Conceptual designers And Illustrators.

Glen Keane

Concept Film Artist

Glen Keane is a leading animation artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Glens career at Walt Disney spanned a long 37 years, his work has help to produce the second golden age of Disney films. Glens help to create very popular and well known characters such as Ariel from 'The Little Mermaid', Aladdin and Pocahontas. After his retirement Glen created a short film about two young youths who both led completely different lives. Glen first took my interest when I realised that he was both an animator and an illustrator, I find that glen is an inspiration to me as, as a child I used to spend hours and hours watching Disney animations and films. I hope that I can take inspiration in the future from his work so that then I am able to create my own short film or animation that is as good as is as capturing as the way Glen created some of today's most known characters.

Here are some of Glens short animations and short films:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsQ4--X2ls4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9CG_PoEWCg

   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBbzdNb5nEU

Ralph McQuarrie

Conceptual designer and illustrator 

Ralph McQuarrie was both an illustrator and a conceptual designer. Ralph has worked on many well know TV series and movies which includes the star wars trilogy, the film E.T, the original battle star galactic and the film cocoon for which he won a academy award. Ralph was born in Indiana and later died in California in 2012. Ralph worked as a conceptual designer for Boeing then later worked making the star wars trilogy. For the original star wars there had o be a believable size for the death star to be that would allow it to appear round for long takes and shots when filming, therefor ralph and the special effects team had to make it appear real, which seemed to be quite difficult as it had to look round for longer takes and look flat close up, these had to created using flat sections of model, placed on flat tables. This is were Ralph ended up calculating that the death star was 92 miles in diameter. Ralph initially worked for a dentistry firm where he would draw teeth and equipment before he later worked as an artist and preliminary design illustrator at the company I previously mentioned 'Boeing'. McQuarrie would draw diagrams for a manual jumbo jet while he was working with the company as well as designing film posters and animating for the coverage of the apollo space program as part of a 3 man company 'Reel Three'. while Ralph worked at Reel Three he was asked to produce some illustrations for a film project that himself and a team member.

Saman Kesh

Saman Kesh is a well know filmmaker and best known for his narrative music video work. Saman is based in Los Angeles, California and has worked with music artists such as: Calvin Harris, Basement Jaxx, Kygo and Placebo. In 2009 Saman worked on his first music video for Cinnamon Chasers first single called 'luv deluxe' this was all while he was attending Art centre college of design as a student. 'Luv deluxe has received over 7 million views on youtube and won an award for the best music video for SXSW. Later on in 2012 Saman went on to direct a music video for the Ed Sheeran, Deus and Calvin Harris for the song 'Stamina' however this video created controversy because of its thematic statements regarding weight loss and obesity, however this resulted

In 2012, he went on to direct videos for Ed Sheeran, Deus and Calvin Harris, his video for the track 'Stamina' from French producer Vitalic sparked controversy with its thematic statements regarding weight loss and obesity in pop culture.^[9] The video resulted in Kesh winning his second SXSW 'Best Video" award in 2013.