SUTU (Australia)

The Art Department | World Tour

An artist transcending mediums, genres and styles, Sutu captures audiences with his innovative  visual story-telling techniques. He designed virtual concerts for the likes of John Legend, Alison Wonderland and Dillon Francis, created numerous AR, VR and XR experiences, interactive comics but also VR art for feature films among others. Unique not only in style but also in concepts, Sutu is a true digital pioneer.

At The Art Department | World Tour Playgrounds director Leon van Rooij will interview Sutu (aka Stuart Campell) about projects like Neomad, These Memories Won’t Last, Mind at War, Prosthetic Reality / Eyejack and his recent VR/ AR projects.

This artist uses art and technology in new ways to tell stories. He has been commissioned by the likes of Marvel, Google and Disney to create VR art for properties such as Doctor Strange and Ready Player One.

Sutu has also created three VR documentaries; Inside Manus for SBS, Mind at War for Ryot Films and The Battle of Hamel for the Australian War Memorial.

He holds a Honorary Doctorate of Digital Media from Central Queensland University, is a 2017 Sundance Fellow and is the co-founder of EyeJack an Augmented Reality company.

Confirmed artists

MEGAN BRAIN & SHANNON TINDLE (USA)
character design on Kubo and the Two Strings
interview
LOISH (the Netherlands)
character designer for LEGO, Guerrilla Games, Amazon
interview
FELICIE HAYMOZ (Switzerland)
character designer on Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Isle of Dogs
interview
RUAN JIA (China)
concept artist on World of Warcraft, Diablo III, the Halo franchise
interview, panel 'Asian takes on visual storytelling'
BEATRICE BLUE (Spain)
illustrator & vis dev for DreamWorksTV, Procreate, Nichelodeon
ask me anything
JAMA JURABAEV (United Kingdom)
concept artist for Ready Player One, The Mandalorian
interview
ARMAND SERRANO (Philippines)
art-director & production designer for Hotel Transylvania, Big Hero 6, Olaf's Frozen Adventure
interview
ANDREW BAKER (New Zealand)
creature & concept artist for The BFG, The Hobbit trilogy, Ghost in the Shell
interview
AAYNA VINAYA (India)
illustrator & art director
artist talk
DANIEL CLARKE (South Africa)
illustrator & character designer for Netflix, National Geographic Kids, Nickelodeon
interview
TAN ZHI HUI (Malaysia)
concept artist & illustrator for Amazon Games, Supercell, Epic Games
artist talk, demo
2veinte (Argentina)
design studio, independent shorts 100 years Armenian Genocide, Wild & Woolly
artist talk
SUTU (Australia)
XR artist These Memories Won’t Last, Prosthetic Reality / Eyejack
interview
AMIR ZAND (Turkey)
concept artist Axis Animation, DreamworksTV, Quantic Dream
panel 'Middle Eastern artists in a Western dominated industry'
LOBO (Brazil & USA)
design studio Day One, Threehouse
interview, panel 'State of the industry - South America'
YANGTIAN LI (China)
concept artist on Call of Duty: Black Ops IV and Black Ops III
interview, panel 'Asian takes on visual storytelling'
HICHAM HABCHI (Morocco/USA)
concept artist & creative lead at Riot Games
chat and doodles
ANAND RADHAKRISHNAN (India)
illustrator
interview
9B COLLECTIVE (USA)
black-owned concept art studio: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Mandalorian
panel 'The rise and success of black creatives’
AYRAN OBERTO (Venezuela)
digital painter for Unite Image, Zombie Studio
demo
ABE TARAKY (Afghanistan)
senior concept artist at Sony Santa Monica Studios
interview
GODWIN AKPAN (Nigeria)
concept artist Disney and Kugali, Triggerfish Games
interview
FARAZ SHANYAR (Iran)
concept artis The Lion King, Aladdin, Machinegames
panel 'Middle Eastern artists in a Western dominated industry'
JOHN NEVAREZ (USA)
film & story artist on Coco, Inside Our, Cars 2
pictionary with giants
PATRICK O’KEEFE (USA)
art-director Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
pictionary with giants
NICK HIATT (USA)
concept artist on Destiny, Call of Duty, Halo
pictionary with giants
WILL COYNER (USA)
concept artist for EA, Disney Interactive, WB Games
pictionary with giants
LOGAN PRESHAW (Australia)
concept artist Ark 2, League of Legends video games, Junkernauts
artist talk, demo
JACKIE NGUYEN (Australia)
illustrator, character design for Passion Pictures, Procreate, Art of Play Games
demo
HARRY MACK (USA)
freestyle rap
LYNN CHEN (China)
vis dev Warner Bros
panel 'Asian takes on visual storytelling'
OUR HOSTS
CRISTIAN CHIHAIA (Romania)
concept artist & art director at Ubisoft
panel 'State of the industry - Eastern Europe'
MARKO PRPIC ZETS (Croatia)
digital artist & IFCC festival director
panel 'State of the industry - Eastern Europe'
MARK MOLNAR (Hungary)
concept artist & art director for LucasFilm, Time Warner, Netflix, MGM
panel 'State of the industry - Eastern Europe'

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