| Guy Davis | |
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| Born | November 20, 1966 |
| Area(s) | Concept Designer, Production Designer, Creature Designer, Illustrator |
Notable works | Pacific Rim (film), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (film), B.P.R.D., The Marquis |
| Awards | 2023 Annie Award Winner (Pinocchio/ Best Production Design), 2023 Art Director Guild Winner (Pinocchio/ Best Production Design), "Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team" Eisner Award (2009) |
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Guy Davis (born 1966) is an American creature designer, concept artist, production designer, illustrator and storyboard artist who has worked on film, television, comic book and video game projects. He is known for his collaborations with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, including the television series Cabinet of Curiosities (2022), The Strain (2014–17) and the films Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017) and Pinocchio (2022) along with video game properties including Diablo IV, Gears of War 4 and Alone in the Dark . He has also provided illustration work for the White Wolf role-playing game series and TCM Underground, cover artwork for Criterion, poster art for Mondo and product design for Patrón. He started his art career illustrating comic books in 1985 and was the regular artist for the Hellboy spinoff comic B.P.R.D. (2003–2010), as well as the artist behind his own creator-owned comic The Marquis (1997-2009).
A self-taught illustrator, Guy Davis began his art career in 1985. Soon his independent work attracted the editors of Caliber Press, who published his first creator-owned series — the Harvey Award-nominated Baker Street . It was the success of Baker Street that got Davis work with DC Comics/Vertigo, illustrating Sandman Mystery Theatre . He illustrated Mike Mignola's ongoing B.P.R.D. series, The Zombies That Ate the World for Métal Hurlant , and his creator-owned series The Marquis for Dark Horse Comics. [1] [2] . At the 2011 ECCC, Davis announced he would be leaving as the ongoing B.P.R.D. artist and no longer continue working in comics.
Concept Design and Film Work 2011 - present
Since leaving comics, Davis has moved to a career in Conceptual Design and Production Design, providing concept art, character design and storyboards for film, television and video games. He worked on Pacific Rim, designing the Kaiju Otachi and Slattern, along with various props and storyboards. Other conceptual design projects for director Guillermo del Toro include Cabinet of Curiosities where he worked as series creature designer, Nightmare Alley , The Shape of Water , Crimson Peak , The Strain TV series, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXIV opening and the upcoming Frankenstein film from the director. He was also the award winning Production Designer and Character Designer on Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio . Other concept and character design work includes Antlers , The Sea Beast , Lost in Space , MST3k: The Return , Steven Universe , ParaNorman , The Mill at Calder's End, The Haunted Swordsman, Asura, Big City Greens, Monster Hunter and We are Zombies, along with Costume Concept for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and video game projects including Evolve, InSane, Gears of War 4 , Diablo IV, State of Decay 3 and Alone in the Dark (2024).
Davis currently resides in Michigan.
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Comics work includes:
Other Projects:
He won the Eisner Award in
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