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Artist File #17 —-Francis Vallejo

I accidentally came across Francis Vallejo’s website earlier this year. I was blown away by his draughtsmanship with such pop flavor. It didn’t take me long to email him to invite for the Totoro Forest Project. What I didn’t know was that he was still a student at Ringling School of Design. His work holds [...]

Artist File #16 ——Pete Sohn

I knew of Pete Sohn long before I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him. His parents own an art store in White Plains NY (which I visited often when I worked at Blue Sky Studios) and they have some of his drawings by the counter. The proud parents they are, they pretty much told me [...]

Artist File #15 ———Shinichiro Natsusaka

Shinichiro Natsusaka is a Paris based Japanese sculptor who was friends with one of our committee members Yukino Pang. The first time I was introduced to his work was his book, Samurai Planet. It was a sequential comic book style art all done with his sculptures! He is a pretty successful artist in Paris having [...]

Artist File #14 ——Dylan Brown

This is one unique entry from a long time Pixar veteran Dylan Brown. Dylan Brown is a Supervising Animator at Pixar Animation Studios who has worked on such films as Finding Nemo and Ratatouille. This beautifully designed sculpture is mainly made out of aluminum with some steel rods, bolts. The photos just don’t do justice. [...]

Artists File #13 —–Mike Lee

Mike Lee is a young artist who came to Blue Sky Studios right after I left in June 2007 and now a star designer along with such a talented group. Mike was just a year out of collage but some of his work was as mature as those veteran artists at BSS. So one of [...]

Artist File #13 —- Enrico Casarosa

I’ve known Enrico for a bunch of years, like 36 and nine months. He’s an ok guy I guess. Here’s his, I guess you could call it, “contribution”, a strange one if you ask me. Enrico has mentioned before how he was going for a “Mandala like” composition, circling around the main center panel. I [...]

Artist File #12 —– Catia Chen

I’ve met Catia quite a few years back when participating to the first Flight Comic anthology and her work immediately blew my away. Her contribution to those anthologies are easily my favorite stories! I am also a very proud owner of two of her pieces from the Bird People series!!! Such amazing little handmade booklets, [...]

Artist’s File# 11—– Michael Knapp

…and Here is my buddy Mike Knapp. Mike Knapp is a star artist at Blue Sky Studios who is currently art directing(equivalent of production designing in other studios) Ice Age 3. Growing up in the Blue Sky system, I always wonder why they don’t publish Art of books for Blue Sky movies such as Ice [...]

Artist File#10 —-Véronique Joffre

Ok, my next artist I want to introduce is Véronique Joffre. I must say I was not introduced to this young French Illustrator not too long before this project. She really got me excited about her work with her beautiful collage techniques when I was playing with the technique on my own. She has only [...]

Artist File #9 —–Manuel Arenas

When I grow up want to be like spanish artist Manuel Arenas. His work is stunning, subtle and beautifully watercolored. Where we doodle and sketch in notebooks he seems to fill his Moleskines with fully accomplished, wonderful pages of comics. Really amazing. His blog has been a huge inspiration for more than a couple of [...]