Describing the work of Randall Sly, Alex Mandra, Jehan and Jens Holdener.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create people at random? You can’t. But you can create characters for animation. Randall Sly is an character designer and animator who does exactly that. He shows his work and the work of his colleague at his weblog Character Design.

At Character Design you’ll find the history from concept to final product of famous characters like this one

to lovely pictures like this Kung Fu Panda

Articles about work by colleague usually contain a link to an interview.

Alex Mandra has a little but nice blog with a few of, what I would call, indoor landscapes and cityscapes.

I have no idea of what this is supposed to be but it is a lovely painting

Here is a lovely painting of a city in decline. Going by the description I think it’s part of some game.

Jehan is a concept artist who works for EA games. His blog is kind of a mixture of personal photos and concept art.

Sometimes searching for beautiful artsites is a sad affair. I open a blog to find a beautiful painting like this one

Immediately I think “If the rest of the blog is like this I’ll do 4 site today”.
But sadly scrolling down I find that Jens Holdener gave up after only four articles.
Update: Looking a little closer I find I was wrong. Jens Holdener didn’t give up. Turns out that this is a very new blog of a very good, if not very productive, artist

(I’m sorry for posting this article twice. I had some problems getting the pictures to show.)