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Craig Mullins (born 1964) is an American digital painter, and leading international concept artist. He has created art for books, video games and films. He is often considered to be one of the first to pioneer in the field of digital painting.
Biography
Craig Mullins was born in 1964 in California and moved at the age of three to Ohio. When he was 18, he went back to California, where for several years he lived in the proximity of Los Angeles. He went to Pitzer College in Claremont, California, for two years, and then studied at Art Center College of Design to study product design and illustration. He started out as a transportation designer and got a job at Ford in Detroit. There, he discovered that his design sense was a little bit too extreme for the car industry, so he returned to Art Center to study Illustration, where he got his BFA in 1990. Since then, he has worked on many projects as concept artist, illustrator and matte painter. Mullins realized that the digital era freed him from all geographical constraints, so he moved to Hawaii, where he still lives today. He stated that he is trying to stay in as many areas of illustration as possible. His works are inspired by John Singer Sargent and Frank Frazetta.
Mullins has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.
Work
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)
- Halo Encyclopedia
- Caturdays.. The Beginning (2005 Orb edition)
- Caturdays.. The End (2005 Orb edition)
- BioShock: Rapture (2011)
- Murder of Souls (2011)
In film
He did matte paintings and concept art for these pictures:
- The Matrix Revolutions
- Armageddon
- Flubber
- Contact
- Apollo 13
- Interview with the Vampire
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- Forrest Gump
- Jurassic Park
- Tangled
- The Matrix Revolutions
In video games
He did illustrations for the following videogames:
- BioShock 2
- Marathon
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Halo 2
- Black ops 3
- Age of Empires
- Age of Empires III
- Need For Speed
- Oni
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Europa Universalis III
- Fallout 3
- Mass Effect 2
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
- Dragon's Dogma
Publications
- Expose 1 by Ballistic Publishing Art of Halo