Seb McKinnon

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Seb McKinnon
Born
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Education Dawson College
OccupationArtist
Website www.sebmckinnon.com

Seb McKinnon is a Canadian freelance illustrator. [1] [2] He has illustrated many cards for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering . [3]

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Early life, education, and family

Seb McKinnon was born in Montreal, Quebec, growing up in a creative family with four younger brothers. [4] He attended Dawson College, where he received a degree in illustration. [1]

Career

For some time after college, McKinnon worked for the video game company Ubisoft as a game designer. [1] At Ubisoft, he was a part of the concept team for the tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege.

In 2012, McKinnon received his first commission from Wizards of the Coast to illustrate a card for the Magic 2013 core set of Magic: The Gathering. [3] He has since provided art for more than 100 Magic: The Gathering cards, having gained a reputation within the Magic community for his wistful, dreamlike compositions. [5] [6]

Aside from illustration work, McKinnon started a film production company, Five Knights Productions, with his brother, Ben. In 2013, they released Kin, a short film which went on to win the Best Cinematography awards at both the Montreal Fantasia Film Festival and the Cyprus International Film Festival. [7] [1] In 2015, the two McKinnon brothers completed Salvage and Requiem, two more short films set in the same Kin Fables universe. [8] [9] [10] [1] After Ben died in 2016, Seb and his brother Liam started work on Kin Fables: The Stolen Child, a Kin Fables feature film in honor of his brother. [11] [4] [12] Seb has run two successful Kickstarter projects to fund The Stolen Child, offering playmats featuring his Magic: The Gathering art as compensation for donations. [13] [3]

In addition to digital illustration and filmmaking, Seb McKinnon produces music under the name CLANN. [2] Much of the music in the Kin Fables films was made by McKinnon using the Logic Pro software. [1] [14] [3]

Controversies

In January and February of 2022 McKinnon was criticized by fans for a January 30 Instagram post supporting the Canada convoy protest. [15]

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  11. ↑ "The Stolen Child". IMDb. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  12. ↑ "Interview: Inside The Graceful Cinematic Universe Of Kin Fables". Beautiful Bizarre. Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
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