Drawing demands that the artist
pause, to be.
- Pat Oblak
If you paint a man leaning over,
your own back must ache.
- N. C. Wyeth
 

 

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Craig Elliott

Posted by Charley Parker at 8:22 am

Craig Elliott

(Image above © Disney)

Craig Elliott is an illustrator, visual development artist and layout artist who works in the film industry. He has worked on numerous films for Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks and other studios. His credits include titles like Bee Movie, Shark Tale, Flushed Away, Mulan, The Emporor’s New Groove and Treasure Planet. He has also done work for the new Disney Feature Film Enchanted (image above).

In his online portfolio you’ll find a a variety of images of location design, creature and character design, color keys, 3-D models and sets, as well as fantasy illustration.

A number of the most interesting and imaginative images are from Disney’s animated feature Treasure Planet, for which Elliott’s contributions were extensive. He is featured prominently in Treasure Planet: A Voyage of Discovery (more info here), a collection of art done for the movie that also includes artists like Peter Clarke, Peter De Seve, Ian Gooding and Christophe Vacher.

Some of my favorite pieces in Elliott’s portfolio are black and white location design images for Treasure Planet that have a wonderfully imaginative, otherworldly quality, rendered with grainy textures and atmospheric tones. Objects that might be plants, rock formations, or both, extend into the sky over oddly surfaced plains, or form gigantic rippled walls against which tiny figures are silhouetted. Wonderful stuff.

Note: The site contains some NSFW material.

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  1. Comment by Jo
    Thursday, November 15, 2007 @ 10:37 pm

    That really was interesting! I thought the picture looked familiar!
    Cheers!
    - Jo
    http://followtheroadlesstraveled.blogspot.com

  2. Comment by Dominus
    Monday, November 19, 2007 @ 5:57 pm

    amazing artworks

  3. Comment by Vic Vicini
    Friday, November 30, 2007 @ 6:17 pm

    Beautifully done!

  4. Comment by chrystian
    Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 7:16 pm

    no wonder it looked so familiar! wow, thanks for this piece of art. IT IS WONDERFUL! You are the Best!!!

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