CSUF Grad Chris Miller Depicts WWII Desolation for EA's Medal of Honor Airborne

Current graduate student in Illustration, Chris Miller, keeps a tight schedule between school and work. His art job at Entertainment Arts, now the home of several CSUF art graduates, involves painting concept backgrounds and scenery for EA's latest game installment of Medal of Honor Airborne. On the game's official blog, Miller's Art Director, Justin Thomas, emphasizes design themes familiar to our Illustration students: silhouette (Thomas calls it "shape language" as he applies silhouette to cityscapes), storytelling through background scenery ("contextual history"), "believable characters," and focal points ("visual rhythm through localized detail"). By sharing his point of view as a working Art Director on a real project, Thomas demonstrates how these concepts work in his field. And if reading the insight of a pro isn't your thing, check out these amazing background digital paintings and studies by Chris Miller anyway (yet another painting and another set of studies)!