Stephanie Lostimolo is one of the premier digital colorists in the US and a veteran of George Lucas's JAK Films Art Department, where she worked with the core creative team as an artist and colorist on Star Wars: Episode III.
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5 Z9 ?% {9 b+ LRaised by a nature lover and an engineer, Stephanie has always been fascinated by things both colorful and technical, tinkering with primitive digital paint programs since she was twelve years old. Both her goals and the technology evolved considerably over the next ten years as she aggressively honed her artistic and computer skills.
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+ s% @: W; ?4 H/ E, `In 2001 during production of "The Wildlife of Star Wars" by Star Wars Concept Artist Terryl Whitlatch, Stephanie was asked to join Terryl as a colorist on the book. In the fall of 2003, at the encouragement of Terryl, Imaginosis President Robert Gould asked Stephanie to join the art team on Terryl's latest book, "The Katurran Odyssey" as a digital colorist. As this method of coloring was new to Terryl who traditionally used designer markers, Stephanie provided her with invaluable personal instruction on the fundamentals of the digital coloring process and techniques using Photoshop. Working together with exceptional creativity and rapport, Terryl and Stephanie's resultant color work brings the world of The Katurran Odyssey to vivid life and establishes a new standard for digital coloring of illustrated books. As a valued member of the creative team at Imaginosis, Stephanie will be contributing to future Katurran projects as well as developing and producing projects of her own.
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2 j, J2 o5 Q. n, y3 ?0 A- ?7 H PStephanie Lostimolo是美国首席数字画家并且和乔治卢卡斯JAK电影艺术部的退休者, 她作为一名色彩画家在星战前传III中与创造性的核心团队合作。
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在2001 年星战概念艺术家 Terryl Whitlatch 的 " 星战野生植物 "制作期间，Stephanie被要求参加Terryl书中关于一个画家的部分。 2003 年秋，在 Terryl 的鼓励下， Imaginosis会长 Robert Gould 要求Stephanie作为数字艺术家参加Terryl的最近出版书籍" The Katurran Odyssey "的制作团队。 如用一种方法把新的色彩使用到Terryl的传统设计中,Stephanie提供了无价的关于如何使用Photoshop加工和使用数字色彩的原理。 在独特的创造力和紧密工作中， Terryl 和Stephanie关于色彩的工作成果使Katurran Odyssey的世界具有了生动得生命力，并且建立了插画书籍中数字色彩的新标准。 身为 Imaginosis具有创造力团队中一名重要成员，Stephanie自己也将投身于future Katurran 项目的发展和创造中。
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From earliest childhood, animals captured my imagination and heart. Due to my Grandfather, horses always played a dynamic part in my life. My parents took my sister and I on countless expeditions to the Zoo and natural history museums, and besides horses, an endless variety of pets--cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, lizards, the list goes on--paraded through my life.
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It's this love of, and fascination with, animals--the sheer artistry of their myriad forms, from the sublime to the humorous, their incredible design in beauty and anatomy down to the unique idiosyncratic personalities of each individual within any given species--that has forever transfixed and fired my imagination.
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Upon this foundation, I was tantalized by the creation of a world, in which animals interacted as peoples, where they lived, breathed, and had their being.
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# S- @( D1 ?$ P' Q5 Y3 T4 zIt would be a world much like this one, with ongoing histories of kingdoms and principalities, and of the humble, the proud, and the indifferent individuals therein. And all this world would be yet contained within, and dependent upon, a higher, infinitely transcendent, and personal Reality.
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I owe much to those who have gone before me, and whose legacies have had profound impact upon my life. All of them engaged in the construction of complex worlds and universes in which creatures of diverse forms interacted as a matter of course.
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" r- h/ H. ~1 e, m, jEarly on, it was Beatrix Potter, in her rural England where Puddle-ducks conversed freely with rabbits and foxes. Dr. Suess's and Frank L. Baum's absurd worlds of Who-ville and Emerald Cities. Felix Salten and a young deer's biography of life in an European forest, who grasps the existence of God. Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a horse who perseveres through harrowing trials, yet never loses faith in the Creator.
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And then, it was C.S. Lewis, his Narnia, and other writings. J.R.R. Tolkien, from the grandeur of Middle Earth to the gentle Leaf by Niggle. The fantastical novels of Charles Williams also made their impact. These three especially dealt in world-building, with solid foundations and histories, but also eternal futures, and cradled within a higher Spiritual Reality.
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; q/ o, c+ v% S. S7 Z从最早的孩童时期时，动物就占据了我的大脑和内心。由于我的祖父，马始终成为影响我生活的动力。我的父母带着姐姐和我去过数不尽的动物园和自然历史博物馆，除了马之外，动物照片上那些无尽的品种——猫、狗、兔子、鸟、蜥蜴等等，都曾在我的生活中存在过。
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; H( t& n$ k; n随着对这些动物的爱和迷恋——它们那无尽纯粹的艺术气质，从严肃到幽默，任何种类中的每一个个体都有着令人难以置信的独特构造和独一无二的特殊性格。那些已经永远的贯穿和燃烧于我的想象空间中。
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# K5 K# I# y3 o9 M" h在这一基础之上，我被这个世界的创造物所感染：那些动物与人的相互影响是什么,他们住在哪儿，他们如何呼吸,还有他们的生命如何存在….
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也许有许多像这样的一个世界，藉由国王和公国继续着他们的历史，还有臣民，贵族，和其他人在那里。而且这一世界的所有东西仍被包含在内，在此之上，有着更高等，更卓越和独立的个体。
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* M9 r) _0 n# s- L- `0 X我感激那些祖先们，他们留下的遗产深刻影响着我的生活。他们以多样化的形态建造着复杂的世界和世间万物。
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其间的相互作用自不必说。
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在早期，是比阿特丽克斯的制陶工人，在她英国乡下的水塘中—-鸭子自由地和兔子还有狐狸交谈。Suess博士和Frank L.Baum的荒诞世界是一个清新翠绿的城邦。Felix Salten 和一匹小鹿在一座欧洲森林中的生活传记，阐述了上帝的存在。黑美人Anna Sewell，和一匹马坚持承受了痛苦的考验，却从未对造物主失去信心。
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0 o4 I o/ V7 e9 J9 u* r2 e! s尔后，是<C.S. Lewis>，<his Narnia>, 还有其他作品J.R.R. Tolkien，从宏伟的地球中心到繁琐的温热带树叶。Charles Williams的幻想小说也对他们造成了影响。这三本书特别阐述了世界建筑，藉由坚实的基础和历史纪录，也永远的存在于未来中了，并且成为更高精神实体的摇篮。
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