Francisco Vegas Molina

Born in 1992 in Málaga, Spain.

Illustrator, concept artist, art director

Summary

Francisco is an audiovisual and fantasy enthusiast who develops his passion in different fields. He has worked as illustrator on the most recent book of George RR Martin, Elio M. García and Linda Antonsson The Rise of the Dragon published by Penguin Random House. He also made the illustrated Spanish version of The Last Argument of Kings for the British author Joe Abercrombie and all cover artwork for The First Law trilogy in Spanish, of the same author, all of them published by Alianza Editorial - Runas. He has also worked with The Broken Binding in the most recent edition of Scott Lynch’s the Gentleman Bastard sequence by making the endpapers of the three books, as well as for the special edition of Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie. He has also worked as illustrator for the 10th anniversary of The World of Ice and Fire, commissioned by Elio M. García and Linda Antonsson from Westeros.org.

As art director, he worked at 3D and mockup department in Freepik Company.

He is also expanding his knowledge in production design and art direction through the academic research on his PhD doctoral thesis at Málaga University (Spain).

Education

PhD Doctoral thesis on Production design

Master on modeling of creatures and characters 3D for cinema and videogames (Animum Creativity Advanced School)

Master on Audiovisual Creation and Scenics arts (Málaga University)

Master on Motion graphics and VFX (Animum Creativity Advanced School)

Main Software skills

Adobe Photoshop

Autodesk Maya

Zbrush

Adobe Substance Painter

Arnold

Adobe After Effects