Sunday, April 27, 2008

Concept Artist – Employment Part 2/3

I would probably start a career in concept art here – with this small studio called Imaginary Friends.

This Singaporean studio does illustrations for comics, trading cards, board games and video games. They also take on the occasional illustrations jobs from the local advertising firms in Lion City.

They have gotten some work done for big names like DC Comics (owns Superman, Batman); Upper Deck Entertainment, a company printing and distributing popular card games such as the English version of Yu-Gi-Oh and World of Warcraft trading cards ; and Viz Media which handles the English translation and international distribution of Japanese Manga.

Also, they produce really good art books (portfolios, obviously) from time to time. Check out their Pepper Project and Imagine books! (Click on the images to head to their site)

(Image - Pepper Project, click image to head to the site)

(Image - Imaginary Friends - Imagine Artbook, the annually released collection of works from this group, click image to head to the site)

They seem to have a tight bunch of creatives there in Imaginary Friends, and they are passionate about anything they do. It would be awesome to work with a bunch like that.

I guess to make it with this company, I’d need to get my skills up to their level, and be just as madly happy about doing work for the game and comic industries. I might need to pick up some basic web design skills as most of their best work is accessed by the general public online (that’s how I found out about them anyway).

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