Concept Designers

Yes, this post is gonna be a bit different. This time I would love to talk about Concept Design. Many people dont know exactly what is "Concept Design" and in fact, at simple sight, is not a easy thing to explain. You can say that is the careful study and desing about everything that surrounds a story, tale, movie, idea, conception. and in fact, you could find several other ways to describe it.

When you are working in something, let´s say a movie, you need to create the places where your characters are going to be, specially if this movie is located in some fantasy world or a real world but with a little of fantasy things on it. For example: Rohan.

When the Fellowship of the Ring, Two Tower and the Return of the King were maded, Rohan was one of the several locations to re-create from zero. Lamps, chairs, Weapon´s racks, tapestry, buildings, horse armor, human armor, everything was designed, studied y professionals whom take care about all the details in a extremely dedicated way just to make us feel like we were actually there. every cup, every thing in the set had to be designed previously so the ambient could be maded perfectly.

Well, This time, I'm going to talk about some Concept designers that I admire so much. Well, in fact, for now only about one, gonna save the tothers for others posts. Feng Zhu is the name of the one who got his share right now. I was looking at my old reference folder in the computer and his folder always caught my attention. A friend of mine show me the videos at the Gnomon Workshop (I believe that is the name that I was looking for, can´t be sure) and I saw how this guy worked.

At the beginning was kinda rough, but later become so clean that could make you feel inspired easily to draw, his lesson was kinda great, dedicated, always explain several tips, and with the work in progress. I know that meanly he has done works for Star Wars and I do believe that he could had made a bit of the Concept Design for a Lord of the Ring Strategy game, can´t remember now.

I'm gonna leave some Illustrations that he has made, so you can enjoy them as I did when I saw them in the first time.

In my opinion: One of the best machine designer ever.

Awesome perspective.

Thisis how Minstrels shoudl looks like *srslynod*

I think that this one has to be with Lord of the Rings... Can´t be sure, so ignore me.

Full ambient, by Feng Zhu.

A robot, by Feng Zhu.

If you feel more curiosity, check his web page: http://www.artbyfeng.com/ for further awesome illustrations. gotta go back to sleep for now, see you later! *Runs back to watch another Castle episode*