Tales: The Art of Christian Alzmann - Paperback

by Christian Alzmann (Author)

tales: ('teilz) a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or story. Whether it's one Christian has read or one that has been developing in his head, the tale has always been one of his biggest inspirations. Tales: The Art of Christian Alzmann is Christian's first book collecting his digital paintings and sketches as well as his traditional pencil sketches. He also walks the reader through his digital painting process using Photoshop and Painter.

Author Biography

It was seeing Star Wars at the age of five that first inspired Christian to draw. The years following would be filled with drawings of spaceships, animals, creatures, and images from the many science-fiction/fantasy movies he watched.

Years later he graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and was hired by Industrial Light & Magic to work in its art department. At ILM he has worked on many film projects, including Star Wars Episode ll: Attack of the Clones, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.

Now a Senior VFX Art Director, Christian is still having fun working in film, games, and publications.