Art Babayan

A commercial artist with experience in gaming, theatrical, television, theme park design, product design and marketing. My work includes cover art for numerous magazines, video game covers, print ads, movie posters, storyboards, game, movie and theme park visual development, toy packaging, web design, logos and finishes. I am an associate creative director, with experience in the beginning stages of projects (conceptualizing and strategizing a creative direction), the middle stage of a project (creating and leading a team of artists in the creation of assets, the building of comps, and art directing photoshoots that visualize the creative strategy) and finally finishing the artwork that ends up on shelves or screens as the final product. I do early stage sketches, rough paintings, and finish level artwork by working on sketches that I have drawn or have been provided to me, and paint on 3D models and photography from screen shots, 3D renders and movies. I'm very versatile in styles; being able to match styles or create new ones depending on client needs. My artistic strengths include the understanding of composition, light, anatomy, the ability to create at a very fast speed finished looking presentation material and understanding the bottom line, weather it's dealing with budgets or strategizing for a campaign to provide a client with art work that is first class and meets and exceeds their requirements for the given project.

I graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA in 2003 with a bachelors in Illustration / Entertainment Design and have been working as a commercial artist for the last seven years.

I seek the challenges of bringing something new to the table everytime I start a project.

I'm inspired by concept artists, comic books, video games, movies, architecture and music. I love to design in all forms possible.

I have many mentors who have taught me everything I know, some whom I have been working very close with and others whom I have been studying for many years. I'm influenced by their work everyday and I use them as the standard of excellence to achieve.

My site has examples of all my skills along with links to the artists and resourses that I have mentioned above and or use as resources in my creative process. If other samples or contacts are needed please email me and I will be happy happy to provide them for you.

I try to keep my site up to date, but unfortunatly most of my current work is under NDA and will not be on the site untill it is publicly realesed.