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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Matt Gaser

Posted by Charley Parker at 11:33 am

Matt Gaser

Matt Gaser is a concept artist currently working for Lucasfilm Animation on the new Star Wars CG television series.

He was Senior Concept Artist for Stormfront Studios on their recent game Forgotten Realms Dreamstone. Prior to that he was Concept Artist on their game for The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers.

He started out with an interest in animation when, in high school, he was appointed California Art Scholar and had the opportunity to attend a summer art seminar in traditional animation at Cal Arts. He majored in Illustration as Art Center College of Design and went on to intern at Klasky Group (Rugrats).

Amid his professional work, Gaser finds time to work on his own projects, including a GC short film and two children’s books. You will also find in his galleries, that he keeps up with figure drawing and finds time to sketch and doodle.

Gaser works primarily digitally, but his images have a nice feeling of paint surface and materials. He has a terrific sense of color and a wonderful command of lighting as a theatrical device for creating focus within a composition. He knows how to control your eye and make a small area of an image snap into clear relief as a focal point.

In the Projects gallery, you’ll find some his work for the Dreamstone project. As with many concept artists, however, I find myself most drawn to the work in his Personal section, where he has been able to let his considerably fertile imagination run free, with delightful results.

When left to his own devices, Gaser creates bizarre landscapes populated with offbeat characters that make you want to know more about the “story”, even if there isn’t one.

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  1. Comment by Man Arenas
    Tuesday, May 1, 2007 @ 2:33 pm

    impressive, specially the density of colours…
    and his wild imagination.

  2. Comment by Lane Meyers
    Tuesday, May 1, 2007 @ 7:26 pm

    He truly understands lighting.

  3. Comment by Li-An
    Monday, May 7, 2007 @ 2:54 pm

    I loved his illustrations published in Spectrum and did not search for a site. Thank you for this link :-)
    His personnal work his strange and I like this :-)

  4. Comment by Isilda
    Monday, August 13, 2007 @ 10:03 am

    You are a considerably imagination!!! The colours and lighting have a good results. Strength and congratulations. I want to see more of your works. :)

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