roeoseli

[LuckyDevil]

Marko Djurdjevic

[Xelar]

I want to meet Benita Winckler !

[pAinto]

ryan church
erik tiemens

[FerdiJV]

I would love to see the following people:

Robert Chang
Linda Bergvist
Love them both for their same kind of painting technique

I second Marko Djurdjevic for his insperation to all concept artists

Nicolas Bouvier for his nice scientific paintings

Steven Stahlberg 3D artist who does nice designs: mostly woman with some sort of emotion involved

Most of them can be found here at cg society and as for the rest that i'm not sure of

Nicolas Bouvier www.sparth.com
Marko Djurdjevic: I don't have anything solid about him except that his website will be up soon or something like that

[PaperSack]

In search of Ganbat Badamkhand. If anyone knows a contact of a forum he/she visits please emial me. I am looking to purchase some of his work.

[nickmarshallvfx]

I want to see an interview with Paul Lasaine! All the really well known artists seem to get featured, whilst some incredible talent that prefer to sit in the background get left behind!

Nick

[X-RaiZen]

Cameron Miyasaki please =)
an interview with Bengal would be great too!

[Crazzy Legs]

Craig Mullins
Andrew Jones

[JCAddy]

Jeff Patton and Master Zap

The two great mental ray minds that are willing to share every bit of their knowledge to help others.

[xxbinxx]

I want to see an interview with Cao Viet Cuong please !

[Baltasound]

Kyung Up Hyung (or something like that)

[PETzz]

I would like to see Samwise and Howard Lyon (http://howardlyon.com/main.htm).

[suitepeas]

I would like to see a character rigger featured here. I feel like too often they are overlooked by animators and hey, we're talented too!

Or for the best of both worlds,
Morgan Loomis, (Animation and Rigging)
http://loomisanimation.com/

[benteschlick]

Melanie Delon!

[Skawa]

I suggest Jan Jureczko - The Man from Frontpage!

[Simia]

Ganbat Badamkhand

[amermaid]

Dave Burgess

[Elitha]

Diane Ozdamar and/or Melanie Delon

[SOuNDSNC]

I'd personally love to see some bioware artists do some Q/A sessions. I loved the art in Mass Effect and bought the art book but there's so much more that could be asked that has yet to be answered.

[cage3d]

I would really really love to see Sir Alex Alvarez featured. I am a super big fan of him.

[x70]

My vote is for the character designer of the cloverfield monster.

[BiGMaCHiNe]

my personal request would b to feature a prominent scriptwriter.

[saks27]

Jeremy Birn would be great. Ligthing TD for Pixar Studios and he runs the Ligthing Challenges in the mini Challenge part of the forums. www.3drender.com (http://www.3drender.com)

:)

[Niels-NL]

My vote is for the character designer of the cloverfield monster.

My vote to

[mjca]

Has Dennis Muren's book been released?

[azozel]

Can we get Brad Bird?

[x70]

Agreed. Brad Bird would be very cool.

[Vanox]

Yanick Dusseault aka DUSSO, he's a great Matte painter and concept artist from Quebec.
www.dusso.com

[nickmarshallvfx]

Paul Lasaine, incredible concept artist from projects ranging from the Lord of the Rings to Surfs Up.