Atilgan Asikuzun

Atilgan Asikuzun

Senior Concept Artist, illustrator

Senior Concept Artist, illustrator. / 17 yrs

Reading, United Kingdom

Hire Me

Bad Cat (2019)

Concept Artist

Arif V 216 (2018)

Visual Effects Artist

Stuck with You! (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

The Class 4 (2015)

Matte Painter

A.R.O.G. (2008)

Senior illustrator

RuneScape (2001)

For 16 years I've collaborated as a concept artist/ illustrator/ matte painter for 7 feature films and my last job was to be a sole concept artist for a video game for nearly 2 years.

I'm working as a Senior illustrator for Jagex now.
Work History
  • Senior Concept Artist / Character designer / illustrator

    Freelance

    March 2019 - Present
    Reading, England, United Kingdom

    •Produced matte paintings for a Vodaphone ad.
    •Produced storyboards for ad pitches.
    •Produced concept art for an ad.
    •Produced character designs for an animated film pitch.

  • Senior Illustrator

    Jagex

    July 2021 - May 2022
    Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
  • Freelance Illustrator

    Jagex

    December 2020 - April 2022
  • Concept Artist, Illustrator

    Jagex

    November 2020 - February 2021
    Reading, United Kingdom

    Working on the Runescape, both new and old.

  • Character Designer

    SANDBOXX Studio

    September 2020 - September 2020

    ● Designed animal character variations for an advertisement.

  • Matte painter

    Sinefekt

    August 2020 - August 2020

    ● Structured a city matte painting back plate in photoshop for an advertisement.

  • Character Designer / illustrator

    Mynet

    June 2020 - July 2020

    ● Designed characters and produced illustrations for an upcoming mobile game.

  • Texture Artist

    Spov

    May 2020 - May 2020

    ● Produced character textures for the project.

  • Senior Concept Artist & illustrator

    Red Disk Games

    September 2017 - May 2019
    Istanbul, Turkey

    •Responsible for the artistic style of the game, from directions of the
    director.
    •Designed every character, sheets and move sets, also buildings, props,
    vehicles, weapons, item icons, target scenes, NPC illustrations, UI revisions, and
    splash pages.
    •Textured every asset that I've designed previously
    • Supervising model process ensuring good quality

  • Senior Concept Artist / Creature Designer, Matte painter

    1000 Volt

    October 2015 - September 2017
    Istanbul, Turkey

    •Produced Concept art, Matte paints, creature design and concept arts for 2 feature movies as a
    freelancer.
    •Produced creature design, creature model and concept art for an arthouse film.

  • Visual Development Artist

    Animascope Animation Studio

    January 2015 - October 2015
    Istanbul, Turkey

    •Responsible for concept arts, visual designs, Background paintings for an animation pitch.
    •Responsible for photo manipulations for advertisements.

  • Lead texture,matte artist/ Concept artist

    anima istanbul

    September 2013 - September 2014

    • Produced concept art
    • Textured assets
    • Supervising model process ensuring good quality

  • Concept artist/Illustrator/matt painter

    Digiflame

    March 2012 - March 2013

    Responsible for;

    * Concept arts, Character designs, Character sheets.
    * Matte paintings for Tv series, such as muhtesem yuzyil
    * Following production process, supervising 3d models produced from my character sheets.

  • Concept Artist/Illustrator

    Imaj

    2009 - 2011
    istanbul

    Advertisements, 1 feature movie, generated creature and environment concepts and backgrounds

  • Freelance

    Freelance

    January 2006 - April 2008

    Texture artist and modeler at 'Eti: Negro: Kabus' (2006)

    Concept Artist /modeler/texturer in a cinema film named 'karagözle hacivat neden öldürüldü' for a genie. (2006)
    * Generated creature concept.
    * Created Creature model.
    * Textured creature model.

    Illustrator on the TV series called 'Kabuslar Evi' Part 'kaçan Firsatlar' (2006)

    * Generated monster head concepts.
    * Created monster head illustrations.

    Illustrator and modeler on a video klip for nil karaibrahimgil's 'Peri' (2006)

    * Generated background illustration.
    * Created tree and fruit model.
    * Generated texture for fruit and tree.

    Illustrator and texturer on a teaser trailer named : Arog (2008)

    * Generated creature concept.
    * Created Texture for the creature model.

    Storyboard and character concepts and textures on a TV advertisement called: Gol'at (2008)

    * Generated storyboard.
    * Generated character facial,anatomical,uniformal Concepts both human and humanoid robots.
    * Created character and human textures.

    Matte painter on a Movie named : Arog (2008)

    * Generated matte concepts.
    * Created matte paint.

  • Illustrator

    anima istanbul

    2007 - 2007

    character illustrations

Education
  • bachelor in cartoon and animation

    Anadolu University

    1998 - 2003