Craig Elliott

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Craig Elliott
Born (1971-07-13) July 13, 1971 (age 50)
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)artist

Craig Elliott (born July 13, 1971) is an illustrator, visual development artist and layout artist who works in the animation industry. After graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1996, he went on to work on numerous films for Disney Feature Animation, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon and Fox Animation Studios. Craig also exhibits his fine art illustrations and paintings at both Wondercon and Comic-Con International as well as occasionally teaching at the Art Center College of Design and Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

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Books and comics

Craig has painted comic book and cover artwork for Dark Horse Comics, [1] appeared in various art periodicals such as Spectrum, [2] Erotic Fantasy Art [3] and The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today [4] as well as self publishing his own projects through the Aristata imprint. [5]

In 2008, Craig was invited to contribute a piece to the Totoro Forest Project, [6] a fund raising exhibition/auction to support the national trust Totoro Forest Foundation that was founded by Oscar Award winning film maker Hayao Miyazaki.

Works

Filmography

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References

  1. "Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor: "Turnpike" adaption, Max Alan Collins; art, Craig Elliott".
  2. "Spectrum". spectrumfantasticart.com.
  3. "Erotic Fantasy Art – Duddlebug, Aly Fell – Hardcover".
  4. Erotic Signature Archived 2008-09-13 at archive.today
  5. Aristata Publishing Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Totoro Forest Project Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine