From Lawyer to Lego Artist

Nathan Sawaya born in july 10, 1973 is a very incredible artist who started as a lawyer and after working for the lego company for a few months he left and opened his own art studio in new york city and became a sensation when it hit the news. Today he has over 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York art studio. His work is obsessively and crafted and is both beautiful and playful. Sawaya’s ability to transform LEGO bricks into something new, is incredible for the simply fact that he can make an ordinary toy used by people from all ages to the status of fine art.

Katsuhiro Otomo, Creator Of The Most Influential Anime Movie Of All Time

Katsuhiro Otomo born on April 14, 1954 in Tome, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. He has also directed some live-action films, such as the film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.

Katsuhiro Otomo was born in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture and grew up in Tome-gun. While he was in high school he was fascinated with movies, often taking a three-hour train ride during school holidays just to see them. In 1973 he graduated high school and left Miyagi, heading to Tokyo with the hopes of becoming a manga artist. On October 4, 1973, he published his first work, a manga adaptation of Prosper Merimee's short novel Mateo Falcone, titled A Gun Report. As he became more notorious later on. He started on his most well known "Akira" in manga form which eventually was offered an anime adaptation, he accepted in in the terms of him having creative control as he had experience with anime before. 

His biggest accomplishment has been the film despite not been able to cover the whole 2000 pages of the manga. It’s influence on animation in japan opened doors to more highly budget projects. Originally anime has been well known to cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. Akira broke from this trend with detailed scenes, pre-scored dialogue wherein the dialogue is recorded before the film starts production and the movements of the characters' lips are animated to match it a first for an anime production.  As well as super-fluid motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels. Unlike even the likes for live-action adaptations, Akira also had the budget to show a fully realized futuristic Tokyo.

The Man Who Brought Us Cinema's Most Recognizable Poster

Roger Kastel, a native of New York is perhaps one of the best illustrators around for creating some of cinemas most iconic posters. First been the iconic cover for the book “Jaws” which was so successful it was also used for when it came out in theaters as well as the posters for “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” and "Doc Savage". He started his career in high school. After serving during the Korean War in the Navy, he returned home and became a professional freelance artist working on many types of jobs like storyboards, mechanicals and layouts. By 1970's and illustrated over 1000 pictures for many publishers, he was already very well recognized and worked for the big publishers. To make things even bigger for him, when he was assigned to do the cover for the novel Jaws, his work was made into such a success that they use it for the poster as well. Making it one of the most iconic images in cinema ever created and even 40 years later, it's still well known. 

Amano, Illustrating Japan's Iconic Heroes and it's Final Fantasy

Yoshitaka Amano (July 28, 1952) is a Japanese artist who has worked as a designer, illustrator and theater and film scenic designer and costume designer. But he more famously known as the artist who designed many anime superheroes like Tekkama, chasshern and Gatchaman (known here as G force or battle of the planets) and the one who designed many of the original final fantasy covers and characters.

Amano was born in Shizuoka, Japan. As a young teenager, he was fascinated with drawing. In 1967, he began working in the animation department of Tatsunoko Productions. His first project was for the Speed Racer anime franchise. He was a character designer for anime shows such as Time Bokan, Gatchaman, Tekkaman, and Honeybee Hutch. Later on he move to design covers for the famous game franchise final fantasy. His work is very unique as it blends classic Japanese art with a very surrealist take on each and every character he creates and puts them in a world where everything feels is from a fantasy world.