REVELATIONS:The ConceptArt.Org Art and Design Workshop is BURNING UP this Jan 4,5,6,7

[Jason Manley]

The moment you've all been waiting for....

Conceptart.org & Massive Black Inc.
with Special Guest Sponsors
present


REVELATIONS: The North American Art and Design Workshop: An event of 2D and Design Inspiration and a Learning Evolution Which will FUEL YOUR CREATIVE FIRES this winter and beyond!
JANUARY 4, 5, 6, 7
SEATTLE, WA USA

A special weekend event unlike any workshop to date.....The event is Friday through Monday with an earth quaking party FRIDAY NIGHT!! Though the party is just fuel for the fire.

We're packing a punch this time in an evolved workshop of epic proportions as we bring you
the entire Massive Black team and a gathering of international artists as well as local talent from the major hub of creativity in the Pacific Northwest.

We're pleased to announce that we're partnering with some highly respected sponsors
(soon to be announced) and we've got an amazing space and AV team to work with.
We're looking at having some new very special guests this time around, as well as favorites you'll love to see again.

Just in time for the winter vacations, come break the ice and warm your creative heart,
watching some of the top creatives in the industry do what they do best.
Be inspired for the year to come and see how many personal frontiers you can break.

We are not making snow angels here JOIN US FOR ART......


Moby Francke- Concept Designer -Team Fortress- Valve Software
Lorne Lanning- Founder/CEO Oddworld
Kenneth Scott- Art Director - id software
Aaron Lemay- Art Director - Bungie
Daniel Dociu- Art Director- ArenaNet
Stephan Martiniere- Visual Director- Midway
Sparth- Senior Concept Artist - id software
J.E. Sawyer - Lead Designer- Obsidian Entertainment
Kolby Jukes- Senior 3d Artist- Freelance
Matt Charlesworth- Senior 3d Artist - Radical
Ian Joyner- Senior 3d Artist- Freelance
Khang Le- Senior Concept Artist- Project Offset
Marko Djurdjevic-Senior Concept Artist/Cover Illustrator- Marvel
El Coro- Senior Art DIrector Massive Black
Noxizmad-Senior Concept Artist-Massive Black
Aleksi-Freelance Concept Artist/Comics/RPG Illustrator
Jason Chan-Concept Artist-Massive Black
Dan Milligan- Storyboard Artist -300
Wes Burt-Senior Character Artist-Massive Black
Android-Visionary Artist-Massive Black/ConceptArt.Org
Todd Lockwood-RPG Illustrator
Pete Konig-Concept/Model/Texture/Animation/Sculpture Guru MB/Tippett Studio
Brom-Fine Artist/Illustrator
Michael Hussar-Fine Artist
Kevin Llewellyn-Fine Artist
Shawn Barber-Fine Artist/Illustrator
Jamie Jones-Concept Artist ArenaNet
Matthew Barrett-Concept Artist ArenaNet
Doug Williams-Senior Concept Artist-ArenaNet
SteakTron-Senior Concept Artist-Massive Black
Rich Doble-Senior Concept Artist-Massive Black
Nick Constantine-Senior Concept Artist-Massive Black
Sam Brown-Concept Artist-Massive Black
Carl Dobsky-Concept Artist/Fine Artist/Professor-Massive Black/CA Atelier
James Kei-Senior Concept Artist-Massive Black
Jason Manley-President Massive Black/ConceptArt.Org
Chris Hatala-Animation Director-Massive Black
Kevin Chen-Freelance Concept/Fine Artist/Figure Professor
Anthony Francisco- Lead Concept Artist-Project Offset
Marc Taro Holmes-Senior Concept Artist- Sega
Jason Felix- Senior Concept Artist/Animator Flagship Studios
The Black Frog - Senior Concept Artist/Art Director- Freelance
Mathias Verhasselt - Concept Artist - Blizzard Entertainment
Dorje Bellbrook- Concept Artist- Bungie
Isaac Hanaford- Concept Artist - Bungie
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more info to come....

[KLEVR]

*face melts* Holy Shit! *applies spare face* Everyone that can should try to make to this event. I missed it last year and regretted it so much. Who has the time to live with regret? Anyone? *crickets...*

$500 if you sign up before Nov. 1
$600 if sign up after,
Four days of intensive art study with immensly talented instructors, tackling basic fundamentals to more advanced techniques among many 2d graphic mediums. An opportunity to make new friends, get new ideas, and help refining your own. Be the envy of your friends, be more attractive to members of the opposite sex, or the same for that matter! (Giggity!)

And check out the instructor list from when i last checked:

Moby Francke- Concept Designer -Team Fortress- Valve Software
Jeremy Bennett-Concept Designer- Valve Software (formerly Weta Digital)
Dan Milligan- Storyboard Artist -300
Lorne Lanning- Oddworld
Aleksi-Freelance Concept Artist/Comics/RPG Illustrator
Sparth- id software
Khang Le- Project Offset
Marko Djurdjevic-Marvel
El Coro- MB
Noxizmad-MB
Jason Chan-MB
Wes Burt-MB
Android-MB
Todd Lockwood-RPG Illustrator
Pete Konig-MB/Tippett Studio
Brom-Fine Artist/Illustrator
Michael Hussar-Fine Artist
Kevin Llewellyn-Fine Artist
Shawn Barber-Fine Artist/Illustrator
Daniel Dociu-ArenaNet
Jamie Jones-ArenaNet
Matthew Barrett-ArenaNet
Doug Williams-ArenaNet
SteakTron-MB
Rich Doble-MB
Nick Constantine-MB
Sam Brown-MB
Carl Dobsky-MB
James Kei-MB
Jason Manley-MB
Chris Hatala-MB
Kevin Chen-Freelance Concept/Fine Artist/Professor
Anthony Francisco- Lead Concept Artist- Project Offset
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*liquidy sound* Shit! There goes my face again... BE THERE OR BE SQUARE! *goes off to look for another face*

[Nerahla]

Is it like a convention, where there are tracks of lessons and we can choose which to take?

[DoubleXdragoN]

Awww, damn! In Seattle? D: I can't afford travelling so far!
I'm not gonna talk about the sign-up prices.. >.>''' Godsdammit! XD

But hot damn, that is so awesome... I hope everyone who goes there wets their pants when meeting all the big men of industry. ;D

[Wibben]

This sounds fantastic!

How does these workshops work? Are there presentations or workstations? I've never been to your workshops, but I have always wanted to go.

Will there be more inf coming on what will be going on there?

Sounds awsome =)

[Jason Manley]

there is a video top right corner of the last event...each one is slightly different but i think you will get the idea!

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_...?story_id=4003


Jason

[Jason Manley]

this show has 3 categories.

1. spoken presentations/demonstrations with experts in each area covered
2. hands on instruction (when the instructors are working directly with the students.
3. pure demonstration (this will be a special portion of the event as there will be more artists simultaneously demonstrating where you can see them all working, than ever before.)

It is a mixture of structure and creative chaos. It is inspiration and motivation. It is focused on foundations but has all the info needed for artists of all levels to take away more than they hoped to.

The rest is a surprise.


Jason

[Rabid]

Going to be haunting the footsteps of Kevin Llewellyn and Hussar from demonstrations to portfolio review....by Sun they will be telling me, "God Peanut havn't I answered enough for you yet?!"

[Justin.]

So the NAME of the event is REVELATIONS: The North American Art and Design Workshop? Or is Revelations just for the revealing phase...

[S!R]

I think that would be a safe assumption due to the various threads referring to the workshop as such.

[Jason Manley]

Originally Posted by Justin Oaksford

So the NAME of the event is REVELATIONS: The North American Art and Design Workshop? Or is Revelations just for the revealing phase...

Justin you have far better things to do right?....get that pencil to the paper kiddo. Mucho work ahead of you before the workshop. I will have a talk with David Levy if I have to.

[James Kei]

Originally Posted by Jason Manley

Justin you have far better things to do right?....get that pencil to the paper kiddo. Mucho work ahead of you before the workshop. I will have a talk with David Levy if I have to.

Yeah, 2500 posts in 1 year= too much time spent on this damn forum.

[Jason Manley]

yeah....all the posting useless banter reminds me of that other guy that used to post instead of making art or being productive...pixeldragoon something. Whatever happened to that guy?

[Carnifex]

Originally Posted by DoubleXdragoN

Awww, damn! In Seattle? D: I can't afford travelling so far!
I'm not gonna talk about the sign-up prices.. >.>''' Godsdammit! XD

But hot damn, that is so awesome... I hope everyone who goes there wets their pants when meeting all the big men of industry. ;D

*cough* coming over from austria. not to bash on your financial situation,but lemme tell you,it is so worth it. see if you can get parents or friends to sponsor abit,it's what i do

[Evil_Sloth]

Holy shit that line up looks like the greatest line up... ever!

Seriously thinking about selling my car to go to this.
Maybe I can float to work on inspiration...

[drd]

It's all amazing, but it's all of the way across the country, and I can't even drive yet.

*big sigh*

[David Kassan]

This sounds like an amazing experience, not just a place to learn new techniques , but an opportunity to pick brains develop and be influenced directly by some amazing artists. Whats really superb is that there are so many different styles, ideas and approaches represented, it really gives the student a chance to sort of cherry pick what it is that they are inspired by in each artist, its this a la cart approach that really helps to define an individuals personal voice, which can sometimes be overwhelmed when a student studies with only one instructor. You ConceptArt creators are some smart bastards. Cheers!

[Jason Manley]

Originally Posted by drd

It's all amazing, but it's all of the way across the country, and I can't even drive yet.

*big sigh*

that's what the airplane is for...we have plenty of younger students at the events and seattle has some of the best public transportation in the country. but alas...there is always next year or the year after. Though a lineup like this will probably never happen again, considering it never happened before either.


jm

[Interceptor]

Originally Posted by Evil_Sloth

Holy shit that line up looks like the greatest line up... ever!

Seriously thinking about selling my car to go to this.Maybe I can float to work on inspiration...

Ha! You would'nt be the first to have done so

[Jason Manley]

Originally Posted by David Kassan

This sounds like an amazing experience, not just a place to learn new techniques , but an opportunity to pick brains develop and be influenced directly by some amazing artists. Whats really superb is that there are so many different styles, ideas and approaches represented, it really gives the student a chance to sort of cherry pick what it is that they are inspired by in each artist, its this a la cart approach that really helps to define an individuals personal voice, which can sometimes be overwhelmed when a student studies with only one instructor. You ConceptArt creators are some smart bastards. Cheers!

Yeah, that is part of the point. People will have the opportunity to make decisions about who they want influencing their work, which is rarely the option at work or in school. That being said, sometimes it is those who you least expect who provide the breakthrough that you never saw coming. I can say, that due to the structure of the event, it will be possible to at least peek at and see all the instructors working so you can make that decision.

We have three tracks and two categories currently. The categories are Art and Design.

Spoken Demonstration/Presentation - For example, Lorne Lanning is doing a wonderful talk on creativity. Considering he has led perhaps one of the most creative companies in the industry for the past decade, it should be a good one). Coro, Dan Milligan, Android, Marko, and many others will be speaking, of course. The spoken program will be announced in a couple weeks. Stay tuned. A few of these talks will be lecture based, but all will have plenty of digital imagery or demonstrations happening to keep things exciting. Those who learn by being told and shown will have the opportunity to do so.

Pure Demonstration - Participants will watch the pros as they are focused purely on the work. Ask occasional questions...but the point of this is to let the instructors focus on what they do best...create. It will be up to the students to analyze and deconstruct the methods for some of these demonstrations (Noxizmad, for example who says more with his brush than any words he could say, ever would). Those who learn best by watching, will be able to take advantage of this. Given the intelligence of the attendees from the industry and the student base around here, I expect everyone will get something great out of this.

Hands on instruction. Students will have the option to participate in this portion of the program and recieve hands on assistance from the top professionals in each area of study. We are doing a head drawing class, for example. The instructors will be of both traditional and digital background, so those working on laptops or in sketchbooks will get to have the big guns helping them hit the targets. Personally, I always learned best in this way, which is why we are including this portion for the event. We are accommodating all 3 ways people learn art and design. Seeing, hearing, and doing...

This is going to be our most organized event to date but even the organization is structured to allow for the creative chaos that makes these events special. How things are structured is a surprise. It is a new and highly evolved approach, that much I can say. It is going to be friggen intense.


Jason

[InvertedChalupa]

its'a gonna be sweeeet... I'm pretty stoked

[Icon]

Holy crap!

I don't how yet, but mark my words, i'll be there!!!

[Benjamen Christ]

Fucken sweet! I just got my ticket!

[hideandseek]

Originally Posted by Jason Manley

yeah....all the posting useless banter reminds me of that other guy that used to post instead of making art or being productive...pixeldragoon something. Whatever happened to that guy?

no clue, he used to post on another community i'm apart of based on Game modification and total conversions. I don't see him there anymore either


Anyway Jason, looking forward to meeting you and the others at MB. Thats one hell of a line up. Seriously want to try to make this one, but GDC is the following month and I might have to be there as well with the guys from work. Anyway I'll have to see, this one looks as if it shouldn't be missed

[Texahol]

jason, you're a pretty good salesman.

and giving my wallet an inferiority complex to boot.

any word on hotels/hostel prices/locations yet?

[zao75231]

Hey Jason,

Could I pay at the door like a friend of mine did at the Insomania workshop?

Can't wait to see you guys again and looking forward to meeting the new artist's and my favorites

[chaosrocks]

heheheheh pixeldragoon..... giggle

the this Justin guy is very very similar, andbit more motivated, and making progress faster though....
I'll probably get my ticket today

[Jason Manley]

gdc??? no offense to gdc, as its the best business event in the states, but seriously, on an artistic level, it is a void that is months away. That is the whole purpose of our event...the industry needs a big wakeup call creatively. We are here to help shake em all outta bed...and that includes me.

TIME TO GET UP!!!! ...at least thats what my lil sis used to say!

There currently is the option to pay at the door, however, that is only because we have not sold out yet. Given the quality of instructor list, and the limited space, I imagine it will be sold out around xmas.


Jason

[Noë]

I was thinking about going, but my boyfriend planned a surprise vacation those days (meaning I know when but not where we are going)
So I guess there's always a next time.. And anyways it will be WAY cheaper to go to a european one for me.

You guys seem to get every workshop better than the one before..
Awesome!
I'll be checking the threads here for pictures, videos, notes, everything! ^^

Love
Marleen.

[JellevdVegt]

will there be a european workshop? i think it will be worth it. i think alot of artists at CA are from europe, so plz, organize a workshop in europe!