Pic of the Week . . . Mark Molnar

Bonjour all

Allow me to introduce you to Mark Molnar.  (Check out his blog here)

He's an extremely talented digital concept artist/illustrator working in the entertainment industry and developing projects for international game, film and animation companies.


Apart from his magnificent pieces - which I'm fortunate enough to see everytime he blogs - the one thing that draws me to him is the fact that he uses programs like Photoshop on levels that I can only dream of.  I may be talented with a pencil and be able to throw together a book cover quite confidently, but there's still so much more to know when it comes to programs like these, and one day I'd love to learn.

For today (again, a day late.  Sorry) I couldn't make up my mind which of his pieces to use, so I've gone for two.  AND, if you get a spare few, check out his video below on 'speedpainting' and watch him create a masterpiece.  His confidence astounds me :)

So anyway, enjoy and have a good weekend - what's left of it :)

Floating Mountains

Whale Watching

 
Speedpainting

Pic of the Week . . . Jerad S Marantz

I'm pretty sure Jerad S Marantz has featured before in the Pic of the Week collection, but I'd have to go back through previous posts to find out for sure.

So, without further ado, allow me to (re)introduce this week's artist, Jerad S Marantz.

Jerad is a phenomenal concept designer for the film and games industry. He's worked on games such as Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa, Guild Wars and Lineage Forever. I don't actually know these games but I'm sure many out there do. However, I DO know some of the films he's worked on, films such as Green Lantern, Sucker Punch, Avatar, Clash of the Titans, Spiderman (2012), Transformers 3, The Burrowers, Apparition, Jonah Hex, The Deaths of Ian Stone, Race to Witch Mountain, Wolverine Origins, XMEN First Class, Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Dragon Ball Evolution, Percy Jackson and the Olympians and I am Legend.

His concept art gave life to some of the creatures that gave these films meaning.

I couldn't decide on a specific piece for today, but I did decide on a film. Despite some of the ravings it got, whether people loved it or hated, I've always been a fan of Clash of the Titans, old and new, and so have gone the ancient Greek route.

See if you can recognise some of these characters...

Enjoy!