concept artists
Preproduction visual designers
Concept artists create visual designs that establish the look and feel of projects before full production begins.
They work primarily in entertainment industries—video games, films, animation—developing characters, environments, creatures, and objects that guide other artists and production teams.
The role blends artistic skill with problem-solving: The concept artist sketched dozens of variations before the director approved the final spaceship design.
- illustratorsThose who create images for texts
- digital paintingArtwork made using software
- mood boardsVisual concept collections
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- art directorsVisual design supervisors
art department · creative brief · world-building · sketching · storyboarding · video games · iteration · pre-production · color · character design · keyframes · prototyping · matte painting · costume designers · virtual reality · fantasy art · animators · augmented reality
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci, cartoonists
- creativesartists, painter, painters, illustrators, designer
- visual creatorsgraphic designers, illustrators, digital artists, graphic artists, visual artists
- art worldpainter, painting, paintings, sculpture, sculptures
- comic book roleswriters, illustrators, pencillers, inkers, colorists
- emerging artistsrising star, rising stars, up-and-comers, newcomer, newcomers