ZHANG BO
Founder & CEO
Concept art director, storyboard supervisor, art director; animation director.
Professor at Communication University of China; Guest professor at CAFA International College.
Commissioner at China film art certification Academy.
Executive deputy director of the CG Art Committee in China Film Art Direction Academy.
Senior researcher at CCAC CG Academy of Arts, China.
Judge at China Golden Rooster Film Festival – Film market Project.
Best known for:
Sci-fi bluckbuster "The Wandering Earth1" , conceptual art director and storyboard supervisor
IDEOMOTOR‘s own animated short movie “Ruthless Blade” , director
Other work:
Hidden Man, Great Wall, Once Upon a Time, The Sun Also Rises, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Ironman 3,
Dragon Keeper, My Old Classmate, Painted Skin 2,The man with iron fists, etc
Main Awards:
The Wandering Earth1 : Best film awards at China Film Golden Rooster Awards and The 27th Huading Awards
Animated film Don’t Expect Praises: nomination for Crystal Bear for Best Film at the 63rd Berlin Film Festival
NICOLAS NEMIRI
Lead Conceptual Artist
Well-known illustrator, manga artist, Superani artist.
Born in France, Nicolas studied at European School of Visual Arts for four years, after two years as fashion and manga illustrator.
He became known to the French public with the comics "Je suis morte” written by Jean David Morvan. Their collaboration continued with two kids books, ‘The Hyper L’Hippo’ and ‘Annie zoo’ , and later with the graphic novel, Kuro Kuma. Nicolas also contributed to numerous collective comics (Edge II, Interfaces I and II, Bob Dylan Revisited, Les Autres Gen, etc).
Nicolas moved to China in 2015 and has been working in movie industry as a concept artist, while continuing his comic career.
He joined Ideomotor in 2019, and lead the concept design of Ideomotor’s first original short movie, Ruthless Blade, which was released on Bilibili.com in Dec.2023, and was highly praised by audience.
CHEN LIANQI
Concept art Supervisor
Graduated from Communication University of China, Chen
Lianqi holds over 8 years experience in concept design, comic book design. He has worked on multiple top games in China.
Main projects:
Animated film Jinling Cat, Class lamp, Shadow Diver; Animated series Left-hand Layup, Infinite World; TV series Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, as well as several League of Legends CG projects, etc. He is art director of Ideomotor’s animated short movie Ruthless Blade.
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