Craig Elliott

American illustrator

Craig Elliott
Born	(1971-07-13) July 13, 1971 (age 52)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	artist

Craig Elliott (born July 13, 1971) is an illustrator, visual development artist and layout artist who works in the animation industry. After graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1996, he went on to work on numerous films for Disney Feature Animation, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon and Fox Animation Studios. Craig also exhibits his fine art illustrations and paintings at both Wondercon and Comic-Con International as well as occasionally teaching at the Art Center College of Design and Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

Books and comics

Craig has painted comic book and cover artwork for Dark Horse Comics,^[1] appeared in various art periodicals such as Spectrum,^[2] Erotic Fantasy Art^[3] and The World's Greatest Erotic Art of Today^[4] as well as self-publishing his projects through the Aristata imprint.^[5]

In 2008, Craig was invited to contribute a piece to the Totoro Forest Project,^[6] a fundraising exhibition/auction to support the national trust Totoro Forest Foundation that was founded by Oscar Award winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.

Works

Rise of the Argonauts (2008) (Video Game) (concept artist)

Filmography

Hercules (1997) (visual development artist)
Mulan (1998) (key layout artist)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) (visual development artist)
Treasure Planet (2002) (visual development artist/key assistant layout artist)
Shark Tale (2004) (visual development artist)
Father of the Pride (2004) (visual development artist)
Home on the Range (2004) (key assistant layout artist)
Flushed Away (2006) (visual development artist)
Bee Movie (2007) (visual development artist)
Enchanted (2007) (layout artist)
The Princess and the Frog (2009) (visual development artist)
The Spook's Apprentice (2009) (visual development artist)
The Penguins of Madagascar (2009) (visual development artist)
Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil (2010) (visual development artist)
Puss in Boots (2011) (visual development artist)
The Lorax (2012) (visual development artist)
Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) (visual development artist)
Seventh Son (2014) (Concept artist)

References

^ "Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor: "Turnpike" adaption, Max Alan Collins; art, Craig Elliott".
^ "Spectrum". spectrumfantasticart.com.
^ "Erotic Fantasy Art – Duddlebug, Aly Fell – Hardcover".
^ Erotic Signature Archived 2008-09-13 at archive.today
^ Aristata Publishing Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ Totoro Forest Project Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine