Glyn Dillon | |
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Born | 1971 |
Nationality | British |
Area(s) | artist, writer |
Notable works | The Nao of Brown |
Awards | Special Jury Prize, Angoulême International Comics Festival, 2013 Best Book, British Comic Awards, 2013 Concept Art Awards, 2022 |
Glyn Dillon (born 1971 [1] ) is a British costume designer, as well as a comics and film storyboard and concept artist, best known for his work on the Star Wars films The Force Awakens and Rogue One , designing the batsuit for Matt Reeves' 2022 The Batman as well as his 2012 graphic novel The Nao of Brown .
Glyn is the youngest of 3 siblings. Glyn Dillon's father was a signwriter; his older brother Steve Dillon was also a comics artist. Julie Dillon Bleaden, the middle sibling works in childcare. [2]
Dillon got his first job in comics at the age of 17, and worked in comics for seven years, [3] drawing "Planet Swerve", a strip about "art students in space" written by Alan Martin, for Deadline , and work for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, including the miniseries Egypt with writer Peter Milligan [2] and Shade, the Changing Man with the same writer. [1] He drew part of "The Kindly Ones" story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series. [4] [5]
In the mid-1990s he left comics [2] and worked in film and television, primarily as a storyboard and concept artist, [1] as well as a period directing music promos for Ridley Scott's RSA Films.[ citation needed ] He shared a studio in London with Jamie Hewlett, and did some work on Hewlett's Gorillaz music and animation project. [2] In 2007 a gallery of his work appeared in the comic art magazine Swallow, and he began work on his graphic novel, The Nao of Brown. The story of a young woman with Primarily Obsessional OCD, it was published by SelfMadeHero in 2012 [2] and won the Special Jury Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2013. [6] In 2013 he started working as a concept artist in the costume dept on Jupiter Ascending , he then went on to work, in the same capacity, on Kingsman: The Secret Service . He then became chief concept artist in the costume dept on Star Wars: The Force Awakens , for which, among other designs, he originated antagonist Kylo Ren's mask, [7] before being promoted to co-costume designer, alongside Dave Crossman, on the Star Wars film Rogue One and Solo: A Star Wars Story . [1]