CONCEPT ART

This is a hub for the art made during production. Storyboards, turnarounds, character designs, background art, and pre-rendered animation. Not every artist involved in the film is able to share their work, due to NDAs and contracts. All the art here has been archived from the artists' websites and portfolios, or from the DVD extras.

This list contains links to the sites and portfolios of the artists featured here.

NatM (2006)

Ellen Freund // Thom Schillinger

NatM:BotS (2009)

Charmaine Husum // Mike Thomas // Joel Venti // Milena Zdravkovic

NatM:SotT (2014)

Michael Cawood // Joe Lederer // Martin Whist

Night at the Museum
Ellen Freund: Prop Master

Thom Schillinger: Print and AV Advertising Thom Schillinger worked on both NatM and BotS. This dropdown has his work for NatM.

Battle of the Smithsonian
Charmaine Husum: Prop Design

Thom Schillinger: Print and AV Advertising Thom Schillinger worked on both NatM and BotS. This dropdown has his work for BotS.

Mike Thomas: Packaging and Displays

Joel Venti: Storyboards

Milena Zdravkovic: Set Design and Preliminaries

Secret of the Tomb
Michael Cawood: Concept Art, Previs, Postvis

Concept art was archived from the Secret of the Tomb DVD.

"We did some Previsualization for a few sequences in Night at the Museum 3. One of the most interesting challenges was the snake sequence. I rigged the main nine headed snake and created all the custom features to make it work. Overall this was a refreshing change from other projects as we had the opportunity to do comedy. Creature movements didn't have to be too realistic, being funny with some believabilty was the priority."

"After the Previsualisation phase, we moved into Postvis. I animated most of the shots above, rigged the nine headed snake and a few of the other creatures. For the most part I've presented the comped versions of the shots as that's how they were designed to be seen, but most of the compositing was done by a dedicated crew. There are some effects I did, like the stars that form the lion, but most other effects were created by the compositors."
Martin Whist: Photography, Concept Art

Photography

Concept Art

Kahmunrah Rises Again
All the concept art for KRA has been moved to its own page!

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