The call for entries of  2010 Shanda Games Creative Competition “□□and Its Friends” is successful finishing. Thank you for your interest and participation! All entries are in the selection and judging period. Who will win the Wacom Cintiq 21UX? Please keep focusing!

During these days, we invited 8 excellent artists, show their works for this competition, and sincerely hope that they will give you some help for further your creation career!

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Information of 8 excellent artists:

Haitao Su

Introduction: Haitao Su has been in the character design, cartoon and illustration fields for nearly 20 year; he is with rich experience and has created many well-known cartoon images. Currently, he is focusing on cartoon character concept design with his own team for clients worldwide.
“Superior drawing skills does raise the character image, though the key to a creative work is actually relies on the artistic accumulation of an artist. The image of one character is in the directb proportion of the designer’s enthusiasm and obsession towards art design.”
More experience and point of view are shared in Game Character Design written by Haitao Su, http://blog.163.com/casper_163/blog/static/3399701220110910378125/

More works of Haitao Su:
http://www.suhaitao.com
http://www.leewiart.com/space/6552

Weiye Yin

Introduction: Weiye Yin acts as oil painter and CG artist. His CG works were firstly released internationally since 2000, in 2004, his works were selected by RAPH，afterwards, the works were shown at CGTALK, 3dtotal, Cgchannel and Mattepainting. In the end of 2004, Weiye Yin assisted Mr. Song Guangbo to organize Hot Spot Tracking - 3ds max Practical Skills, meanwhile, his works were selected by Autodesk to be listed in the official tutorial as 3DS MAX samples. Works of Mr. Yin were also published in elemental, Expose, Painter, Exotique etc, and he was awarded the Master Award at Expose 5, moreover, his works were also shown at ZBrush official gallery as marketing advertisements. In the end of 2008, his tutorial was included in the Digital Art Masters: Volume 4, and all works made by Painter were bought out by Corel as sales advertisements and samples for the product. In 2009, Mr. Yin took part in Painter 11 testing work, and links of related works were integrated in Painter 11 final product. In the same year, UK magazine 3DCreative made an interview with Weiye Yin. Currently, Mr. Yin is now the art director of a world famous game project, and serves game giants such as EA and 2K etc.

More works of Weiye Yin:
http://www.franc-art.com/
http://www.leewiart.com/space/1377

Hong Kuang

Introduction: Hong Kuang is an international renowned concept artist, illustrator and CG artist. Kuang started drawing since age of two and enrolled in CG industry at the year 2000. He sticks with things he enjoys and will never give up pursuing his dream. He worked with numerous game and film studios, domestic and oversea; his works are featured in several international CG annuals and magazines. He has made successful illustrations, concept arts, book covers for various international enterprises and publishers. Some of his works were turned into T-shirts or collectable figures. Kuang’s unique and skillful creations are popular among industry professionals.”

More works of Kuang Hong: 
http://blog.sina.com.cn/noahkuan
http://www.leewiart.com/space/4

Lei Meng

Introduction: Lei Meng is a production director of Dream ANIMATION, he has been the chief corrector of animation x-man and Stories of Seven Cities – Arctic Front Line; in the team of the “Golden Child Award” winning animation Panda Jingjing, Mr. Meng also acts as the chief corrector, the animation was then broadcasted by 29 TV stations; he has also been the concept artist and assistant director of American animation Oliver Twist; chief concept artist of animation Chinese Zodiac, chief concept artist of China of Disney OVA The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2, concept artist of Tezuka Osamu’s work Astro Boy, Character design and story board of animation One Thousand Questions of CCTV, in 2008 he acted as art director of animation Happy Running and as director of animation Galaxies Defense.

Michael Dashow

Introduction: Michael Dashow is a long-time game industry vet and professional science fiction, fantasy, and childrens' artist. His illustrations have appeared in Spectrum, Expose, ImagineFX, and Fantasy Art

Magazine. Michael has worked in the games business for close to 20 years, having spent over 7 years each as an Art Director and artist at Blizzard Entertainment ('Diablo II' and 'Diablo III') and Broderbund

Software. Currently he is the Creative Director for social games studio Kabam, and spends his spare time painting fun illustrations and developing the iPhone game Mage Maze (http://www.mage-maze.com). He

lives in Oakland, California, USA, with his wife Talia and their four-year-old son Zachary.
More works of Michael Dashow ：http://www.michaeldashow.com/
http://michaeldashow.blogspot.com/

Robin Mitchell

ntroduction: ‘ I have worked in both the animation and video game world.  For most of my 10 year career I have been lucky enough to be hired as Character Designer.’

More works of Robin Mitchell：
http://www.robinmitchell.ca
http://www.robinmitchell1972.blogspot.com/


For More Information： http://www.leewiart.com/sgccc/en/invitedartists.aspx