Australia 2006
Laurent 'Beet' Beauvallet ( France, 1974 ) is a freelance artist. He creates concept art for the entertainement industry, illustrations and book covers for publishing companies ( Hachette, Seuil )

Straight out of a year at the beaux-arts, he got his first job in the videogame industry with French developer Kalisto ; he notably contributed game concept, concept art, in-game art, character design, 3D characters on titles such as "Nightmare creatures", an international best-seller on the original Playstation.
He moved to England, and honed his skills while working for Psygnosis and Core-Design. As a concept artist, he joined Toby Gard's Confounding Factor to work on the game "Galleon".

He started working as a freelance illustrateur in 1999 ; He quickly produced illustrations for many collectable card / role-playing games, on such titles as "Legend of the Five Rings", "Everquest", "Warhammer40K" or "Star Wars".

He has since painted hundreds of images for every major companies of the Role-playing world (Wizards of the Coast) and is often commissioned to create concept and production art by leading videogame companies such as Ubisoft or Midway, on next-generation projects like Ninja theory's "Heavenly Sword".

His images are seen in "Spectrum, The Best in Contemporary Fantasy Art", in industry magazines, on cover of books and videogames.

He likes to travel and bike, to trek and climb, and these peregrinations often leads to the works he presents on his blog. He currently lives in Bordeaux, France.

An experienced character and creature designer, he use his strong painting skills to create all kind of concept and production images.


--- Games and Projects -partial list
Anachronism, Blacksite :Area 51, Cold Fear, Doomtown, Eberron, Everquest, Forgotten Realms, Galleon, Heavenly Sword, Heavy Metal Magazine, Legend of the five rings ( Gold Edition, An Ony's Fury, Dark Alliances, Fall of Otosan Uchi. Diamond Edition, Heaven & Earth, Dawn of the Empire, Web of Lies, Wrath of the Emperor, Code of Bushido, Lotus Edition ) Nightmare creatures I & II, Star Wars, Terminator, Warhammer and 40K, Warlord, 7th Sea ...

--- Jobs and Clients -partial list

Albin Michel, Alderac Entertainment Group, Core Design, Confounding factor, Darkworks, Flammarion / J'ai lu, Le Livre de Poche, Les editions l'Atalante, Intervista, Hachette, Les editions Le Seuil, In-Fusio, Just add Monsters / Ninja Theory, Kalisto, Midway, Mindscape, Mnemos, Publicis Events, Perfect Technologies, Psygnosis / Sony, Paizo publishing, Points Fantasy, Points Poetry, Quantic Dream, Studio Canal, Triking Games, TVS, UbiSoft, Wizards of the Coast, White wolf, Xilam ...


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