Name Doug Chiang Role Film Production Designer | Books Robota, Mechanika | |
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Nominations VES Award for Best Effects Art Direction in a Motion Picture Similar People Steve Starkey, Ken Ralston, Tom Woodruff Jr, Rick Carter, Jack Rapke | ||
The art of doug chiang star wars edition
Doug Chiang (Chinese: 江 道格, born 16 February 1962) is a Taiwanese American film designer and artist. He was born in Yilan County, Taiwan, and grew up in the United States.
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- The art of doug chiang star wars edition
- Doug chiang production design workshop pt 01
- Career
- Awards
- Filmography
- References
Doug chiang production design workshop pt 01
Career
Chiang studied film at UCLA and industrial design at the College for Creative Studies. During the late 1980s, he worked at various production studios including Rhythm and Hues. Chiang eventually joined Industrial Light & Magic as a creative director where he worked on films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Forrest Gump. During the late 1990s, Chiang served as design director for Lucasfilm on Star Wars Episode I and Star Wars Episode II. Afterwards, he was a production designer on Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express. Outside of film, he collaborated with author Orson Scott Card on an illustrated science fiction book called Robota.
He founded DC Studios in the year 2000 with his creation Robota as a primary project. Along with Sparx Animation Studios in Ho Chi Minh City, he created several animated shorts depicting the world of Robota in action.
In 2004, Chiang co-founded Ice Blink Studios and worked for Zemeckis on Beowulf. Ice Blink closed in 2007, becoming the core of the facility for ImageMovers Digital, a pioneering performance capture animation studio.
Recently, he has returned to Star Wars franchise as the concept artist for Star Wars: The Force Awakens as well as production designer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Awards
Chiang has won numerous awards throughout his career, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Death Becomes Her, a BAFTA for Forrest Gump, a FOCUS Award for his independent film Mental Block, a Clio Award for his work on a Malaysian Airlines commercial and The BrandLaureate Award.