Brian Matyas is a senior concept artist within Lucasfilm Concept Design Department.
Biography[]
Matyas illustrated the loading screens for Star Wars: Uprising.
Brian Matyas' earliest contributions to the Star Wars universe were the creation of character designs and loading screen art for the mobile game Star Wars: Uprising.[3] He was later recruited by Doug Chiang to be part of Lucasfilm[4] Concept Design Department for the first season of the Disney+ show The Mandalorian,[5] and continued in this position for the second season,[6] as well as The Book of Boba Fett[7] and Obi-Wan Kenobi.[2] He also created concepts for characters for Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser.[8]
Sources[]
"Chapter 3: The Sin" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)- "Chapter 5: The Gunslinger" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Chapter 6: The Prisoner" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Chapter 7: The Reckoning" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Chapter 8: Redemption" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Chapter 9: The Marshal" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Mando Download: "Chapter 9: The Marshal" on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Chapter 11: The Heiress" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Mando Download: "Chapter 11: The Heiress" on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Chapter 13: The Jedi" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "Chapter 15: The Believer" Episode Guide on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Mando Download: "Chapter 15: The Believer" on StarWars.com (backup link)
- The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
- Star Wars: The Mandalorian: Guide to Season One
- The Book of Boba Fett Cargo Hold: "Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land" on StarWars.com (backup link)
- The Book of Boba Fett Cargo Hold: "Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm" on StarWars.com (backup link)
- The Book of Boba Fett Cargo Hold: "Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian" on StarWars.com (backup link)
- The Book of Boba Fett Cargo Hold: "Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor" on StarWars.com (backup link)
- "The Anti-Hero's Journey" — Star Wars Insider 217
Notes and references[]
- ↑
Brian Matyas (Brian Matyas) on ArtStation (backup link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
Obi-Wan Kenobi — "Part I"
- ↑ Now This is How You Do Star Wars Art by Plunkett, Luke on Kotaku (June 4, 2015) (archived from the original on August 11, 2017)
- ↑ Interview with Brian Matyas, designer of the Heavy Infantry Mandalorian by István, Kádas on ziro.hu (November 27, 2019): "When Doug Chiang asked me to join the Lucasfilm art department to design characters for The Mandalorian, I couldn't have been more thrilled. It was also an incredible challenge to design them for an entire series of content (I'll have lots of character designs to post in the future). I also did many keyframe illustrations for the show. (…) More to come!" (content now obsolete; archived from the original on November 27, 2019)
- ↑
The Mandalorian — "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian"
- ↑ The Mandalorian — "Chapter 9: The Marshal"
- ↑ The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land"
- ↑ The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
External links[]
- Brian Matyas (Brian Matyas) on ArtStation
- Brian Matyas (@brianmatyas) on Instagram
- Brian Matyas on LinkedIn
- Brian Matyas (@brianmatyasart) on Twitter
- Brian Matyas at the Internet Movie Database
- The art of Brian Matyas on Iamag
- Brian Matyas Concept Artist on Nuts Computer Graphics
- Creating iconic characters - Brian Matyas Interview on the Art Department Podcast YouTube channel (April 27, 2021) (backup link)
- May the 4th Be With You with Brian Matyas on the Gnomon YouTube channel (May 4, 2022) (backup link)
