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Glen Southern

Glen runs a small 3D studio in Cheshire and provides assets and services to a wide range of clients across TV, film and advertising

GAME ON!

Artists from Airship Images and Skydance Interactive discuss their approach to game art and share advice for advancing your skills

Finding success as a creative in the games industry

Ashley Liu of Keywords Studios offers her insight

COMPOSITING: PART 2

The second part of our compositing basics using DaVinci Resolve will look at how to make the most of an artist's animations and images

Isolation – How To Do It

With humour, impressive variety and a pertinent portrait of a doctor in plague-ridden 17th-century Italy, galleries are coming up trumps online

Mike Learn

Experience: 45 years Location: Boulder County, Colorado Speciality: Megadeth album artist, 2004 Easyrider Prestigious Painter Facebook: Mike Learn Airbrush and Learn Guitars Website: www.mikelearn.com

Wet Paint & Hydroplanes

NAME: Alexe Pilon AKA: Alexe Airbrush Location: Quebec Speciality: Airbrush Facebook: Alexe Airbrush

Rafa Fonseca

Name: Rafael Antonio Fonseca Acevedo AKA: Rafa Fonseca Location: Colombia Speciality: Airbrush Instagram: @rafafonsecaart Facebook: @Rafa-fonseca-Art-Studio

Martin Sims

Long-time readers will know we’ve had our eyes on Sims Guitars for a while – we interviewed their artist Andy Fleet way back in Issue 2! We thought it was long past time for a catchup, so we chatted with Martin Sims…

JahPix Kustom Art & Tattoo Gallery

Name: Michael “JahPix” Schönherr AKA: JahPix Kustom Art & Tattoo Gallery Location: Elpersbüttel Speciality: Kustom Art & Tattoos Facebook: JahPixKustomArtGallery Instagram: @JahPix

Visual artistry

Bluman Associates discuss using Notch software to create visuals for Emeli Sandé’s Real Life World Tour

PART 2: TALKING TECH WITH ANIMAL LOGIC

Part two of our special series on Animal Logic explores the technology, pipeline and research and development side of the studio.

ONE SHOT WONDER

TREVOR HOGG GOES DOWN INTO THE TRENCHES WITH GUILLAUME ROCHERON TO LEARN ABOUT THE OSCAR WINNING VISUAL EFFECTS OF 1917

HOW CAN I CREATE A JADE MATERIAL USING SUBSTANCE DESIGNER? Matt Granger, Leamington

SOFTWARE: SUBSTANCE DESIGNER

FORGER

Discover the sculpting application for the iPad that can create stunning sculpts to be used in 3D software

COOK UP A CG ROYAL DISH

Discover the techniques and software used to produce this delicious selection of CG food

COMPOSITING 101

We start a new chapter of our Basics series, exploring how to make the most of an artist’s animations and images via compositing.

A decade of BlueBolt

Trevor Hogg chats to the co-founders of award-winning visual effects company BlueBolt as they celebrate over ten years of VFX brilliance

MUERTO LOCO

“I GOT INSPIRED AND PAINTED THE ONE I HAD AT HOME IN THE DAY OF THE DEAD STYLE”

SHAUN HUBBARD TATTOO

Sotruetattoo (@sotruetattoo on social media) are a small family run business made up of Shaun (shaunhubbardtattoo), his beautiful and talented partner Megan (meganfelltattoo), with apprentice tattooist Sam (sambtattoo) and Shaun and Megan’s 8-year-old son Owen who is often shop manager.

Ricox Kustom

I started pinstriping five years ago, with a pot of 1 Shot white and a Mack series 10 size 0 brush.

Kris Dean

I enjoy creating all types of art, from photorealism to abstract; incorporating all types of mediums - mainly airbrush, but including paintbrush, pens, pencils, pastels, and fluid art.

KELLER KIND SICKLES

“YOU NEVER CAN HAVE ENOUGH BRUSHES.”

Bycon Lawrence

Byron Lawrence operates under the name ByronicArt along with a painter partner in Orange County, California.

David GROUP

I am a freelance airbrush artist and my subjects range from animals to portraits.

Brian Wilcher

“BEING SELFTAUGHT, I AM VERY PROUD OF WHAT I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.”

BRAD DE LA TORRE

have travelled the world, thanks to body painting competitions.

Amfiria

I’m from southern Poland. I've been painting, sculpting, drawing since I was young...

Walk on the Wild Side

Valencia’s self-proclaimed “pop surrealist” painter ANTONIO SEGURA DONAT is putting a fantastical spin on wildlife art as MARTHA ALEXANDER discovers

VARNISH A painting

You’ve painted a beautiful picture and you are ready to varnish it. But where do you start? LIZET DINGEMANS explains your options and shows you how it is done