In 1919 at the age of 9, the artist Tyrus (Gen Yo) Wong arrived on Angel Island from his village in China. As he matter of factly states in Tyrus, Pamela Tom’s new documentary about his life, “I never ...

Robert “Bob” Stanton, a background artist and art director who worked at Disney throughout the 1990s, died on August 13. His death was announced on Facebook by Waysun, the video game company where he ...

As mentioned previously, backgrounds from four different Cygames titles will be part of the exhibit. Art from Shadowverse, Granblue Fantasy, Princess Connect! Re: Dive, and Uma Musume Pretty Derby ...

Animation artist Jill Dykxhoorn is living every aspiring artist’s dream. After meeting a producer of the FX hit “Archer” at a college career fair, she was hired as a concept artist shortly after ...

They wait for hours just to walk across the street. They earn meager wages and struggle to pay the bills. They get treated like the pariahs of the entertainment industry -- and yet they have a passion ...

If you’re a budding manga creator, odds are you spend most of your time working on your character artwork. That’s probably a wise choice, too, as most famous comic artists focus on drawing their ...

Japanese art director and background painter Nizo Yamamoto died on August 19 of stomach cancer. He was 70. Yamamoto was born in Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 1953. After studying architecture in ...

This thread on the subreddit Background Art (which is overflowing with amazing art if you like this kind of thing) has a particularly beautiful collection of images from the 2006 anime adaptation of ...