This week on io9 , we celebrate artists and decorator who create the worlds that science fiction inhabits . We ’ll be count at conception nontextual matter from CGI flick to old shoal laughable books and beyond .
Concept creative person are the people who make fantastic globe fare to lifespan , from plan CG creatures to painting the city that eventually fill in the backgrounds on Coruscant . They make the covers of science fable books pop , glue our eye to comic books , and take videogames beyond Leigh Hunt - and - shoot .
Oftentimes , concept artists are unsung champion – most multitude do n’t watch a telly series and exclaim over how nerveless the futuristic urban center in the background look . And yet without those backgrounds , those worldbuilding touches , the show would fall apart . Even when a art object of construct art becomes cardinal to a story , like the Cloverfield monster ( designed byNeville Page ) or the novel lightcycle from Tron ( designed byDaniel Simon ) , audiences rarely realize how much employment has start into these gorgeous plant and who has done them .
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Concept Art Week on io9 aims to change all that . You ’ll converge the artist and designers who make your eye shed blood and your brainiac overheat with flaming mental image of awesomeness . We ’ll plow you to galleries of artistic production that swan from the veneration - inspiring and insane , to the eldritch and ( occasionally ) too bad . And we ’ll also instruct you what it direct to become a construct creative person , from the digital toolkit you require , to which schools to attend .
The breaker point of concept artwork is n’t just to make moving-picture show and books look more beautiful , though . Like not bad storytelling , a brilliant composition of concept fine art invites you to envisage what tomorrow might look like , or how visible light would fall across the tiniest item of a fantasy world . This is the kind of art that challenges you to envisage what it would be like to really take the air through an alternating domain . It help you to see your own mankind through alien eyes .
Which to say , concept art is just like classic prowess . Only awesomer .
Get ready to feed your eyes on some of the great , mind - blowingest art you ’ll ever see . trounce yourselves in for Concept Art Week .
excess - extra thanks to one of our favorite concept artists , the award - winningJohn Picacio , for design the logo for this week .
Bottom image by Syd Mead .
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