FMX 2019 - Shaping Film Sets and Environments

The Concept Art track at FMX 2019 is proud to present a series of concept designers who use their illustration skills to convey complex ideas in a powerful way. As the animation and FX industry relies more on more on complex co-productions across multi-national and multi-studio platforms, Concept Art has never been more important to be the “glue” that holds all communication channels and the director’s vision together. The track will feature a series of talks plus an interactive panel discussion.

CONFERENCE | ART | CONCEPT ART
Wednesday, May 01, Meidinger-Saal, 14:00 - 15:00

Cinematic Design - Shaping Film Sets and Environments
Peter Popken, Concept Artist

Schedule FMX 2019

Nominated for Art Directors Guild Award

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald‘s production designer Stuart Craig, set decorator Anna Pinnock, and the entire team were nominated in the category Fantasy Feature Film for Best Production Design. adg.org

Fantastic Beasts 2

The Crimes of Grindelwald - Official Comic-Con Trailer

Wallace Corp

   "... The minimalist office of Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) is surrounded by an interior moat of water and accessible by an automated stone path. Because Wallace is blind, sound also was a consideration..." read more


hollywoodreporter.com

Blade Runner 2049 wins ADG Award

The Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards Honors Production Design In Theatrical Motion Pictures, Television, Commercials and Music Videos. The Winners were announced on Jan. 28., 2018 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Read more at the official website ADG.org

Oscar® Nomination for Blade Runner 2049

The Academy nominates Bladerunner 2049 five times in the categories Best Production Design, Cinematography, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects.

oscars.org

Bafta nomination for Best Production Design

Blade Runner 2049 receives 8 nomination for the British Academy Film Awards. Categories are Director, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Make Up & Hair, Sound, Special Visual Effects and Production Design.

www.bafta.org

Blade Runner 2049nominated for Excellence in Production Design

The Art Directors Guild just announced the nominations for the 22nd ADG Awards. Visit ADG.org for more information or go to bit.ly/2lVfpCD for PDF press release.

Designing a Brutal, Beautiful Dystopia

Oscar-winning production designer Dennis Gassner reveals the pattern language for the flying Spinner, Wallace Building, and Las Vegas in Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi sequel...(indiewire)

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/blade-runner-2049-dystopia-production-design-denis-villeneuve-1201891427/

Making of

The original 'Blade Runner' broke barriers in the world of special effects when it premiered in 1982. VICE toured the 'Blade Runner 2049' set speaking with the production designer, producer, and director Denis Villeneuve to see how it all got made. Interviews including Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling—about what it was like...

featurette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBsjZgu7T2U

2049

Warner Bros. Pictures

Bafta Production Design Award

BAFTA's annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards and reward the best work of any nationality seen on British cinema screens during the preceding year.

Happy New Year

October 2017 (source: Entertainment Weekly)

Fantastic Beasts

Since the book has been published many pieces of concept art found their way into the web. Iamag.co has a nice selection of creature designs and some of my environment work as well.

Entertainment Weekly catched a glimpse of the wizarding speakeasy: The Blind Pig. Well-populated with wizards, witches and all kinds of magical creatures.

The slick interior design for Shaw's office space in lower Manhatten. Art Deco was the latest fashion and represented the luxury and glamour of a millionaire's life style.

Blade Runner 2049

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer "K", unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, the former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. Warner Bros just released the first teaser trailer:

update

I recently added a few new images to my website. Two illustrations from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and another two from Fantastic Beasts, in cinemas right now. Much more concept art for the film can be found in the book (see post below) and at conceptartworld.com here.

Art of the Film

Pottermore has announced the Art of Fantastic Beasts to be on sale November 18th. The Book features  production paintings, concept sketches, storyboards, blueprints and matte paintings, and insights about the filmmaking journey from Stuart Craig and participating concept artists.

Available soon from Amazon and HarperCollins

Fantastic Beasts at Comic-Con

OUT NOW.

Finally, our third book of the Nuthin' but Mech series hits the stores. With even more images and artists from the game and film industry, this is the biggest volume up to date. The Book is dedicated to the memory of contributing artist Francis Tsai and proceeds from the sales will be donated to his family. You can get your copy at Amazon or from our publisher at DesignStudioPress.

For more images and information visit our blog at nuthinbutmech.blogspot.com