Senior Art Director, Visual Designer and Concept Artist (Los Angeles)

Alex Laurant‘s career spans nearly two decades of entertainment media: primarily feature films and games but also including TV commercials, motion graphics, interactive multimedia, theatrical scenic design, print illustration & graphic design.

Alex has enjoyed working with some of the industry’s most prominent creative directors, visual effects supervisors and game development teams providing visual design leadership, for large and small projects, from conceptual development through all phases of production. As a veteran senior visual effects art director and concept designer at Industrial Light & Magic he worked on numerous features including The Empire Strikes Back – Special Edition, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, The Mummy, Mission to Mars, Peter Pan, and The Day After Tomorrow. Alex was co-nominated for Best Visual Effects Art Direction by the Visual Effects Society for his work on Minority Report (with Production Designer Alex McDowell).

On the interactive side he worked for Electronic Arts’ London studio on the Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fireconsole game, for Germany’s Crytek studios on their award-winningCrysis and for LucasArts developing an original, new franchise. Now consulting under the banner of his company StudioLXL in Northern California, he has recently provided conceptual design forWarner Brothers’ 2011 blockbuster, Green Lantern, VFX art direction for Robert Redford’s upcoming Civil War drama, The Conspirator, as well as new, unannounced game, feature film and museum projects.

Alex has given numerous lectures and workshops worldwide on visual storytelling, entertainment media and visual effects design and processes. He is a member of the A.D.G. (Art Directors Guild), the V.E.S. (Visual Effects Society), the A.I.A.S. (Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences) and serves on the advisory committee of the 5D Immersive Design Conference.