3. Adam Adamowicz
Adam Adamowicz (March 9, 1968 –
February 9, 2012) was an American
of Polish descent. He grew up on
Long Island, New York. Best known
for his work on Fallout 3 and The
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim at Bethesda
Soft works. He worked with Jaleco
Entertainment, Inc. between 2002-
2003. Adam started working at
Bethesda Softworks in 2005.
6. Robert Chew
Robert Chew is a graduate of the
Academy of Art University with a BFA
in Traditional Illustration.
Featuring robotic animals, especially
his Big Five series, which imagines a
future in which anti-poaching
operatives are aided by mechanical
rhinos, lions, and vultures (although
the poachers have some robotic
tools of their own). Chew is looking
to turn the series into a book to
benefit the International Anti-
Poaching Foundation.
9. Simon Stålenhag
Simon Stålenhag has worked on a lot
of different projects, ranging from
films, commercials and book covers
to art directing and concept art for
video games. He is also the second
half of Pixeltruss.
His retro futuristic illustrations
imagine great machines coexisting
with a Sweden of decades ago.
Often, these machines appear to be
decaying, and sometimes they are
joined by a passing dinosaur
12. Dave Melvin
Dave Melvin is a concept
artist and instructor at the
Academy of Art University,
and he has some particularly
striking creature designs.
Although some of his
creatures feel purely
fantastical, others seem
pulled from a future where
biological technology has
advanced to create new
organic beings.
15. Pascal Blanché
Pascal Blanché's Derelict
Planet series of
illustrations imagines a
strange world that is both
ancient and futuristic,
with touches of Moebius
and HR Giger. It's easy to
imagine a film where
explorers try to uncover
the mysteries of this
distant planet.
18. Sandara
Sandara, who teaches digital
painting at Digipen Singapore
and does freelance
illustrations for books and
games. She has a number of
fantasy illustrations in her
deviantART gallery, but a few
have narrative threads running
through them: especially a few
digital paintings about a girl in
a fantasy world who finds and
alien seed and a young man
traveling with one of Boston
Dynamics' Bigdogs.
21. Justin Sweet & Vance Kovacs
Justin Sweet and Vance
Kovacs, who have worked on
the Narnia films, Thor, The
Avengers, and more, get a
single entry because they
recently collaborated on a
concept art book for the
fantasy world they conceived
together: The Art of Eclipse:
The Well and the Black Sea,
which was recently the subject
of a massively successful
Kickstarter campaign. Their
concept art already has a
series of stories behind it: