For 30 years Steve Simpson has been applying his multi-disciplinary skills to creative projects for a diverse range of clients right across the globe. Steve's innovative, award winning approach to graphic design, typography and illustration is built on fresh thinking, traditional skills and dose of fun. Original from Manchester, Steve now lives on the east coast of Ireland where a good sense of humor is essential.

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Gavin Aung Than is a freelance cartoonist based in Melbourne, Australia. After working in the corporate graphic design industry for 8 years he quit his unfulfilling job to focus on his true passion, drawing cartoons. Gavin launched Zen Pencils at the start of 2012, a cartoon blog which adapts inspirational quotes into comic stories, and hasn’t looked back since. Zen Pencils has been featured by many top media outlets including The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Slate and Buzzfeed, and was also named one of the top 100 websites of 2013 by PC Mag.

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Karla Ortiz is a Puerto Rican artist who loves diversity in her work. She works with game and film studios including, Kabam Industrial Light & Magic,Tell Tale Games,Wizards of the Coast, Tor Books and Marvel Studios.

Her fine art work can be found in Spoke Art Gallery, Nucleus Gallery, Thinkspace Art Gallery and Hashimoto Contemporary.

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Andrew “Drew” Leung is a concept designer living in Los Angeles. Having worked in the past as a matte painter, and in pre-viz animatics, his experience brings a well-rounded story- and driven insight into visual development. If he isn't behind a screen at his office, he’s probably out somewhere on two wheels.

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Graduating from art school in 2011, Daniel Warren had to start from scratch and unlearn the bad habits school had enforced in order to re-learn how to be an illustrator. Working closely with the online group Crimson daggers, he began a year long series of streams and challenges that eventually got his name and portfolio out into the working world. He has since worked on a number of projects and IPs including Transformers, Darklands, and Pathfinder- as well as personal projects Skull and Shark and Steve Lichman with his creative partner Dave Rapoza."

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Brett generally makes things up to stay out of trouble. He owns and operates Drawn To It Studios LLC, which is an outsource house for pre-production in film, TV, games, and toys.

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Gino Whitehall is a concept artist in the video game industry. At the age 4 or 5, he became obsessed with drawing. This obsession eventually lead him to Art Center College of Design, Blizzard Entertainment and now mobile gaming. When he's not working on the latest game, you can find him rocking out to heavy metal or drawing in his sketchbooks around the city.

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Matt Gaser is an award winning Art Director, illustrator and Concept Artist living in Northern California. Over the past decade and beyond Matt has created thousands of fantastical characters and landscapes for some of the top games and movies in the entertainment industry. Currently he is working on a children's book series called "The Numerical Adventures of Edmund and Hunter" with Chronicle books.

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Pete is an independent illustrator and concept artist living in the Chicago area. Primarily self taught, he has been working in the game industry for around 7 years. These days he works primarily on self-owned projects in addition to an online mentoring program aimed at helping aspiring artists establish themselves. Originally, Pete was best known for his series of angel portraits but is now most often recognized for the illustrations he’s done for Magic: The Gathering. His work can be found in a number of art annuals including years 19, 20 and 21 of Spectrum.

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Pete is an independent illustrator and concept artist living in the Chicago area. Primarily self taught, he has been working in the game industry for around 7 years. These days he works primarily on self-owned projects in addition to an online mentoring program aimed at helping aspiring artists establish themselves. Originally, Pete was best known for his series of angel portraits but is now most often recognized for the illustrations he’s done for Magic: The Gathering. His work can be found in a number of art annuals including years 19, 20 and 21 of Spectrum.