Jing Zhang is an illustrator, typographer and designer from southern China and currently living in trendy London. Her infographics are exceptional, and her experiments with 3D illustrated type are very powerful. I cannot express enough how inspiring her portfolio of work is, so visit her website or Behance to drool over the rest of her portfolio.

Xavi is from Barcelona, Spain. He recently contacted The Lounge to tell us about his new works: a video game for children called ‘Monsters Band’ and a 3D illustrated book titles ‘Como dos Lunas Ilena’ (As Two Full Moons); doesn’t that sound fun? His vector graphics are well suited to children’s books, as well as editorial work. He is also an animator and creates artwork for games, multimedia and websites as well as advertising and merchandise. Visit his website for more.

I met Jaime when I was studying animation at KIAD. He was studying in Spain, but came over to England and joined our course for a few months as part of his degree. He put the whole class to shame with his incredible talent and hard work! His versatility is really impressive; he is a great character designer and animator in both 2D and 3D, he draws comics and is a natural story-teller too. He currently works at Kandor Graphics, who are definitely worth checking out and if you’d like to see more of Jaime’s work, visit his blog.

Goro was born in Japan and grew up in Germany. He studied digital production at the German Film School where he learnt a lot about the 2D and 3D film making process, from start to finish. After freelancing as a character animator and visual development in Germany, he moved to Redwood City where he currently works for PDI/Dreamworks.

Goro is a highly skilled craftsman, equally adept in traditional techniques as he is in 3D and digital painting. I particularly like the Iron Giant inspired robots doing very human things. From browsing through his website, you’ll see just how incredibly productive he is! Pop over and have a look…

Michal is a 3D animator and designer from the Czech Republic. He has a great sense of style and his 3D work is incredible. Luscious shapes with nice textures and lighting feature in his creations, whether they are blobby cartoon characters, or fully rendered realistic interiors.

See more of Michal’s talent on show at his website, or on is Dribbble page.

*Mikeinel is a self-taught illustrator based in the Philippines.

Chris Sickels aka red nose studio is a humble yet highly skilled 3D sculptural illustrator and painter. He graduated from the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

“After about 5 years of illustrating with paintings, I started to show some of my 3-D work that I had been working on the side for about 4 years. Eventually I was able to create images truer to my mind’s eye with the 3-D work and in a few years art directors started to see the potential in the 3-D work and it slowly grew from there. I don’t think I ever found my style, I think we are sort of finding each other after several years of trial and error and many more years of the same down the road.”

We have been enjoying Chris’s work and following it for some time now and look forward to his future endeavours. To view more of his inspiring work check out his online portfolio.