Craig Mullins

Craig Mullins (born 1964) is an American digital painter, and leading international concept artist.^[1] He has created art for books, video games and films.

Biography

Craig Mullins was born in 1964 in California and moved at the age of three to Ohio. When he was 18, he went back to California, where for several years he lived in the proximity of Los Angeles. He went to Pitzer College in Claremont, California, for two years, and then studied at Art Center College of Design to study product design and illustration.^[2] He started out as a transportation designer and got a job at Ford in Detroit. There, he discovered that his design sense was a little bit too extreme for the car industry, so he returned to Art Center to study Illustration, where he got his BFA in 1990. Since then, he has worked on many projects as concept artist, illustrator and matte painter. Mullins realized that the digital era freed him from all geographical constraints, so he moved to Hawaii, where he still lives today with his wife, his daughter and his cat. He stated that he is trying to stay in as many areas of illustration as possible. His works are inspired by John Singer Sargent and Frank Frazetta^{[citation needed]}.

Mullins has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

Work

In books

He did book covers for the following books:

• When Gravity Fails (2005 Orb edition)
• A Fire in the Sun (2005 Orb edition)
• The Exile Kiss (2005 Orb edition)
• Halo Encyclopedia
• Pokemonz (2005 Orb edition)
• Caturdays.. The Beginning (2005 Orb edition)
• Caturdays.. The End (2005 Orb edition)
• BioShock: Rapture (2011)
• Murder of Souls (2011)

In film

He did matte paintings and concept art for these pictures:

• The Matrix Revolutions
• Armageddon
• Flubber
• Contact
• Apollo 13
• Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
• Forrest Gump

In video games

He did illustrations for the following videogames:

• Bioshock 2
• Marathon
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Halo 2
• Age of Empires
• Age of Empires III
• Need For Speed
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Europa Universalis III
• Fallout 3
• Mass Effect 2
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
• Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Publications

• Expose 1 by Ballistic Publishing Art of Halo

References

1. ^ McDaid, Brendan (March 23, 2009). "Festival to focus on the creative industry", The Belfast Telegraph, p. 6. "Guest speakers include the world renowned concept artist Craig Mullins..."
2. ^ A Brief Biography at Mullin's official website

External links

• Craig Mullins official site
• Craig Mullins at the Internet Movie Database

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