Craig Mullins
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Craig Mullins (1964) is an American-born concept artist specializing in book and video game illustration and film matte paintings.
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[edit] Biography
Craig Mullins was born in 1964 in California and moved at the age of 3 to Ohio. When 18 he went back to California where for several years he lived in the proximity of Los Angeles. Today he lives in Hawaii. Mullins was classically trained (attending Pitzer College of Claremont, California (where he stayed for around 2 years) and the Art Center College of Design) but was introduced to digital art with the release of Dubner PaintBox in 1987. Mullins has indicated that he now creates his images almost exclusively in the digital environment — using Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop on a Dell workstation from his home studio in Hawaii. His works are inspired by John Singer Sargent and Frank Frazetta[citation needed].
[edit] Work
[edit] In books
He did book covers for the following books:
- When Gravity Fails (2005 Orb edition)
- A Fire in the Sun (2005 Orb edition)
- The Exile Kiss (2005 Orb edition)
[edit] In film
He did matte paintings for these pictures:
- The Matrix Revolutions
- Armageddon
- Flubber
- Contact
- Apollo 13
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- Forrest Gump
[edit] In videogames
He did illustrations for the following videogames:
- Marathon
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Halo 2
- Age of Empires
- Age of Empires III
- Need for Speed
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Europa Universalis III
- Fallout 3
[edit] Publications
- Expose 1 by Ballistic Publishing Art of Halo
[edit] External links
- Craig Mullins official site
- Mullins: Revising Golongrias Picture (tutorial)
- Craig Mullins at the Internet Movie Database